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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | Rhymes    Playdough activity ideas    Adding theme, focus and loose media to sensory dough activities    Lavender's blue dilly dilly .. Lavenders Green. When I am King dilly dilly .. You shall be queen Make your own Lavender scented playdough and create a 3D sensory play zone! Essential lavender oil should be avoided by women in their first trimester of pregnancy. Please feel free to use these slips to invite feedback on using lavender oil in your setting.     Making scented dough Resources needed 1 cup of  Plain flour ½ cup of Salt ¾ Cup Water 1 tsp Cream of tartar 1 Tablespoon lavender oil - or olive oil if using lavender scendted moisturising cream. ~~~~~~~~~~~        Food colouring        Hand or other moisturising cream.       Lavender oil feedback slips blank - prefilled Lavender blue poster playdough sheet  laminate and build up the image with scented dough buds..        To make the playdough     Use the same mug / cup to measure out the flour, salt and water.     Place these in a saucepan along with the cream of tartar, olive/lavender oil and food colouring      Cook the mixture over a medium heat until it forms a dough and begins to leave the sides of   the saucepan cleanly.   Turn out and allow to cool.   Add a prefered amount of moisturising cream and knead until smooth.     Lavenders Blue Dilly Dilly ~ traditional nursery rhyme on wikipedia Lavender's Blue dilly dilly Lavenders Green. When I am King dilly dilly .. You shall be queen For more historic and versions of this rhyme please visit the forum  - lavender rhyme   Our age related, sensory playdough activities  :)   All new activity ideas for dough are being added to playdough-activities.com