Purple Playdough

Today at Mabel's request we made purple playdough. There are a number of homemade recipes out there; this is the one we use and it works well every time.  It makes a nice, smooth, pliable dough that is not sticky and smells great!
We stirred:
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup salt
2 teaspoons cream of tartar (this helps the playdough last longer) and a box of grape Jello into a pot and added:
1 cup water and
1 tablespoon oil
combine over medium high heat (careful not to burn) and stir the dough until it starts to pull away from the sides of the pot and form a ball.
When cool enough to handle, knead until smooth and store in an airtight container when you are done creating.
Check out this site for some free printable playdough mats you can print and laminate.  Head on over to Mental floss for 10 fun facts about playdough!  Do you remember Play-doh Drill and Fill?!!