* Here is a great clay recipe.   I make this up at home and it keeps nicely overnight in a baggie. It is so soft and pliable and dries well !! We will be using this for our hand prints.   CREATIVE CLAY    1 C.  Cornstarch                   1C.   Baking Soda  1¼C.  Cold Water Saucepan and spoon Mix all the ingredients in a saucepan over meduim heat. Stir constantly until it looks like mashed potatoes (and it will !!). Cool on a plate until you can roll it with your hands. You can cut into shapes. Let it dry for about 2 days. Paint and finish as you like. * Doughy Paint Materials: 1/4 cup flour 1/4 cup salt 1/4 cup water 2 Tbls. Tempera powder Plastic squeeze bottle What to Do: Mix all ingredients together. Pour into plastic squeeze bottles. Almost-Oil Soap Paint Materials: 1 Tbls Powdered tempera 1 Tbls. Dishwashing soap Paintbrush What to Do: Mix tempera and soap together until evenly blended. Bread Crumb Dough Materials: 3 slices white bread 1-3 tsp. Glue ½ tsp. Liquid detergent or 1 tsp. Glycerin What to Do: Remove bread crusts. Crumble bread into tiny crumbs-tearing it apart with your hands. Put into mixing bowl. Add glycerin/detergent and 1 Tbls. Of glue. Mix well with your hands. Add more glue if it is needed to hold the dough together. Gather the mixture together and knead-the more you knead the less sticky it will be. Let finished art air dry on wax paper. Turn from time to time so they don't stick to the paper. ______________________________________________________________________________ Colored Salt (2) Materials: Salt Colored Sidewalk Chalk Paper Container with lid What to Do: Pour salt on paper. Rub chalk over the salt. The more you rub the deeper the color salt. Pour into containers. Repeat for each color. Eggshell Crayons Materials: Crayon Stubs (paper removed) empty eggshells (halved or large hole in top of egg) can(set in pan partially filled with hot water What to Do: Drop crayon stubs into can. Put can in pan of hot water. Melt until squishy with little chunks floating. Pour into egg shells-in a egg carton-fill to top. Let cool and harden. Peel away eggshell. Color. Homemade Paper Materials: Newspapers Bucket Water Wire whisk 3 Tbls. Cornstarch 1 cup water measuring spoons Piece of screen about 6" across rolling pin Plastic wrap What to Do: Tear newspaper into small pieces, filling bucket half full. Add water, wetting paper pieces throughly. Let stand 2 hours. Beat mixture into a creamy pulp with wire mix. Dissolve cornstarch in water. Add cornstarch to pulp and mix again. Submerge piece of screen in pulp and pull it out. Repeat until screen has a 1/8" thick layer of pulp. Spread out some sheets of newspaper. Cover screen with plastic wrap. Press out excess water with rolling pin. Set screen up so it can dry. When dry gently peel recycled paper from screen. Use as a decorative piece of paper. Sand Dough Materials: 1 cup sand ½ cup cornstarch 1 tsp cream of tartar 3/4 cup hot water What to Do: Mix sand, cornstarch and cream of tartar in an old saucepan.  Add hot water.  Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture is very thick and can't be stirred further.  Cool slightly and mold into various shapes use plastic molds or let children create their own designs.  Allow to dry.  Paint if desired. (Store left overs in airtight container.) What a fun way to make permanent sand castles for your sand table (with those sand castle/beach plastic pail sets).  Add some plastic people figures and instant kingdom! Making Paper Materials: Colored Scrap Paper Blender Water Newspaper Screen What to Do: Sort the pieces of scrap paper by color. Have the children rip the paper into tiny pieces, making piles of the same color. Soak the pieces in water overnight. Get a blender. Scoop some bits of wet paper and water into the blender. There should be enough water in the blender to cover the paper. Blend the paper and water until it makes a pulp consistency. Get a piece of screen and place it in the middle of an open newspaper. Scoop some of the pulp out and spread it onto the screen. Close the newspaper so that the screen and pulp are sandwiched in the middle of  it. Try to keep the screen side on top.  Have the children jump on the newspaper to squeeze out the water.(It's a good idea to have a towel underneath them!) Open the newspaper and remove the screen. Let the pulp sit overnight to dry. It should be on the wet, open newspaper. By the next day, it should be dry. Carefully remove it from the newspaper. * * Exported from MasterCook * Best Homemade Playing Dough Recipe By : Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Kids Fun Stuff Non-Food Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup salt 1 cup water 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 drop food coloring Mix all ingredients in a pan. Heat over medium to low heat for 3-5 minutes. Store in an airtight container or in locking plastic bags. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Exported from MasterCook * Body Paints Recipe By : Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Kids Fun Stuff Non-Food Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- 2 cups Non-irritating baby shampoo WARNING: Non-Edible powdered tempra paints Divide the shampoo into two or more portions (depending on number of children who will playing). Stir in enough tempra paints to make a medium-density color. Outside: The children can smooth this onto their bodies, lathering to make shapes and designs. This comes off easily by running through the sprinklers. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Exported from MasterCook * Bubbles #1 Recipe By : Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Kids Fun Stuff Non-Food Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- 1/4 cup liquid dish detergent 1/2 cup water few drops of food coloring 1 teaspoon sugar Mix up and have fun! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Exported from MasterCook * Bubbles #2 Recipe By : Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Kids Fun Stuff Non-Food Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- 1/2 cup liquid detergent few drops of salad oil 2 tablespoons water few drops of food coloring Mix up and have a ball! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Exported from MasterCook * Bubbles #3 Recipe By : Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Kids Fun Stuff Non-Food Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- 1/2 cup Dawn Liquid Dish soap 3 tablespoons glyercin 1/2 gallon water Gently mix, trying to avoid making bubbles on the surface. The less bubbles on the surface of the mixture, the stronger the bubbles will be. Different sized circular objects (even 6-pack plastic rings) make for great bubble fun! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Exported from MasterCook * Clean Mud Recipe By : Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Kids Fun Stuff Non-Food Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- 6 Rolls Tiolet paper -- unroll; tear apart 1 1/2 cups Borax 2 small bars Ivory Soap (shaved) -- use vegetable peeler Cover the tiolet paper with water and let sit for2 days. Drain then add: Mix well and let kids dig in! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Exported from MasterCook * Face Paints Recipe By : Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Non-Food Kids Fun Stuff Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- Ferry cmsj69b 6 teaspoons Corn starch -- divided 3 teaspoons Water -- divided 3 teaspoons Cold cream -- divided Food coloring 6 cup muffin tin In each cup of the muffin tin, put 1 teaspoon of cornstarch, 1/2 teaspoon each of cold cream and water. Add a different color food coloring to each cup. Mix well. Now you are ready. See if you can get your grown-up assistant to sit still and let you practice. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Exported from MasterCook * Finger Paints #1 Recipe By : Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Kids Fun Stuff Non-Food Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- 3 tablespoons sugar 2 cups water 1/2 cup corn starch liquid dish soap Food coloring 1.Mix together all the ingred. except food coloring and cook until it thickens. Stir constantly with a wire whisk. 2.Dived into smaller bow, and add different colors to each bowl. 3.Let the paint cool before letting the children paint - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Exported from MasterCook * Finger Paints #2 Recipe By : Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : Non-Food Kids Fun Stuff Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- food coloring 1/2 cup Flour 1/2 cup Salt Water* *1/2 to 3/4 cup, enough to make the consistancy of a thick gravy. Mix the food coloring into the water and then add the salt and flour. Mix well. Note: I bought the Tupperware small snack cups (the ones in red, blue, yellow and green) and then matched the colors. It makes a great gift and easy to find the color.