Showing posts with label Cheap Projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cheap Projects. Show all posts

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Edible Peanut Butter Play Dough


  

Ingredients:
1+1/2 cups natural peanut butter
1/2-3/4 cup powdered milk

Steps:
Mix! Enjoy! Eat!
(Last two steps in no particular order)

Thanks again goes out to Megan, who sent me a great list of ideas for toddlers.
I didn't have natural peanut butter on hand, so I am wondering if mine turned out a little softer than it should have.  It was still perfectly entertaining for little hands and perfectly yummy for little mouths!  I even cut up matchstick celery to stir with and got out sprinkles to roll little PB play dough balls in.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Salt Art



You will need:
  •  Salt (any kind is fine)
  • Little cups or bowls (however many colors you want to do)
  • Food coloring
  • Elmer's or similar craft glue
  • Construction Paper, cardstock, or poster board
  • shoe box
Steps:
  1. Pour a small amount of salt into each cup, about a 1/4 cup or so.
  2. Mix in a few drops of food coloring to create the colors you want.
  3. Cut your paper the size of the bottom of the shoe box and put it inside and give it to your child.
  4. Help squeeze the glue as your child directs the motion creating a glue design.
  5. Have your child dump one of the colored salt cups in the box and jiggle the box to have the salt cover all the glue.
  6. Take it over the sink and pour the excess colored salt back into the cup (if you want to do it again).
  7. Then add more glue, another color salt and continue to repeat until you have your desired design.







We had fun in our "salt box" afterward-- simply pour in all the extra salt and enjoy!