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The A to Z of the best art materials for children – free printable poster

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I’ll guide you through four weeks of beautiful and fun art projects that you can enjoy with your children. At home or at school, these process art projects will give you an interesting framework of activities that you can weave into your weeks, so your children are engaged, creating and enjoying themselves all through art. See more details of Art Spark here.

In this extract from my new book Nurture Art we’re looking at how to set up the best art materials for children, to encourage passion, playfulness and creativity. There are tips for great art materials on a budget, and a free printable poster of the A to Z of unusual things to make art with.

How to set up art supplies for childern to encourage creativity - includes art supplies on a budget and a free printable poster of the a to z of creative art supplies for kids

The best art materials for children

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Easy play dough recipe

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A classic, no cook play dough recipe that you can make in minutes, using ingredients from your kitchen cupboard. Here’s a step-by-step recipe, along with ideas for a whole year of play dough activities.

Perfect! An easy homemade play dough recipe

Easy play dough recipe 

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This video gives you everything you ever wanted to know about play dough: how to make homemade playdough with quick and easy recipes; the benefits of playdough for children; and lots of sensory play activities using play dough including playdough math activities, playdough literacy activities, and playdough fine motor skills activities.

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Nurturestore has lots of articles about fun play dough ideas but I though today I thought I’d get back to basics with a step-by-step easy play dough recipe.

It’s a super easy recipe and even if you’ve never tried making your own play dough before, follow these steps and you’ll be ready to enjoy some fantastic sensory play in minutes.

classic easy play dough recipe no cook

I’m going to show you my favourite no cook play dough recipe. There are many versions and variations of play dough available in our archive of play dough recipes but this is the one I use most often because it’s easy, quick and lasts really well.

lemon play dough

Step One: Take a large bowl and add:

:: 2 cups flour

:: 1 cup salt

:: 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

:: 2 tablespoons cream of tartar*.

easy no cook play dough recipe

Step Two: add in any extras such as:

:: glitter

:: spices

:: fragrance

play dough recipe

Step Three: boil the kettle and pour 1 1/2 cups of the water into your mixture.

Add in any food colouring at this stage so it mixes evenly through the dough.

quick homemade playdough recipe

Step Four: mix the ingredients together to form a dough and you are ready to play.

Play dough problems: solved

Play dough too crumbly? Add a little more oil.

Play dough too sticky? Add in a little more flour.

Want your play dough to last a long time? Wrap it up well in a plastic bag as soon as you’ve finished playing and your play dough could last for months.

* Not got all the ingredients? If you discover you have no cream of tartar, no problem – just leave it out. You can make a basic dough just by combining flour and water if that’s all you have. The dough won’t last but will give you a great day’s worth of play.

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