Your kids will love this homemade putty just for them. We store therapy putty in magnetic spice jar containers or closed containers near our schooling area. Plus, it does a great job strengthening their hand muscles which are important to use now and as they grow.
Your kids will be enjoying this DIY thinking putty while they squeeze it, flatten it, stretch it, snap it, poke it or whatever else they want to do with it. The Putty Recipes we share here are for kids and adults are are a super easy way to create silly putty and Therapy Putty using common household ingredients. Creativity and endless amounts of inspiration will come from playing with this awesome homemade putty. Borax drops food color. Pour glue into bowl.
Add cornstarch in with glue and Mix. Add the food coloring and mix again. Studies have shown that if you like this, you will also love the following articles. I bet your kids had fun with this!
I have a playgroup that I would like to try the recipe on and there are about 18 children……. Hi my name is James and this recipe is a huge mess. Mine did too.. My kids really want to make putty but they did not like this… in the picture their hands are clean but that was not my experience. That sounds like fun! I appreciate the lack of Borax.
I have a special needs daughter who will love this! It is perfect for her sensory play! I love how easy it is to make! I used to play with silly putty all the time when I was a kid. I would suggest keeping adding corn starch a little at a time until it is the right consistency. Omg nothing my kids were exited and then they started crying.
This recipe did not work for me at all. I used Dawn dish soap and cornstarch. When more dry, it left powdery clumps or just residue on my fingers. Adding more soap made it sticky. I gave up. We used a clear-blue hand soap for our experiment.
Dawn soap might be too runny for this activity. At first, the putty will be quite sticky. At that point, we added a bit more cornstarch until it was just pliable enough to not stick to the fingers, but not so much that it dried out. Hope this helps! This recipe was outstanding and I was very pleased wit the outcome of my putty. God is good. I used dawn dish soap and it did not turn out well at all. Has anyone tried with regular hand soap like dial and gotten good results?
If you are using the blue dawn dish soap, let it settle a bit dusted in cornstarch if it is sticky. You can make your own putty any time of the year. All you have to do is change the color, maybe add a scent , and you can even pair it with a few fun books or figures to go with the theme. Of course, you can also just switch these out monthly for your children to use while homeschooling or doing homework. Putty is the perfect thing for your fidgeter.
If you prefer the candy corn look, you can head over here for the Candy Corn Putty Recipe. This putty turned out so pretty just as orange as a pumpkin and goes perfectly with our fall themes. Borax drops Food Color. Add cornstarch in with glue and Mix. Add the food coloring and mix again. I wanted an activity that would give us some interacting time, then keep him busy playing while I worked. This goop recipe is a lot of fun, but I thought it might be too messy unsupervised.
Then I spotted a two ingredient silly putty recipe, and was so excited to see it just used corn starch and dish soap , which we always have on hand. So we got out the ingredients and supplies, and Corban helped me measure what we needed.
It was delightful watching him intently measure and stir, then seeing his eyes light up as he kneaded the ingredients by hand and felt their texture change between his little fingers. It was 35 minutes before he called for me saying he was done playing. I introduced Larkin to homemade silly putty at the same age Corban was when he first made it. We also upped our silly putty recipe game a bit with adding color and making it a little silkier.
This homemade silly putty recipe only requires 2 ingredients: corn starch and dish soap. But there are a couple optional ingredients to add.
If you want to make your silly putty colorful, you will also want to mix in some food coloring. We prefer an environmentally friendly dish soap free of fragrances and dyes. We use Johnson and Johnson but any brand will work. Start by dumping cornstarch into a large bowl. If you want to measure you can use one cup of cornstarch for this larger batch silly putty recipe.
I let her just dump cornstarch in and eyeballed the amounts. Begin mixing the cornstarch and dish soap together.
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