What are starch crafts?

Cornstarch is a simple staple with pure ingredients that's present in almost every kitchen around the world.

It's made from corn kernels, most particularly the starchy part known as the endosperm. A lot of people use it to thicken soups, sauces, gravies, or for batters used in frying.

Aside from being useful in cooking, cornstarch is a flexible ingredient in crafts. There are a wide variety of homemade crafts and fun ideas to share with your family, kids, and friends. 

Here is a very likable cornstarch product that has a multitude of uses for crafting and for the home. It's more specialized for these purposes and not as a cooking aid.

⭐ 1 (One) Pack Peal Starch 7.05oz

This Peal cornstarch is great for arts and crafts: Use for your sewing projects, quilting, crochet, and other crafts like playdough and paper-mache.

Your ironing would also glide faster over your fabric with no drag on your iron while removing wrinkles on both sides at the same time. Your clothes would be wrinkle-free!

This one small pouch of Peal starch makes up to three gallons of liquid starch, and it has no scent at all.

• Convenient and easy to store
• It barely has any smell and works so beautifully
• Good quality and great price
• Very easy to use
• Great product
• Multiple uses
• The best kind to make slime and kinetic sand with

• It's not a good product for eating

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There are other cornstarch activities aside from making kinetic sand. It could also be used for other fun activities for kids.

Fluffy Slime - You could also make fluffy slime by using cornstarch. 

• Just Pour 1/4 cup white school glue and a 1/2 cup of cornstarch in a bowl

• Add 3 drops of food coloring of your choice

• Mix it well

• Knead it with your hands for about 10 minutes.

• Heat it in the microwave for around20 seconds

• Let it cool, then knead it for another 10 minutes

Your fluffy slime is ready to be used!

Here's an available fluffy slime from the National Geographic.

⭐ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Mega Slime Kit & Putty Lab

It comes with storage tins and accessories for a complete lab kit. There is also a very helpful 16 page, full-color learning guide.

Pros:

• It comes with a variety of slime and putty
• There is a glow in the dark slime, and it comes with an LED flashlight that can instantly light up the slime
• Great kit for all ages
• The learning guide that is provided was very helpful
• The clean-up is easy
• Kids would want to explore with it some more
• Awesome slime and putty kit

Cons:

• It might contain toxic chemicals

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Moon Dough - To make a moon dough, you need to do the following.

• Place the cornstarch in a large bowl

• Mix in the hair conditioner with your hands and wait until it starts coming together and as it becomes very smooth. 

• Add a drop or two of food coloring

• You might need to add more conditioner as you go

• Knead it as you come with the right consistency

⭐ Green Toys Dough 4 Pack Activity Set, Multi, 1 EA

It's safe for kids since it's Phthalate and BPA free that meets FDA food contact standards. Packaged with recycled and recyclable materials, and the packaging printed was with soy inks.

Pros:

• The dough could hold up well for more than 10 months with two toddlers playing almost daily
• You just need to add water If it gets a little dry
• The yellow seems to retain moisture better for some reason.
• The containers are durable
• The containers are easy to reform and still close tight
• It is so soft and fluffy and easy for any toddler to mold
• Safe
• Affordable

Cons:

• It could stain any clothing and hands it gets on, and it could be very crumbly to some

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