Poppet and I cooked up a batch of play dough this morning. I’m constantly surprised at how easy it is. Poppet spent half the time trying to put on latex gloves. I made a big show about making purple by mixing red and blue together. I thought he would find this amazing. ‘It’s like magic’ I said as added the drops of colours and mixed the dough. ‘It’s black’ he replied and turned back to his glove problem. I kneaded some more ‘look, look! What colour is it now?’ Barely looking up from his gloves ‘Its purple’ he mumbled.