How To Make Black Plasticine

I'm now going to show you how to make black plasticine. Our ingredients for this are a black wax crayon, some neutral boot polish, some petroleum jelly, some plain flour, a little cup to put it all in. Now, we're actually going to mix these and heat them and the way we're going to do that is with a bain-marie.

That needs a saucepan of boiling water and a separate bowl placed in the water into which everything will be mixed. Okay, so now we can see the water is boiling nicely, we break up our wax crayon. You can see quite quickly it's starting to melt.

Then we get one decent teaspoon of the boot polish, just put that in there, it's starting to help that melt. As you can see if you've got a nice rolling boil, it doesn't take long at all for it to start to melt. Obviously, be careful.

There's a lot of hot steam coming off it so make sure an adult is doing this. Just mix it nicely together. Now, once we've got this going down, let's just scrape off our excess there, I'm going to take a spoon of the petroleum jelly.

Add that in. This is going to make it more malleable. Without this, you end up, once it's cooled, just with black wax.

So you need to get this in there. Now, you can see we're almost down to nothing. It's all liquid.

Now, I saw recipes with this where this would be the last thing. But what I found was that the plasticine you'll end up with was just too greasy to play with. You can't really do that much with it.

It's stuck to your fingers all the time so what I do is I add in a bit of flour and that helps to stop it from sticking to your fingers. Again, I'll just do it by eye. No need to be super scientific about that.

We need quite a bit. Really, it's all to do with how much of this you are making so I can't really give you a proportion to that. Alright, so that's definitely going to be fine now.

You can see, it's a bit thicker. So, this, you don't have to worry about any lumps because it's oily, it's waxy, lumps just immediately dissolve from the flour so you don't have to sieve it or anything. So, that's looking lovely.

Now, we're going to put it into a different container. We've got to carefully take it out. I'm using a tea towel here.

We've got our pot, get a good whole of it, and then I'm going to pour that in to our pot. That will do. Put that to the side and then we're going to put that into the fridge to set.

It should take about 15 or 20 minutes and then your plasticine will be ready. .