I’ve been wanting to try this recipe for homemade play doh for awhile. Seems so easy and all the ingredients it calls for are things I always have available. The play doh tub has slowly dwindled the last year or so. Easy as pie to make my own. Also, non toxic and edible (though it wasn’t all that tasty, but neither is glue and kids seem to like that too LOL). At first I thought I was doing something wrong, but I stuck with it and it kind of turned into a big clump in the pan — pulled it off the burner and let it cool a second and kneaded it until it was EXACTLY like regular play doh. It’s actually a smoother consistency I think. The girls both gave it two thumbs up.

Here’s the recipe:

Easy Homemade Play Doh

1 c. Flour
1 c. Warm Water
2 tsp. Cream of Tartar
1 tsp. Vegetable Oil
1/8 c. Salt
Kool Aid Packet (for color)

Mix it all up, adding the kool aid last. Once it’s all mixed up together, throw it on the stovetop over medium heat. Keep stirring until it forms a glob in the bottom of the pan and is well blended. It becomes hard to stir at that point, takes about 3-5 minutes I’d say. It might look kind of clumpy at times, making you think you messed it up, but stick with it! It will be fine

Kenzie and I thought that the after product looked like a big piece of bubble gum

The girls decided to play “Chopped”
2 rounds of it. Easy for me.
I was the judge and could pick each of them as winners, making a tie.

Round 1:
Secret Ingredients:
Strawberries, Salmon, and Sour gummy bears.

Bailey’s first dish
(a salmon souffle with strawberry sauce and gummy bears)

McKenzie’s first dish:
(Salmon cakes in various shapes and a strawberry/sour gummies sauteed sauce)

Round 2: Desserts
Secret Ingredients: Watermelon, Bread, Cotton Candy (their choices)

Bailey’s Dish:
A cupcake with cotton candy and watermelon sauce.

McKenzie’s Dish
A fruit salad with bread pasta, and cotton candy cookies that say I <3 U Awh.

Good times my girlies. Check out Chopped on the Food Network if you haven’t seen it before. It is SO good!

Miss Bailey had to decorate a turkey for school this week. She had crafts supplies from one end of the kitchen to the other. I watched her decorate it, but I didn’t do it for her…. she created this masterpiece ALL by herself. The only thing anyone helped her with was the hat, and that was Ashlyn’s idea. Just because little 6 year olds holding homemade turkeys are so darn cute, there are 3 pictures below all for your enjoyment

Mr. Turkey, up close and personal…