Ideas: Play-doh recipe, salt tray, old crayons
Ideas: Play-doh recipe, salt tray, old crayons
Recipe for play-doh
My 2yr old loves play-doh and my mother in law gave me a recipe to make it at home. Some of you might already know about this recipe but I didn't and was excited to make it...my kids think it's cool that we make our own play-doh too! I thought someone else might find it useful so here it is:
1C. flour
1/2 C. salt
2tsp. cream of tarter
1T. oil
1c. water
cook & stir continuously over med-high heat until it forms a ball, then knead in food coloring. I store it in zip lock bags.
My 2yr old loves play-doh and my mother in law gave me a recipe to make it at home. Some of you might already know about this recipe but I didn't and was excited to make it...my kids think it's cool that we make our own play-doh too! I thought someone else might find it useful so here it is:
1C. flour
1/2 C. salt
2tsp. cream of tarter
1T. oil
1c. water
cook & stir continuously over med-high heat until it forms a ball, then knead in food coloring. I store it in zip lock bags.
~Laura
Married in 1998 to Nathan, the love of my life, and blessed with 4 great kids: Jonathan('99), Josiah ('00), Avalon ('02), and Elijah ('05).
Currently doing Exp - 1850
Married in 1998 to Nathan, the love of my life, and blessed with 4 great kids: Jonathan('99), Josiah ('00), Avalon ('02), and Elijah ('05).
Currently doing Exp - 1850
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We use the same recipe, too, and it works great!
My dd loves to experiment and we've found that a packet of Kool-Aid mix also works great for coloring and gives it a nice smell. We do the main mixing in a large Ziploc bag to avoid any finger stains. Once its mixed well, the Kool-aid will not leave any stains on anything. Believe me, my daycare kids have tested that theory well!!!!
My dd loves to experiment and we've found that a packet of Kool-Aid mix also works great for coloring and gives it a nice smell. We do the main mixing in a large Ziploc bag to avoid any finger stains. Once its mixed well, the Kool-aid will not leave any stains on anything. Believe me, my daycare kids have tested that theory well!!!!
mother to dd11, ds7, ds5.
Adventures 07/08
ECC 08/09
Creation to Greeks 09/10
Wrapping up CTG and soon to start RTR, also doing Kindergarten
Adventures 07/08
ECC 08/09
Creation to Greeks 09/10
Wrapping up CTG and soon to start RTR, also doing Kindergarten
Ideas: Salt tray
Hi Dawn :) We used a bright red, heart shaped plastic valentines goodie dish (about the size of a round cake pan) - lol! I put enough salt to be "deep" enough to be fun for my dd, but she was able to write down to the red pan easily. The bright red pan made the letters she made easy to see. Blessings to you!DS4home wrote:I have what may be a silly question...How do you make a salt tray for beginning letter formation for a pre-k'er? I'm wondering how deep the salt should be. Is it just a little on the bottom of a pan, so your finger touches the bottom when you write? Or is it suppose to be deeper so your finger is always touching salt when you write? Also, how big of a pan works best? Something like a sandwich size tupperware, or 8x8, or 9x11? I didn't make one for my ds at this age, but I would like to now for my dd.
Dawn
WLiC, Quinne
MFW since 2006
ECC (8th, 4th & 2nd) 2015-16
MFW since 2006
ECC (8th, 4th & 2nd) 2015-16
Ideas: Old crayons
Amanda,SandKsmama wrote:I have gone through all the school supplies - my goodness, how did we get so many crayons???).
Crayons are like books, which are like rabbits -- they multiply when you turn the lights out at night!
But seriously, I think we end up with so many crayons because there's just something special about a brand new box of them! But after you use then for a while a few get broken, then the box gets torn, then the paper gets peeled off some others and you end up tossing them all into a shoebox and head out to get another brand new box. It's an endless cycle, really. After 15 years of homeschooling I'm convinced that we need to have a support group to help us stop the annual crayon trek.
Blessings,
Chris
Wife to Jim since '91
Mom to:
Matthew, 18, Ursinus College student
Andrew, 14, ECC 7/8 + a few extras to make it "official" for high school credit
Daniel, 5, wanting to "do school" but still not really ready
Mom to:
Matthew, 18, Ursinus College student
Andrew, 14, ECC 7/8 + a few extras to make it "official" for high school credit
Daniel, 5, wanting to "do school" but still not really ready
Re: Old crayons
here's one way to make crayon candlesRB wrote:Is there anything cool to do with the old crayons?
I, too, am about to go buy a brand new box of perfect crayons, and once again will be faced with what to do with all of the old yucky ones.
Can you melt them to make crayon candles or something?
http://familycrafts.about.com/cs/candle ... aycand.htm
Uses for old crayons
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf666289.tip.html
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resou ... led-crafts
http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resou ... yon-crafts
lots of ideas on the 'net
Re: Old crayons
I had to laugh at all of the messages about crayons!jasntas wrote:I love the crayon discussion. There is just something special about a new box of unbroken, all the colors available, new wax smelling crayons. Even a crayon sharpener doesn't make up for a new box.

My dd was in a summer art camp, and they asked for donations of old crayons, glue, etc. So, I thought I'd suggest for those who want to get rid of old crayons, perhaps see if a daycare or something needs crayons. Just an idea.

Jen
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blessed by MFW since 2006
have used every year K-1850MOD
2018-2019: Adventures with 9yo boy
happily married to Vince (19 yrs)
blessed by MFW since 2006
have used every year K-1850MOD
2018-2019: Adventures with 9yo boy
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Re: Old crayons
We have a bazillion old crayons! I can't believe we moved them across the country. *sigh* I love the idea in one of those links to melt them down in foil lined muffin cups in the oven to make chunky crayons. Most church pre-schools would love to get a donation of fun chunky crayons. We tried to make a crayon candle a couple of years ago and it was not a good experience. Someone more crafty than I may do fine with that, but it was downright scary to me - both the process and the looks of the final product!
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Re: Old crayons
We once made heart-shaped crayons from our old crayons. Use a rubber (silicone?) pan and they popped out super easy.Cyndi (AZ) wrote:I love the idea in one of those links to melt them down in foil lined muffin cups in the oven to make chunky crayons. Most church pre-schools would love to get a donation of fun chunky crayons. We tried to make a crayon candle a couple of years ago and it was not a good experience. Someone more crafty than I may do fine with that, but it was downright scary to me - both the process and the looks of the final product!.
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/crayon-hearts-671639/
We even mailed them to out of state friends... huge hit at our house. You might try it for the next valentine party!
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