December Play Dough

Today I decided to make playdough. I got the recipe off of http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/

I use a lot of her stuff for my 3 year old. They have a different recipe for every month of the year. The recipe for December is Peppermint. I ended up using mint because I didn't have any peppermint extract. Anyways it's pretty easy so enjoy! Remember if you want to enlarge an image just click on it and then to get back just click the back button.

The Recipe

The ingredients:

The almost finished product is below. It cooked for a little bit longer and then I let it cool down. I then stored it in two ziplock bags. I used this recipe in two different pans, so this is how much a doubled recipe would be. Just so that you know. It's super easy and the kids have super fun. By the way this is not an edible recipe. I have some of those but this one is NOT one of them. Happy playing!

Turkey Cupcakes

With friends and family here we thought it would be fun to make Turkey Cupcakes. We used Nilla Wafers, candy corn, Twizzler Pull and Peels, mini chocolate chips, cupcakes and chocolate frosting. First you make any type of cupcakes that you want and frost them with brown frosting. Then you put 6-10 candy corns on the back side as the tail feathers, in the cake not just by the cupcake wrapper. You take a Nilla Wafer and you can either lay it down in the middle of the cupcake or kind of set it up on end in the middle, I like setting it up on end better, they look a little cuter. You then take two other Nilla Wafers and put them on the sides kind of standing up so they look like wings. Then take two mini chocolate chips and put some chocolate frosting on the back of them and put them on the middle Nilla Wafer as the eyes. Then you make the waddle with a small piece of Twizzler Pull and Peel.

Here are some pictures of the finished product of each person.

Alyssa


Samara


Natalie kind of did whatever she wanted. She had a lot of candy corns and sort of just stuck them all in. It didn't look much like a turkey but it was yummy anyway.


The big kids made some too. This is Auntie Erin's.

Brent This one has the middle Nilla Wafer standing up and the waddle sort of hanging down the cupcake.

Eric This one has the Nilla Wafer standing up and the waddle hanging down the cupcake.

Kim (me)

Micah (my wonderful husband) He wanted white eyes so he took the white pieces off the candy corns.

Thanksgiving Pumpkins

Tonight we looked on Familyfun.com to get a couple of ideas on what to do for snacks for Thanksgiving. This one seemed fun but was really sticky. It was kind of hard to do as well as we tried to smash it together and it wasn't as easy to manipulate the circus peanuts as I thought it would be.

So here's what we did. We took circus peanuts cut them in half. Then we cut a thin slice of a green gumdrop to make it sticky. We put this slice on the back flat part of the circus peanut and put the two backs together. Then we rolled it into a ball, or at least tried to. It was quite sticky and hard to roll but we kind of got it. Then we took the back of a knife, even though the recipe called for toothpicks, it was easier as the toothpick kept breaking, to put lines on the "pumpkin". Then we put a hole in the top with a toothpick and cut off another piece of the gumdrop and put it in the top like a stem.


Gumdrops


Circus Peanuts



Rolling the balls for the "pumpkins".


Here's the ball!

Nattie ready to eat her pumpkin.

Syssa ready to eat her pumpkin.

Mara ready to eat her pumpkin.

The girls LOVED their circus peanut pumpkins.

The finished product.

This is not something we are going to do again because it was a lot of work and a lot of stickiness for not a lot of results. I will probably post again tomorrow about all of the fun events, food, crafts, and messes, of course.