Pinned It & Did It: Homemade Play Dough

It's getting darker earlier now, so it felt like dinner time, but we had a couple hours to kill before our actual dinner time. Making our own play dough was the perfect solution to my kids' boredom.

My Play Dough...

Play Dough I pinned...

                                               Source: favoritesandthings.blogspot.co.uk via Jessica on Pinterest

The play dough is a fairly new pin and I didn't expect to use it so soon after pinning, but it was the perfect activity to do with my kids yesterday afternoon. And I'm happy to say with very slight modifications to the original recipe, it was a total pinned it & did it success!

The original recipe is on Favorites and Things. I can't remember how I came across it originally, but her play dough recipe post has a few recipes for play dough and other types of modeling clay. I'm sure I'll try some of her other recipes on another dark and dreary afternoon. For now, I'll share how we made ours with the small modifications. 

What you need:

2 cups flour

1 cup salt

1 tbsp oil

1 cup water 

food coloring (optional)

glitter (optional)

(the original recipe used 3/4 cup water)

Step 1: Mix flour and salt

Step 2: Add food coloring to the water.

Step 3: Gradually add oil and water to the dry mix.

(add more water to make the dough stickier OR more flour to make the dough less sticky)

Step 4: Add glitter and mix and squish until it's all mixed in.

Step 5: Play with your homemade play dough.

My kids had fun mixing the water and oil in with their hands. Squishy! We were low on colours so we only used yellow. The play dough was not very colourful from the yellow. 

This inspired us to make it more exciting with glitter! We love sparkly glitter! The best part of sparkly play dough is that the glitter stays in the play dough. 

Roll it...squish it...mold it. Make a snail and show your little girl how to make a snail. It's great fun for the kids and great therapy for me.

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Pajama Boy

I finally completed another project that I had planned for KCWC. I made these cozy pajamas from some really warm fleece. So soft. He put them on right after I finished them and I miraculously got two pictures before he took off and started playing again. It was the middle of the day, but he kept these on until bedtime and then slept in them. I'm SO glad he likes them! 

I used a pattern from my mom for the top and made the Kickin' Back Sweats from Sewing for Boys for the bottoms. The top was a little fiddly, but the bottoms were so easy! I can't wait to make another pair of Kickin' Back Sweats for my little guy. 

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Gone Fishin'

If you read my mom's blog, you've probably seen her posts (here, here, and here) about what she recently made for my little boy and girl. Here are the beautiful clothes on my beautiful kids...

Thank you, Nanny!

Now we can all go fishing with Papa at Christmas.

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WIPs and October catch up

It's been a busy week...too busy to blog! I was so busy with Halloween costumes last week that I could barely get pictures of them, let alone post about them. Now that October's over, I've got a minute to show a cute cowgirl and cowboy...

It's half home-made (chaps, denim vest, & orange blouse) and half from the closet & NCT nearly new sale. Both kids designed their outfits completely. I sketched them out as they told me so that I was sure I wouldn't get it wrong. They both loved their costumes and wore them to three different Halloween celebrations. By the fourth, they were tired of saying "Howdy" and went for their more typical attire as Cinderella (made by my mom) and Spiderman. I also managed to make a red riding hood cape, a wolf's tail, wolf hands, wolf legs, and wolf feet. Our floor was one furry mess after that.

I've also been busy with some works in progress...and doing some research on how to open an Etsy shop! I'm so excited about this. It's not open, yet, but it should all be set up soon! My mom and I will be opening our shop together. We like the name Sunshine Makings. What do you think?

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