Digit’s Cyber-Dough Recipe
Digit's recipe for Cyber-Dough is easy to make, fun to play with, and it has Hacker stumped! The recipe tells exactly how much salt to use, but Hacker can’t figure out how much flour, water, and oil to add. Can your child help?
Before You Play
Food color may stain fingers and clothes. Your child should wear rubber gloves and an apron when mixing the colors. Also explain to your child that Digit’s Cyber-Dough is like clay and is not meant to be eaten. Keep any leftover dough in the refrigerator for up to a week. Make sure you have Digit’s Cyber-Dough printable on hand, so you and your child can see photo examples of the process.
Materials
Directions
Preheat your oven to 300 degrees. Remind your child about the importance of staying safe when the oven is in use.
Have your child mix the salt and flour. Add water very slowly, then the oil. Let her mush the mixture with her fingers until it feels like clay and makes a ball. Ask her, “How does the dough feel?” If dough is too sticky, she can add a little flour. If it’s too stiff, she can add a little water.
Break off about half of the dough and set it aside. Have your child add five drops of blue food color and one drop of green to the other half of the dough in the bowl. Work the color into the dough until smooth. The dough in the bowl will be used for Delete’s body.
Now, your child can shape Delete’s body. She’ll need four small cylinders for his arms and legs, one large cylinder for his body, and one small ball for the front of his head. If she wants to hang up Delete, bend a paperclip (see printable) and help your child stick the bottom into Delete’s back before the next step.
Use two half-toothpicks to attach the front of Delete’s head to his body.
Attach the arms and legs by pressing them onto the body.
From the uncolored dough that was set aside before, break off a piece the size of a golf ball. Break off two more pieces the size of marbles.
Have your child color the balls with food color. (See the printable to match ball sizes with appropriate food color.)
The yellow ball is for Delete’s collar and the two antenna bases. The orange ball is for the two antenna ends. The uncolored ball is for his eyes.
Attach the collar and eyes. Use toothpicks to attach each antenna to its base.
Adults only: Please bake Delete at 300º for 40 to 45 minutes or until dry. Let cool.
Have your child use a black marker to add eyeballs, mouth, buttons, and boots.
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