Clay-Doh project to Mold, and paint: Turns Out All Glues are NOT the Same

I found this great craft idea to make a play doh that you can stir into a dough and then mold or use cookie cutters to shape it and then it dries hard.

I went digging for some information on glues, after all I only had Elmer's white school glue at home. I became fascinated reading an article on how all these glues are not the same.

The article specifically lists that you should use PVA glue. I googled some search terms and "if Elmers School Glue is PVA glue." It is NOT. Elmer's adds all sorts of stuff to its glue causing it not to dry the same and have the same properties as PVA glue. If you want a pretty simple explanation on glues this article is great (wood/PVA glue, gorilla glues/epoxies, etc).

I only blogged about this "glue article" because it really is interesting stuff, especially when you want projects NOT to fail, unlike the one I blogged about here! And I believe in keeping informed on changing advice, and learning new things everyday, I blogged about the importance in Keeping up with said changing advice here.




Homemade White Clay: Why we need to Fail with our kids, a photo by areyousureaboutthatblog on Flickr.
Project Fail, White Clay Dough