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3 minutes Liquid Dough
Use simple ingredients to create fun activities for your children. Hope you enjoy this tutorial!
Ingredients:
Flour
Water
Tempera Paste
How to Make Play Dough
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 ½ cups of water
- ½ pkt of fine salt
- 30gm of cream of tartar
- 2 table spoon cooking oil
- food colouring
1. Mix all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl with a hand whisk.
2. Make a well in the middle and slowly add water and mix well with hand whisk.
3. Add the cooking oil and food colouring and mix well.
4. Cook the batter in a pot or wok at a very low temperature, stirring all the time.
5. As the batter cooks it will harden to become a dough.The colour will change. 
6. Remove the dough from pot and knead while dough is hot for about 5 minutes.
7. Cover the dough with a cloth to cool before storing in a tight container.
8. Do not refrigerate dough.
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Mini Aquarium Adventure
Yet another idea to share for Art & Craft activities. Try our 3D Mini Aquarium Adventure. Just follow the guide below to complete this masterpiece.
Materials needed:
Tempera paste (blue/green, purple, red, yellow etc.), paint brush, 1 whole paper plate, 1 pre-cut paper plate, transparent sheet(s), pre-drawn fishes, stapler, silvery strings (optional) and glue (cellophone tape).
STEP 1: Paint the whole paper plate with either blue and green. Then, paint the pre-cut paper plate with some other colours. Leave it to dry.
STEP 2: An adult then paste the transparent sheet over the pre-cut paper plate.
STEP 3: Colour the fishes with crayons before pasting in onto the blue / green whole paper plate. Then, put in the silvery string (optional) to create an artificial moving waves.
STEP 4: Arrange both the whole and pre-cut paper plates together and staple around the edges to hold it together. You may add a rope etc. on the top of the mini aquarium to hang for wall decoration.
Finally, it will look something like this. Try it!
