Flour power

Unlimited fun is at your fingertips with endless variations on a homemade plaything suggested by Meg Jones What shall we do today? As Homer Simpson might reply, 'Doh!' For many generations one of the most absorbing play materials for children in the home has been off-cuts of pastry at the end of a baking session. Nowadays we have a choice of bought playdough, plasticine, clay or modelling materials. But part of the fun is actually making the dough, and the possible variations are much wider when you do it yourself.