Ocean Week Day 3

Today for our ocean week we made ocean play dough.
We practiced measuring (which is the wrong unit but oh well) and we watched a chemical reaction between the dry ingredients and the hot water (there's the science!).

We used what may now be my favorite play dough recipe. It was super simple and there's no cooking (beyond boiling water), plus it's so soft. And the amazing recipe can be found here.

First the girls added the dry ingredients.

(I let KL stir these together since she's littler. We also added some small silver glitter and big blue glitter with this step.)

Next you added boiling water so I let KK stir that in until she was having a hard time. (Then I worked on it until it was good enough to finish off by a little kneading.)

And here's the finished product, it made enough for me to be able to split it between the two girls and they both had plenty to play with:

(Without the flash so you can see the glitter better.)

I grabbed a beach themed play dough brand set that I forgot we had until making this, along with the plastic ocean animal toys I had bought, and some larger sea shells I had bought also for them to play with.

The first thing KL did was pick up shells to see if she could hear the ocean :)

And then they played and played and played some more.

That's all for now,
Jo!

"Fairy Dough"

I saw a Pinterest idea for "fairy dough" made of just hair conditioner and corn starch so I figured we'd give it a try. First, here's the cute pics- Mixing it all up:

 Monster Hands :)

And then playing:

It really was very simple. Start with hair conditioner (when we went shopping the cheapest was scented, so our dough smells like strawberries) and then add corn starch until it makes a dough. The recipe I found called for 2.5 cups for 1 cup of conditioner but we started small and then added if needed and I'm glad we did. I started KK with 1.5 cups and KL with 1 (because being smaller it takes her a little more to knead it in). KK's turned out really dry and we needed to add more conditioner to it, but KL's was still pretty sticky so we added more starch to hers. By the end KK's was still drier than KL's dough but both were happy with their results and played until bedtime.

That's all for now,
Jo!