This shriek makes me C-R-A-Z-Y. Like, I want to punch myself in the face kind of crazy.
We play outside for awhile. Then he declares, while stripping off his wet swim trunks in the middle of the yard, that he is done with water play.
So we go inside.
Its hot. The crafty project I tried to do for little miss is 1) a failure and 2) she refuses to wear it (will post about that later). Then dada texts to say the predicted $200 car repairs are going to cost close to $1,000. On our minivan. That has over 150,000 miles on it.
Perfect.
So now? I am eating chocolate grenache while the children quietly play at the table. How is this possible?
Homemade playdough.
Playdough is seriously SO easy to make. And with little miss still sneaking tastes of it now and again its nice to know all the ingredients are in fact edible.
little girl mixed her colors, brother was appalled, of course. |
Cream of Tarter Playdough Recipe
Ingredients:
2 cups of plain flour
2 cups of water
1 Tbsp. of cooking oil
1 tsp. cream of tartar
1 cup of salt
Directions:
Place all of the ingredients in a medium size or large pan. Cook slowly on medium-high and stir it until the playdough thickens. Keeps best in the fridge in plastic containers. This is simular to the traditional playdough recipe.This recipe takes less than 10 minutes.
We added around 8 drops of food coloring to separate balls of dough to make colors.
(ETA. No promises on the length of play this will provide. Little man just declared he was done and is now running up and down the hall with his lego spaceships making shooting laser type noises. Did I mention dada is working late? YIPES.)
Hey you!! This was easy huh? I found a bunch of recipes that need to be cooked but have never done it that way before. I want to make pink playdough as part of Peyton's party favors for her birthday. Thanks for the feedback.
ReplyDeleteTina
its a great recipe! it takes like 3 minutes to stir as it is cooking and then it thickens right up. one thing, i would add an additional teaspoon of veg oil, it could use a little more moisture, pliability, you know?
ReplyDeletecute party idea!