It is very simple: just use dish soap and corn starch. Some people swear Dawn makes a better putty, I would believe that as I personally think Dawn is the king of soaps for power cleaning, but I had dollar store soap that worked just as well. Note the color of the soap will be the color of your putty in pastel version. Many say to use a 1:1 ratio, I cannot for sure tell you my exact measurements. I simply poured 1 cup of cornstarch and squeezed in soap until I got the texture I wanted.
Now, I put it in a container and let sit, and that was kinda a mistake. Two days later, it was more doughy than putty. But we took advantage of it, and played with dish soap dough!
Then after a while, I took a chance and decided to add more soap to see it would putty back up.
And sure enough it did! Like I said, this is a thicker putty than store bough which is what we needed. So I brought out the gems.
The goal of any activity is to have fun, but it is special when a activity requires more manipulating fine motor gestures than normal, and this is exactly what this provides. Therapy putty does the same; it requires manipulation and hand strengthening coordination that helps children learn.
We pressed down the gems, and then worked to get them out of the putty. This was of course just a lot of fun for Tegan. She also used a Popsicle stick to help pry them out. This was also a pretty easy activity to clean up, as I picked up the putty and crumbs that were left I wiped off with a wet rag-activating the soap so I could also say I cleaned off her table ;)
Tegan loves doughs of all kinds, but this putty kept her busy for an hour with playing with the cut outs and them gems. Defiantly a hit. I am still going to order the Therapy putty and write a review on the difference between it and our homemade version, so stay tuned!
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