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This first recipe comes courtesy of our mama J. She is a preschool teacher at Holladay Preschool in Salt Lake City and has perfected her very own playdoh recipe. This stuff is WAY better than the store bought version and can be stored for up to a month.

 

Homemade Playdoh Recipe:
5 cups water
2.5 cups salt
5 tbs alum or cream of tartar
5 tbs crisco oil
4 cups of flour
4 tbs of watercolor paint

Bring water to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in salt, alum, and oil. Stir in flour 1 cup at a time. Mix well. Add paint. You can also add Kool Aid, cinnamon, glitter or anything else you think would add to the color or smell of the dough!

This stuff is addicting… and just happens to be easily molded into any creepy or crawly thing you want. We chose to make witches fingers by adding candy corn to the end as a fingernail. As kids (and adults) we can’t get enough of this stuff – and there are only 3 ingredients in it!

 

Taffy Recipe:
1 cup of peanut butter
3/4 cup of honey
1 cup of powdered milk

Stir all ingredients together. Add more powdered milk if it is too sticky. Should be playdoh consistency. Store in the refrigerator. Shape into whatever you would like!

As you’ll notice we keep things really simple. We like to be festive but realize that there is only 24 hours in a day. So this one is super easy. We just bought some green glow sticks at the party store put them underneath some dry ice and voila! You have a big bowl of glowing green witches brew.