GFCF Crafts The Blob, Fingerpaint, and Bubbles

Playtime for kids is always fun. When it comes to non edible products, they can cause a reaction as well. Here are some crafts that you can make at home for the kids to play in, and you know that it will be safe for their sensitive bodies.


The Blob 
1/2 cup tapioca starch
1/2 cup salt
1 tablespoon oil
2 teaspoons GFCF cream of tartar

Acceptable flavoring for smell e.g. pure vanilla extract

Mix dry ingredients into a heavy pan. Add oil, water to above . Use pure vanilla extract for smell, or any other Feingold acceptable aroma. Cook, stirring constantly until mixture pulls away from sides of pan (almost immediately).

Fingerpaint GFCF/ADHD

1/2 cup tapioca starch

1/2 cup cold water

1 1/2 cups boiling water

1/2 cup Ivory flakes

1 tablespoon glycerin

Food coloring (Feingold Diet acceptable) organic

Dissolve tapioca starch in cold water. Add the boiling water and cook the mixture until it is clear, stirring constantly. Add the soap flakes, and stir well. Remove from stove immediately, and cool. Stir in glycerin and food coloring.

Bubble Stuff

2 2/3 cups Ivory flakes (not detergent)

1 teaspoon sugar

4 teaspoons glycerine (drugstore)

Pour the above ingredients into a quart jar with a lid and shake well. fill the jar all but half an inch with lukewarm water. Screw the lid on tightly and shake very hard. This mixture can be stored in the refrigerator but makes the best bubbles at room temperature or warmer. If you encounter any difficulty with the bubbles breaking before they are formed, add a bit more glycerin.

Reprinted from Caring and Cooking for the Allergic Child by Linda L. Thomas Sterling Publishing Company 1980.

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Baked Squash Casserole ADHD/GFCF

Baked Squash Casserole
1 medium squash or 1 frozen package
2 tablespoons sweet butter GFCF
2 tablespoons brown sugar
salt and pepper to taste
milk substitute
crushed cornflakes or meringue

Either steam or bake the squash, or use the frozen product. Salt and pepper to taste. Add a little milk until the right consistency. put in greased casserole dish with a topping of finely crushed cornflakes (check label for synthetics) or meringue. The cornflakes should be mixed with a little melted butter or shortening.

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Sweedish Cabbage Rolls GFCF and Feingold Diet

More recipes for you... this one can be used on the GFCF and Feingold Diets.

Sweedish Cabbage Rolls
1 medium head cabbage
1/4 cup rice
1 cup water
1 cup milk substitute
1/2 pound ground beef
1/2 pound ground pork
1 egg (replacer)
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons GFCF butter
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/2 cup milk substitute or GFCF cream
Flour (GFCG)
Salt and pepper to taste

Place cabbage in boiling salt water, after cutting out core of cabbage from underside. Cook until leaves separate with easily but are not to soft. Drain and bring the cup of water to boil add rice simmer until all water has evaporated. Add milk and cook until rice is tender. Stir occasionally. After cooking, mix with the next five ingredients. Fill each cabbage leaf with some of the mixture. Roll and fasten with a toothpick.
Heat butter in skillet. Brown cabbage rolls on all sides. Sprinkle with brown sugar, and put into a casserole dish. Add juices from skillet and a little water or stock. When serving, add cream and a little flour to the juices in the pan, add correct seasoning with salt and pepper. Simmer until thickened. Cook in oven at 350 degrees for one hour.

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ADHD Lollipops

Nothing is funner than candy, but with colors in everything these days, it is hard for a child with ADHD to avoid these so I found a lollipop recipe that will be fun even for them.

Lollipops
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
1/3 cup milk free margarine (optional; gives a butterscotch flavor)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon root beer flavoring or any other flavor allowed on the FD
40 lollipop sticks

boil sugar and water slowly until it reaches the boiling point. Add margarine and allow to melt. Boil until 310 degrees or until threads form when dipped from spoon (hard crack stage). Remove from heat and skim off top scum. Add vanilla and root beer flavoring. Stir to mix well. Place sticks on aluminum foil and pour candy from a spoon onto the sticks being careful not to run candy together. Pour quickly or candy will harden in pan. Reheat to melt if needed.

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