White Flour Clay Recipe: Kids Crafts

This flour clay recipe is a cooking recipe that adults will need to make for kids. Once the flour clay is cooled, kids can make all sorts of figurines, shapes, and craft projects.

The resulting clay will be white and pliable. It will also be white. Add food coloring if you already know which project you will be making.

Recipe Yields

This recipe makes enough for two creative kids.

Ingredients

The ingredients for the flower clay recipe is pretty basic. If you don't already have these craft recipe staples on hand, it is a good idea to purchase them.

1 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 teaspoons inexpensive vegetable oil, like a canola oil or corn oil
1 cup of table salt
2 cups of tap water
2 cups of white flour

Materials

In addition to the ingredients for the flour clay recipe you will also need the following materials:

a mixing bowl
measuring cups
measuring spoons
a pan
a wooden spoon
waxed paper

Gather all of the materials you will need, including one parent for cooking the flour clay.

Kids Prepare!

Kids can gather all of the ingredients and the materials needed to mak the recipe.

Next, measure out the flour and put in a bowl.

Note: The ingredients could be placed directly in the pan, if an adult is doing the entire process. The reason to mix the ingredients in the bowl is to encourage a child to measure the ingredients, and to be involved in the flour clay making process.

Measure and add the cream of tartar to the flour. It is easier to add the dry ingredients first.

Next, measure the salt. Notice how much heavier the salt feels in the measuring cup than the flour did. Add the salt to the recipe.

Now for the liquid ingredients. Add one cup of water to the dry mix.

Finally, add the vegetable oil. Stir.

Tip: Do not add the food coloring! That's for later.

Cook it Up

After the ingredients are mixed together, scoop the mixture into the pan. This is where an adult should take over.

The flour clay mixture needs to be heated up on medium heat. The mixture needs to be stirred continuously so it does not stick to the bottom of the pan. Cook until the ingredients hold together, into a workable clay substance.