Ice Cream Playdough

 I originally found the recipe for Ice playdough at Smart School House. There they have the exact recipe of how to make it but i left winged it. I'm going to tell you how i did it.

You need:

• Frosting
• Powered sugar
• Food coloring 
• Mixing bowl

Directions: 

1. Put Frosting in to mixing bowl
2. Add food color
3. Stir
4. Add about a cup of powdered sugar
5. mix. Its going to start getting thick.
6. Add more sugar into the dough and knead it in. In the original recipe she used a mixer with a dough hook attachment but i don't have that so i used my hands. 
7. You'll want to add powdered sugar until the dough is soft but not sticky.  You'll use about 2 3/4 cups of sugar for a cup of frosting. I didn't measure because was to much works, so i just eye balled it.
8. Add a drizzle of oil if you added to much sugar or it begins to dry out  

Storage:

Store in a Ziploc bag in the refrigerator . Take out 30 mins before used to soften the dough before play.

Our Experience: 

Haven loved it! he like making ice cream out off it and just simply squishing it with his hands molding it and having fun with it.

For me though it was very messy. Maybe if it wasn't sugar i wouldn't of had a problem with the mess but we have ants. All I could think about was if i didn't clean this really well the ants would be every where and I'm out of Raid. It dried out pretty quickly and flaked of a lot. 

It  was fun and i do think its something you have to try at least once with your littles. I mean come on is playdough made out of frosting, that is kids two favorite things combined.

Mickey and Minnie Ears Headbands (Includes Variation For Baby)

I'm so excited about theses ears! I'm taking the  littles to Disneyland tomorrow, YAY. I wanted them to have something special to wear and i cant afford to buy Mickey ears at Disneyland to be honest. So i took to Pinerest and found this awesome tutorial from tutorial from The Suburban Mom on how she made Mickey ears for a birthday party. She has a Youtube video and everything there.

I spent $5 at Micheal's for materials (for 3 Sets of ears) and used some headbands i already had in a drawer. I'm pretty sure that beats what you'd pay at Disneyland.

I did everything exactly like she said to in her tutorial for the two bigger kids ear but went i got to the baby's I had to changes things up a bit. I still used her basic concept but i used a elastic headband for his.

For this one when I covered it with the felt i couldn't glue the felt to the headband because i needed the the headband to stretch freely. This part was tricky . I started in the middle of folded the felt over then tucked it as tight as i could and folded over the other side and glued the felt to the felt. I worked my way all the way around the band going a inch at a time creating a felt tube around the elastic band. I did not seal the ends for the felt tubes together. Instead i left the lose because u need ed elastic to stretch freely.

I measured the band before i started and the circumference of my babys head. His head was about a inch larger the the headband before stretched any. So i began to add pieces of felt in between the original ends of the felt tubing and stretching it to the size of my babys head so it wouldn't be tight on his little head all day long. Its not even noticeable once he's wearing it.

Colored Rice Sensory Activity

You Need:

WE used this paint (Walmart)

• Rice (white rice will show the color better)
• paint
• Ziploc bag
• water (just a little to thin paint)
• Baking sheet
• A large Tupperware (or something similar)  
• Cups
• little toys (we used cars)

Directions:

1. Put rice in to Ziploc bag.
2. Add add. Just a squirt. you can add more if you want a darker color.
3. Add a little water, just a little you don't want to make it too water just thin it enough to coat all the rice.
4. Zip and shake and knead the bag until rice is fully coated. This is where you can decide if you want to add more paint or not.
5. Pour rice on to a baking sheet and let dry.
6. Once dry pour in to a lager Tupperware or something similar. We used the cover from a sheet birthday cake.
7. Add toys and cups and have fun.

This is brown minute rice.

This is white rice.

Our Experience:

It was supposed to be glow rice but it didn't glow very well. It might have glowed better if i added more paint but i wanted to save some paint for other projects. I added too much water in the first bag of white rice i made and i had to soak it out with a paper towel, so be careful with that part. Besides that Haven had a blast with it. He buried his cars, poured rice in and out of different containers, he added googly eyes and raced his cars in it. Nearing the end of the play session he thought he wanted  to out his feet inside it to see what it felt like. He liked the feeling and decided it would be a good idea to just sit in it. Made me wish i had a bigger container and more rice. Definitely going to that one days sounds fun. I saved the rice and put it up for another day because this activity was a success.

Glow Jar On A Cold And Gloomy Day

You need:

• Glow sticks (we used the bracelet ones but i think the thicker ones might be easier to pour) 
• Scissors
• A mason jar
• Glitter 

Directions:

1. Crack the glow sticks to make glow
2. Cut end off over jar and pour it in. ( If you use the thin ones like us, cut both ends and blow out the sticks contents in the jar. Try not to get it in your month it tastes so bad but its non-toxic if you do.
3. Add a pinch of glitter
4. Put the lid on tightly
5. SHAKE

Our Experience:

Glow stick guts splatted everywhere when i cut of the tips . First we tried to make cool glow effects in water with last Halloweens glow sticks. So much fail happened with that. We went in to the kids room to get some darkness and we sat on the floor and i started cutting. The carpet the sheets and us began to glow. Then just like any 2 year old would Haven wanted to put the glow stick in his mouth. Eww, so he started spitting every where.  To top it off the glow sticks didn't even glow that brightly because they were so old. It happens though projects fail. On the flip side I started painting on the baking pan with the grow sticks and it made pretty neat effects. I want to try this with Haydynn (6 Year Old) , outside at night some time.

 

 Back to the glow jar:

 I took the assembly of the jar to the kitchen. i should have went outside tho because now i have to rewash some dishes that got splattered. I let Havok pull up a chair and watch but i took over this one. Once i new what i was doing putting it all together to a matter of minutes.  It looks really neat. Just have to watch him with it because it is a glass jar. Its a cool thing to cuddle under a blanket on a cold gloomy day.

ATTENTION: Glow sticks have glass in them and the chemicals can burn eyes or mouth or throat if ingested. HANDLE WITH CARE. leave the handling part for the parents.