Almond Playdough!

I had a bit of a homemade playdough disaster today. I'd promised one of my new mindees some pink sparkly playdough to play with after school but something went horribly wrong with my food colouring and it turned out a wierd orange colour! To make up for the wierd colour I added something with a nice smell - almond extract. None of the kids could get enough of it and many, many almondy cakes were made!

Oat-so much fun!

Today's messy play activity was oats! My 2 year old and the 1 year old I was looking after loved this - they scooped them with spoons and put them in cups and bowls, they chucked them all over the floor and ate a fair few as well! Definitely one to do again another day:

Today was B-day!

We made some letter Bs (and bs!) today, once I'd cut out all the pieces it was easy enough for the children to glue them all on:

You can't tell very well from this picture but I made their toast into letter Bs using a cookie cutter:

 

Then we had fun with a Big Bucket of Bubbles:

And I drew some Bs on the wall for them to paint off with water:

We also made some Butterflies by painting kitchen roll with watered down paint:

Chocolate playdough heaven!

Some of my favourite blogs have been posting lots of great playdough ideas in the last few weeks. It inspired me to do something a little bit different, so we used a recipe on Nuturestore and made some 'chocolate' playdough.

At first I set up it up as 'mud' with some pebbles and tractors for my 3 year old mindee to play with:

This was fun but nowhere near as big a hit as making cakes and chocolates with it was:

 Even my older 2 had great fun with this one.

We'll definitely be taking the Playdough Pledge next week and finding more interesting recipes to use!