Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-inspired chocolate play dough

I’ve recently re-discovered the magic of Roald Dahl thanks to my 5 year old and his voracious appetite for reading. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was always one of my favourites.

Nobody has seen Willy Wonka – or inside his amazing chocolate factory – for years. When he announces plans to invite the winners of five Golden Tickets hidden inside the wrappers of chocolate bars to visit his factory, the whole world is after those tickets!

Everyone is familiar with Charlie Bucket, the Golden Tickets, the Oompa-Loompas and Mr Willy Wonka and what could be better than making our own Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-inspired chocolate play dough.

Ingredients to make chocolate play dough:

150g plain flour
100g salt
2 tsp. cream of tartar
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
140ml water
50g cocoa powder

How to make chocolate play dough:

Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl, add the vegetable oil and slowly stir in the water until you have the desired consistency.

Use your hands to make sure everything has mixed together.

Then we divided our chocolate play dough into two and the children got to work with our rolling pins and play dough knives. They made all sorts of cookies and chocolates.

We even got our letter stamps out so they could stamp little messages in the play dough. The play dough smelled really good and I kept having to remind Little Sis not to eat it as she was very tempted.

If your children love Roald Dahl they may just love you more if you download the new Roald Dahl’s Twit or Miss app. This is the first Roald Dahl app and is full of food fighting fun for Twits big and small. Twit or Miss is available on the App Store and via Google Play – earn points by flicking food away from a sleeping Mrs Twit and make sure you watch out for her cane…