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How Do I Make Play Dough- Chocolate Shadow Play Dough

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How Do I Make Play Dough- Chocolate Shadow Play Dough

Groundhog’s  Day is right around the corner and I thought it would be fun to make Chocolate Shadow cookies with JDaniel .  It has always been fun  to do an activity that ties to holiday. Chocolate Shadow cookies tie to the whole groundhog sees his shadow tradition. 
I took out my ancient Pillsbury cookie cookbook and searched for the recipe. I didn’t remember until I started reading over the recipe for them that they contained peanut butter. My son doesn’t like anything with peanut butter in it. Rather then make cookies only my husband and I would eat I thought that maybe we could make chocolate shadow play dough instead. It doesn’t  need peanut butter and it is fun to knead it into dough. Just how do I make play dough?

How do I Make Play Dough for Groundhog’s Day

Well, we start by hunting and gathering around the kitchen. JDaniel loves to help gather together all the ingredients.

 
 
Chocolate Shadow Play Dough
 
 
1 cup of water
3 cups of flour ( We add a little at a time and sometimes don’t need 3 cups.)
1 1/2 cups of salt
1/4 cup of vegetable oil
1/2 cup of cocoa
We mix all of the ingredients except the cocoa together adding the flour a little at a time. We tend to use a big bowl when mixing. It helps to keep the ingredients in a bowl.  We also tend to mix and knead the ingredients together with our hands. It is very relaxing and feels great on our hands.

Once the mixture is the right texture and isn’t sticky, we add the cocoa. I like the marbleized effect that we get by not adding it in with the other ingredients. It looks like the dough has a shadow.
How Do I Make Play Dough- Chocolate Shadow Play Dough

Later in the day we had one of the little boys next door come over to play. I took out our animal cookie cutters. We ended up with all kinds of chocolate shadow creatures. I believe there were even a couple of groundhogs.

Did you already know how to make play dough?

This post is linked to Alphabe Thursday.
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  6. Cool idea! I’ve made play-doh recipes with my kids before and they always have fun, but I’ve never tried this one. I’ll add it to our recipe list now, thanks for sharing 🙂

  9. How fun for the kids! I made play dough for my kids and then for my granddaughter — I think my recipe might have been a bit different though… I haven’t made it in years so I don’t remember!

  12. I bet it smells good with the cocoa powder!My complaint with most play dough type things is that they smell so yucky. This would certainly solve that issue! Awesome!

  16. Wohoo! Copy pasted and to be printed 🙂 Can’t wait to do this with my little girl. Thank you for sharing.

    Hugs,
    Scudds

  21. When my kids were little, I used a different recipe for play dough that you cook. Texture is very much like the bought play dough, and keeps well for quite awhile. 1 cup flour, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup salt, 2 tsp. cream of tarter, 1 tbsp cooking oil, food coloring and flavoring optional. Mix dry ingredients in heavy metal saucepan. Add oil and water. Cook THREE minutes on medium/high setting or until mix pulls away from side of pan. Knead – Mixture will appear lumpy and will be quite warm to touch. Store in air tight containers – in or out of refrigerator. Keeps several weeks.

  22. Hey, I like to play with play dough too:) Was thinking that maybe this would be a good recipe for my 2 daughters, who don’t like that normal Play-doh getting into everything! Thanks!

  23. Wow! I’ve never heard of shadow dough but I love the idea!

    I bet it smells delicious, too!

    Thanks for a klever link! Could you find a groundhog cookie cutter?

    A+

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