Homemade Playdough Recipe
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Easy to make at home, and fun for kids of all ages. Here’s how to make your own non-toxic toy with custom colors by adding just a little food coloring or fruit juice, for hours of creative play with the kids!
Baking Soda Crafts
Playdough Recipe
(how to make homemade playdough)
2 cups baking soda
1 1/2 cups water
1 cup cornstarch
Mix with a fork until smooth. Boil over medium heat until thick. Spoon onto plate or wax paper.
variation: replace a little water with beet, spinach, grape or carrot juice to color
*for children aged 2 years or older and require adult supervision at all times.
I‘ve been having so much fun learning about all the uses for baking soda! I knew it had a lot of uses, but this has really been eye opening!
Baking Soda Uses
Some of my favorite uses I read from your comments are:
- I love it for scrubbing my cast-iron grill pan. ~ Catherine @ Make Myself at Home
Baking soda is perfect for the pet owner… from giving a dry bath by sprinkling with baking soda…. just rub it in, then brush out the baking soda…. to deodorizing bedding by sprinkling the bedding with baking soda, letting the baking soda stand for 15 minutes, and vacuuming it up. I doubt my house would smell as nice without baking soda ~ Shelle Pennington
I make a baking soda and water paste then apply it to annoying mosquito bites that won’t stop itching. ~ Julie T
- My favorite is for washing my hair! ~bridget {bake at 350}
- Baking soda is a great cleaner for oxidized silver (I mean real silver metal dishes). Boil in a large pot of water to which torn aluminum foil is added. Add baking soda. Watch the black marks disappear and dishes look like polished and new. ~ Champa
- My favorite is to use it to clean pots I’ve scorched. I just simmer a bit of baking soda and water in the burned pot, let it sit and it usually takes the burned right off! ~ sweetsugarbelle
- I use it to clean the battery or my car. ~Staci A
- Restore stiff brushes by boiling them in a solution of 1/2 gallon of water, 1/4 cup of vinegar, and a cup of baking soda. ~ Tom
- Every time we have a potty stain on the floor or a bed we clean it first with a vinegar solution and then let the baking soda sit to soak up the moisture and deodorize/sanitize. ~ Jen
- I used to have “oil” fires in my kitchen just about everyday when I was a teenager. My mom always kept boxes of Arm & Hammer baking soda handy so I could put out my fires easily! ~ Kristen
- It’s great as a mild facial scrub ~ Jamie, My Baking Addiction
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I used baking soda all the time when baking.
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I would so love to win the gift card! =] This week I used baking soda to make snickerdoodle cookies for my bible study and coworkers. The cookies tasted soooo good!
Volcano, volcano, volcano!!!! I teach preschool and we go through a lot of baking soda! Kids love it – I love it….can’t get any better than that!
I actually tried the baking soda and water paste on my son’s mosquito bite the other day and it worked like a charm!
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I recently used it to safely clear my clogged drains. A little volcano with the baking soda and some vinegar followed by some boiling water. I let my daughter assist with the first two steps. She thought it was a blast!!! 🙂
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I like this recipe for banana nut bread: 1 1/4 c flour, 1/2 c shortening, 1 c sugar, 3 bananas, 2 eggs, 1 tsp. baking soda, 1/2 c chopped nuts, and a splash of vanilla. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.
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The last thing I made using baking soda was a batch of chocolate chip cookies for my husband.
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I use Arm and Hammer for baking. I also use it for cleaning the inside of oven door and coffee pot.
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I just got finished with using the Baking Soda to strip out the wax build up on my hair. I use it a lot of ways. Love it in my fridge and freezer and change it out each month!
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i am a fan already of you FB page. I use Baking Soda for cleaning my alum pans! Sometimes they will have a cloudy film and this shines them right back up.
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I made The Perfect Banana Muffin recipe this morning using baking soda . They’re great! The recipe is found here:
http://www.preparedpantry.com/Banana-Jumbo-Muffin-Recipe.htm
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Hand scrub when I’ve peeled a few to many jalapenos!
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I use baking soda and vinegar to clean my garbage disposal. Dump some in of both, let sit, turn on both water and disposal. Turn off disposal, let water run for a minute or so. Does wonders!
I just used it to bake Lemon Sugar Cookies!
plus many more reasons!
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I clean with baking soda all the time. My favorite is to mix it with lemon juice to clean stains on my counters or mix with vinegar to clean my drain.
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The last thing I used baking soda for was making cookies. I have never tried this version of playdough before, will have to try it soon!
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Just made cookies & muffins for my girl’s school lunch.
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I throw bakin soda down the garbage disposal to take care of odor.
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I use baking soda in making a solution to kill the skunk odor when my dog gets into it with that most dreaded beast.
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Baking soda and vinegar for a fun science trick!!!
I just made some more homemade carpet freshener with baking soda today 🙂
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Baking soda is my go to for so many things. Of course baking cookies is one of my favs.
baking soda in smelly shoes!
I used baking soda to make chocolate chip cookies.