You need maybe a couple of tablespoons to thicken gravy. You need three teaspoons, tops, for laundry spray starch. I try not to over-use my resources, of course, but when I have a certain supply sitting around on my kitchen or crafting shelves for years at a time, then I start to look for more useful ways to incorporate it into my life. It turns out that there are a million uses for cornstarch, and just because you know a few of them by no means makes you a cornstarch know-it-all. Check around and you’ll absolutely find a useful, natural, cornstarch-using recipe that you just have to try. Here are five recipes to get you started: Use a lot of glue? Try substituting some of it, especially for children’s craft projects, with this cornstarch glue. It looks and acts like school paste, and keeps well in your refrigerator. Next » For a way to use cornstarch in your cooking without actually, you know, using cornstarch in your cooking, check out how Instructables member sandds crafted a cornstarch hard candy mold. With cornstarch, you can create your own simple shapes for a mold–as large as you want!–and when the candy is hard, the cornstarch brushes right off. [The image on this page belongs to Instructables member sandds.] Next » If you’re interested in an at-home science experiment, or just a very, very, VERY weird sensory experience, then you’ve got to try making oobleck. Consisting of just water and cornstarch stirred together, it’s pretty much the simplest recipe that you’ll ever make, but its impact? Huge. Next » Overall, cornstarch is an excellent material for craft projects of all kinds. When you find yourself getting tired of regular play dough, check out the cornstarch play dough from Five Orange Potatoes. The beauty of cornstarch play dough is that it takes watercolor paint extremely well–look at those vividly painted colors! [The image on this page is the property of Five Orange Potatoes.] Next » My girlies and I had an excellent time last summer painting our sidewalk, the road, the basketball court over at the park, and basically everything that would hold still long enough with cornstarch sidewalk paint, and we’re quite looking forward to doing it again this summer. This cornstarch sidewalk paint recipe from kiddio is an especially good one, because it comes divided up, ready for coloring. [The image on this page belongs to kiddio.]
