celebration Home-made Play Dough

 Eloise loves play dough and glitter so this celebration play-dough was a great hit! play-dough is  great sensory play for kids. Grab some cookie cutters and a rolling pin and Eloise plays for hours when shes given play-dough. This recipe is one of the best recipes I have tried. This play doh was a great hit the past new years and will be made this year for new years too. This is super easy and gives kids all ages hours of fun. you can add vanilla or peppermint extract to make it scented for extra sensory fun.

What you need to make play dough:

1 cup flour

1/4 cup salt

1 teaspoon oil

3/4 cup boiling water

glitter 

(not needed) but if on hand 1 table spoon of cream of tarter  

if you want it scented for extra sensory play add in a teaspoon of coconut oil or any type of extract

Directions to make play-dough:

1)mix flour salt and glitter into a bowl

2)boil water 

3)mix oil water and scent oil in with dry ingredients 

4) mix with hands till its a consistent dough then let the kids play.

5)  when done place in a zip lock bag or a container to use again

Christmas tree ornaments

    Here are a few different Christmas tree ornaments we made this week with Eloise and Kyler.  Eloise loves to make crafts. When we have time we have been making different  Christmas  tree ornaments. Well this week at play group we got to make a few different ones. 
 I thought it would be great to blog these simple ornaments that are toddler friendly to make. These are very easy and cheap to make they would make great gifts for people too. 

Snowman / Reindeer

what you need to make these is  clear bulbs foam balls red paper google eyes. brown pipe cleaner and red pom pom, orange paper for snowman's nose and black circle stickers for snow mans mouth. Fill bulbs with paper or foam next glue on eye.  Next glue nose on and stick stickers on to make mouth after wrap pipe cleaner for antlers.

Christmas tress (Popsicle stick)

You need green Popsicle sticks 3 to make a triangle. Next cut brown or yellow Popsicle stick in half. Glue them as stems onto your tree. When dry glue on bells gems or buttons onto the green part as ornaments on the tree. When done tie a string onto it to hang. Very simple for kids to make.

Glitter ornaments 

To make these all you need is clear bulbs, glitter glue, ribbon. Let child squeeze colours of their choice of glitter glue into the bulb. Make sure they spread the colours all around in the bulb. Next put cover on bulb and let child shake the ornament. When glitter glue is fully spread around tie a ribbon bow onto it. Then its ready to hang on your tree.