Things to do for our wee ones.

Hey I make playdough too - I learnt when I was at college - it certainly helps when you work with kids to know how to make it! Mine is very similar but without any cooking involved we just mix it and knead it a lot! The kids love it and it is so cheap to make too - great that you are sharing this! xxxx

ive got a recipe for playdough, but theres no cooking involved.. will have to dig it up for you, it even smells the exact same LOL my sprite.. in cleaning her room, found umpteen billion empty water bottles under her bed.. she put them all into her empty lego bin (she dumped alla the legos onto the floor for this.. completely missing the concept she was cleaning her room LOL) and then proceeded to make stuff out of these bottles all on her own. ive now got a bunch of shelf-sitter kitty cats that are just too cute for words! we also do various science projects periodically.. but unless you wanna clean up humungous messes (we also periodically blow things up during these experiments.. ever cleaned lava out of kitchen curtains?? LOL for science!!) i wouldnt reccomend our methods of fun and entertainments LOL

I am so not that kind of parent! i don't make stuff, i don't bake, but i will play princesses with my little girl. I will watch my son bust his A$$ on that stupid rip stix he has. and I will sit with my older son and listen to him mix his music. I am not very handy, and my mind doesn't work that way

Bella, You know I used to do this with my boys because I just did not have a big extended family to help buy things for them. But the grand kids have so much play dough, crayons, markers, coloring books and paint that there is no need for Nana to dirty up a bunch of pots and pans to make stuff anymore. Thats one of the good things about having Anuts and uncles who live so close.

Yes, remember the Jolly Ranchers hard candies? If you dip them in hot water (not too hot, you don't want to scald yourself), but hot enough to bend the candy you can make flowers with them. Use the green ones to make stems and leaves and the colored ones to make petals of the flower. Twist the pieces around one another to get them to adhere. Finally put them in the freezer so they won't be all sticky and either eat them or show them off.

I usually make soap with them. I make a couple of kinds. Of course my cold process soap which I use lye in they don't help with. But the melt and pour glycerin soap they do. My son is too small but my daughter is all over it. She makes it for her friends as well.

Well Bella that is a great Idea but I will skip that one 1. My Kids are Adults now and I do not believe they would appreciate it 2. Gissi would make the biggest Mess going and be in his Element with it I hate to even imagine I could have done with this when mine where little as I was always buying it lol