play dough

[chhotii]

Made home-made play dough today (on the stove). It's fairly straightforward, and you get a ton of it without having purchased a million little plastic containers.

I didn't know where our food coloring is filed, so I bought some at the grocery store I happened to be at today: Whole Foods. I was surprised they had it at all. The "all-natural" stuff is not as vibrantly colored as I think the usual food coloring would be, and it has a curious vegetable oder.

The distinction between "all-natural" and "artificial" puzzles me, kind of; I mean, everything originates as something in nature, and everything is processed to some extent, so where do you draw the line? I suspect that the manufacturer gets to define "natural", so really it means nothing.

Comments

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

if it's Dancing Deer's colours, I found them dull and they went off in colour and taste rather fast

[istemi.livejournal.com]

What's the recipe? I've done flour, salt, and water but it didn't need to be cooked.

[skreeky]

I'm trying to remember if I learned that from Captain Kangaroo or Mister Rogers.