Home made playdoh for toddlers

Do you know that you can homemade your own playdoh? non-toxic and safe for children

No Cook Play Dough Recipe

• 3 cups sifted flour
• 1 cup salt
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 cup water
• Food Colouring (optional)

1. Mix the dry ingredients together
2. Add the oil
3. Slowly add water to the dry mixture
4. Check for desired consistency as you add the water
5. Knead the dough until it is smooth
6. Store the dough in an airtight container in the fridge

I have tried this recipe and it works just fine, Depending on your countries humidity, it may turn out differently. (add you might have to add more or less water) I find the dough a little grainy due to the salt particles but over time, the particles melt whilst kneading.

If you put it into a fridge, the dough might dry out, so as and when, add some water into your dough mixture so it can be kept for a longer time.

Crayola Kids washable paints for toddlers (2 years old)

I recently bought some Crayola Washable Kids' Paint for crafts.

They came in individual containers like this. and has 10 pretty colours!

First I quizzed K on the colours, when she got them right, I will pour a manageable amount out onto a piece of recycled cardboard paper in the position that she has requested it to be.

Next I give her the freedom to do her our artwork. Either with a sponge or her hand =X 

Messy!

 And some recycled bottle caps as well. You will realise that I love to use recycled materials for children's crafts as I can easily throw them away without any heartache at the end of the activity.

I also did some butterflu crafts with her, in which, I place the paints at various locations on the recycled paper and fold them into half so that the paints will be symmetrical on the opp side.

This is the product of the butterfly craft that we did.

Some drying needed before it can be further used.

I didn't want to waste the paintings that were done, and since teacher's day was nearing I thought why not give it as a gift to the teachers.

They would appreciate it a lot especially when it was hand made by K herself.

I created some cards for teachers' day... 

and up-cycled the artwork that she had done and gave it to the teacher.

 And they loved it!!!!

Think of how you can reuse the materials you have and up-cycle them for special occasions!

Furball sorting game with toddler ( 2 year old )

I recently bought some furry balls from tao bao ezbuy. It was a pack of mixed colour of furry balls of different sizes.

My intention of these balls were to use them as crafts for the upcoming Christmas on Christmas cards(?) undecided!!!

So since it was sitting in my storeroom for a short while, I thought of this game that I could play with K (2yo).

I took out a few Ikea bowls of various colours and asked her sort them accordingly by colour and asked her to name the colours.

This activity can probably last about 10-20mins depending on your tods concentration  or easily they get bored over the same repetitions.

When the sorting activity was over, she was tasked to create some christmas cards for her school teachers.

First some double sided dots were placed in the shape of a christmas tree, next, using the furballs that she has sorted, she would have to fill the christmas tree with as much furballs as possible.


This is the final product!



These glue dots doesn't hold the furballs well! A regular glue didn't work very well either.
I would suggest if you are doing this activity to use a glue gun instead of glue dots.