One Craftee Mumma

Play Dough – my kids LOVE the stuff!  I didn’t think they could possibly love it any more until I made this Jelly Play Dough, pretty safe to say they are obsessed!

I had been wanting to give it a go since the ‘loverly’ Cat talked about it on her blog.  I decided to make a couple of batches for home and then make some extras to take along to Nate’s Kindy, why not share the play dough love!

I followed the recipe from Modern Parents Messy Kids, the only thing I changed was to add glitter into a couple of the batches for a bit of bling!

So I set about getting my first batch done and of course it got to the hard bit where you have to stir and stir and stir and it gets tougher and tougher and tougher – so I called for back up in the form of Husband!  Bless him!  So from then on I did the easy part of the measuring and combining all the ingredients and he stirred – something that he is used to doing….

I used Aeroplane Jelly – the real stuff not the one with all natural colours and flavourings - in Orange, Lime, Blueberry and Raspberry.  The colours were awesome and the smell was delicious!  The consistency of the play dough was amazing, I could have played with it all day!  So lovely and smooth!

The kids had a ball playing with it and it is still a daily activity whether it be for 5 minutes or hours.  They love it!

Nate said to me after making the above masterpiece ‘It’s nice and lovely chocolate Mummy.  It’s very friendly, touch it Mummy’.  Seriously where do they come up with this stuff!

So the verdict is that the Jelly Play Dough is awesome!  You really should give it a try, you won’t be disappointed!

P.S. If you decide to add the glitter, don’t used your best non stick pot – cause it will scratch the you know what out of it!  Lesson learned!

So the other day was a total disaster most days are.  Mr 4 and Mr 2 were doing their best to try and kill eachother and whilst I was trying to referee and negotiate I then found this…………….

{the ‘if you don’t lock it or bolt it down, I’m into it’ stage….}

After posting this on Instagram the very wonderful ‘sunshineinateacup’ left me a comment saying ‘I’d suggest some crafty food colouring paint activity using the cotton tips as brushes’ – genius!  So that is what we did!  I busied myself getting it all ready making sure they each had the same amount of colours each (so as to avoid any fuel for an argument) and let them go for it.  It is something Nate does at Kindy so he had great pleasure in showing Hamish what to do….

{concentration = quiet}

{just a few of the masterpieces…}

Although it only lasted ten minutes until they were over it, it was ten minutes of relative quiet with no bickering which at the moment is a constant thing round these parts, tell me they grow out of it to some degree….

Do you have a standby activity that you pull out when you are at your wits end?!?

** It must also be said and let’s just put it out there that I was also never going to bribe my children either but that happens daily