homemade play dough
the other day, N was in the mood for modeling, but our cans of store-bought play-doh were ka-put… so we whipped up a batch of our own play dough from ingredients we had in our kitchen. i consulted my trusty mudworks
- 4 cups flour
- 1 cup iodized salt
- 1.75 cups warm water
- mix in a bowl, knead 10 minutes, play!
we got to work creating the dough. N helped every step of the way.
after we kneaded the dough for 10 minutes, it was a ball of potential energy waiting to become kinetic. (science nerdddd!)
anything is possible
and it did! N had lots of fun with cookie cutters and clay tools all afternoon!
(as earthy and homemade as we try to be, the longest stint in her play was when the little bear clay dude was “talking on his iphone to duck.” sheesh.)
little bear talking on his iphone, which clearly needs an earpiece so he can avoid brain tumors
we decided to bake a few of the cut shapes to make (what else?!) ornaments! (this really was not what we set out to do, but it just sort of happened. again. hey, it’s december…) i brushed each one with mayonnaise prior to baking at 300 for one hour. before putting them in the oven, don’t forget to poke a hole in the ones you intend to hang – straws work well for this.
the next day N painted the ornaments (and her fingers) with some sparkly acrylic paint.
once dry, we strung them with pretty ribbons and beads, and hung them on our tree. (well, a few were packaged in the mail to be delivered to the trees of friends and family… guess what you’re all getting this year…)
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