Rainy Day (or Hot Day!) Fun

Addy loves helping in the kitchen (or helping anywhere really!) and one day recently when it was just SO sweltering hot that we needed to wait on the weather to cool down to go outside, we made playdough together.  My mother-in-law has taught toddlers at Northport Baptist Dayschool for years and I think she is the one who introduced me to making playdough.  It's not hard and you probably already have the ingredients in your kitchen!  The recipe I used is in the Winning Seasons cookbook but I copied it below in case anyone would like to try!

Love those little toes!

First we had to make brownies!  We hear the words "Addy Do It" a lot when she wants us to let her do it by herself!  Here she is stirring the eggs... a dangerous idea!  Only one egg ended up cracked on the floor.

After the brownies were in the oven, we moved on to playdough. 

Recipe:

1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 cup water
1 Tbsp cooking oil
2 tsp cream of tartar
Food color, if desired

In a saucepan, mix flour, salt, water, oil and cream of tartar.  Place over medium heat and cook for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.  The mixture will form a ball.  When this happens, remove from heat and drop on wax paper.  Knead the dough.  Food color may be added to ingredients while in the pan or after the dough has been removed from the pan.  You may want to make several colors.  The dough may be kept a long period of time if tightly covered.  It will not stick to fingers and is pliable.