Gluten-Free Play Dough

Play-Doh has gluten and dyes in it that affect JJ and GracieGirl, even if they're just touching it and not eating it. (I could be wrong, but to my knowledge, the only person in this house who currently tries to eat Play-Doh is E!) Anyway, we make our own gluten-free play dough. I really dislike the smell of Play-Doh, so I love the homemade stuff almost as much as the kids do! Sometimes we add a couple drops of lemon or orange essential oil, but we usually just make the plain old, regular variety!

Gluten-Free Play Dough

½ cup rice flour
½ cup cornstarch
½ cup salt
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 cup water
1 teaspoon oil
Natural food coloring, if desired
Extra rice flour

Mix all ingredients, except additional rice flour, in a medium saucepan.
Cook and stir over low heat for several minutes, until it forms a ball. When cool,
knead well, adding additional rice flour, if needed, until dough is no longer sticky.

Store in a zippered plastic bag. I keep ours in the refrigerator.

JJ made pepperoni pizza and spaghetti with play dough. I think that E messed up the spaghetti before I could get a picture, but that pizza looks good enough to eat!