36 days ago by Messy Kids

Happy New Year Messy Kids and It's Playtime readers! We all had a wonderful Christmas brake but now we're back and ready to rock. We appreciate all our readers and participants and can't wait to see what the New Year brings. This week on It's Playtime I'm celebrating....CHOCOLATE! Stuck inside on a ...

36 days ago by katiezoe

Today was a more appropriately chilly January day in Maine. 18 degrees by my car’s dashboard, and when I got to work I realized that one of Liam’s mittens was in my bag. I knew his school would find something to cover his hand in such cold, but figured I’d drop off the mitten at lunch time anyway, j ...

37 days ago by Joyce

It has been terribly cold in Alabama the last several days. It's a cold that we are not accustomed to in this mild winter we are having. And it's a cold that is without snow. What's the fun in that? So this week we've made our own snow fun in various ways. The first activity was a big hit with R. We ...

37 days ago by Anna @ The Imagination Tree

I've been wanting to try out making bright white play dough ( or snow dough!) for a while so we experimented with our usual no-cook recipe to see what we could come up with and it was surprisingly easy to make! Recipe for bright white play dough: 1 cup cornflour (cornstarch in the US) 1/2 cup salt 1 ...

42 days ago by Anna @ The Imagination Tree

Here are the Top 10 Play Dough Recipes and Play Ideas from this site in 2011, according to their popularity. As you probably know by now, play dough is one of my play passions and if you haven't already, I hope you will have a go at making your own for the first time or find a new recipe to try from ...

43 days ago by Taylor Wise

We had a wonderful Christmas in the Wise household! I was very pleased how undramatic and laid back it was! On Christmas Eve we went to nana and poppi's house to open presents with them, have lunch, spend time with grandparents and go to Christmas Eve service at Grace Covenant. I can't remember a Ch ...

46 days ago by stlgretchen

Blogger David McElroy has an article about the Christmas presents children receive and how these presents reveal what adults expect of them. He has some interesting thoughts on how children learn to create (or not). I remember one of my favorite gifts at Christmas when I was seven years old. It was ...

47 days ago by Katania

Merry Christmas! I hope your entire day is filled with the wonder and joy of children, delicious food and drink, and warm embraces from close family. I myself am savoring this little piece of quiet heaven before my son wakes up and is so excited about all his presents. Let me just tell you, he's bee ...

48 days ago by Laura

While I'm at it, here's a reliable recipe for salt dough. It's fun to play with and you can color it with food coloring. You can also bake what you make. We often use it to make Christmas ornaments and have used it for handprint ornaments for the Grandmas for Mother's day. To make ornaments just use ...

48 days ago by Laura

This is a recipe Griffin came home from school with and is a variation on good old salt dough. It smells delicious but probably doesn't taste so good! (Though it is edible, just in case your Octopus does eat it.) Recipe: Gingerbread Play Dough 2 cups flour 1 cup salt 1 tbsp. ground ginger 1 tbsp. gr ...