By Holly Sosa
I love play dough recipes and experimenting with different textures, smells, and mediums to create a fun sensory activity with my kiddos. During the summer, we try a new rceipe nearly every week and this week, I wanted to try out creating Aloe Play Dough using some aloe vera we had on hand. This two ingredient recipe was a hit and smelled so good! For me, aloe is cool to the touch and playing with the dough I could feel the coolness of it as I kneaded it through my hands. The kiddos loved it too and used forks to create imaginary recipes with their portion of the dough.
SUPPLIES
- aloe vera (2 parts)
- corn starch (3 parts)
With two ingredients, this recipe is pretty simple and self explanatory, but it can also be intimidating to get the consistency right. Start by pouring your aloe into a large bowl.
And then add in corn starch. For every two parts of aloe, you’ll add three parts of corn starch. So if you have two cups of aloe, you need three cups of corn starch.
The measurements are really give or take and in my case I needed even more corn starch. This is still too thin.
Just keep adding and stirring until your dough forms. Then go at it with your hands to mix everything together.
The dough is a pretty pastel green color and so much fun to move through your hands.
It has a slight cooling sensation and molds around almost exactly like store bought play dough. You can use cookie cutters and other kitchen tools with it to create whatever your imagination desires. My little girl loved playing with this.
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