Sweet smelling play dough!

Analese's current issue of Highlights magazine has these instructions for making sweet smelling play dough. If you click on the photo and make it big, you can see the instructions.



First we took 2 cups of water, 2 tablespoons of oil and one cherry kool-aid unsweetened drink mix packet and mixed it together in a bowl:




Then we mixed together in a pot 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt, and 4 teaspoons of cream of tartar:






Then we dumped the bowl mixture into the pot mixture and stirred it all around:



Then I cooked the mixture over medium heat. I understand why this step number 4 is for adults. Besides the fact that the stove is involved, this step takes some serious muscle! It thickens up and gets very hard to stir. That is when you know it is ready. I plopped it out of the pot onto some wax paper to cool:



Then I kneaded it and it quickly became this smooth and awesome play-dough! The texture is just unsurpassed! You just don't get the same pleasing texture with store bought play dough. And this play dough smells awesome! It smells just like cherry kool-aid, and it has the most beautiful, vibrant color. And it is GREAT fun to squish in your hands! I'm telling you, Lee and I were revisiting childhood with this play dough! We gave Analese a rolling pin and some cutters and she had GREAT fun: