Kidz Korner

                  Homemade Playdough Recipe
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
Add 1 cup water
1 tablespoon cooking oil
food coloring
Stirring constantly cook for 3 minutes until it pulls away from the pot.  Kneed and store in a tupperware container.
Lasts much longer than store bought!




                            Holiday Ornaments
1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups cinnamon and nutmeg mix
1 cup salt
1 cup water
Holdiay cookie cutters
1 straw
Step 1. Mix all the ingredients together.  Add more water if dough is dry and does not hold together.
Step 2.  Have your child knead the dough and then roll it out to a disc 1/4 thick.
Step 3. Show your child how to cut out shapes from the dough using cookie cutters.
Step 4. Use the straw to poke a small hole in the top of the ornament.
Step 5. Bake at 300 degrees for 1/2 hour or until the ornaments are hard.
Age group 18-40 months
Duration of activity:45 minutes
I got this from Wyatt's Early Head Start teacher Miss Jodi.
This is a great and fun project for the whole family!




                           Games our kids really enjoy:
Ages 5 and 3


Guess Who                                      Go Fish
Twister                                             Slap Jack
Cootie                                              War
Don't Break the Ice                          Just Dance for Wii
Hullabaloo                                    Lego Pirates of the Carribean   






Scavanger Hunts are a BIG hit with our kids. 
We make up little rhymes,
about 4 to 6 lines, and send them all over the place,
Outside inside left and right,
We watch them run with all their might,
And when their done,
And they've found the last clue,
We tell them GREAT JOB!!!
Here's a suprise for you! ( it's amazing how far little kids will run around just to get that little bag of candy at the end LOL)



Recipe for Oobleck
1 cup of Cornstarch
1/2 cup of water
a couple drops of food coloring for fun
That's it.

In the cooking world we call this a Rue.  It's used to thicken soups and gravies.  But in a child's world, it's called Oobleck!



Make a time capsule

Start with an old coffee can.  You can let your kids paint it if you want or just leave it plain.  Sit down and think of some questions to ask your kids.  Kind of like an interview.  Ask them their favorite things, what they want to be when they grow up, write down some of their funny words or sayings.  You can put in some pictures, drawings, cards, notes.  Ask them to pick out a  small toy or figurine, for example my kids have tons of How to Train your Dragon figures and they put one each in ours.  I also put in Wyatt's binky.  You could even take video of them making it and then put the video in the capsule.  Of coarse you'll have to wait until spring to bury it but you can continue to add things to it until then.  When spring comes bury your capsule, somewhere you won't forget, with your kids.  You can even make a treasure map to it.  Decide how many years you'll wait to open it and put your map somewhere safe.  You could even frame your map and hang it up as an exciting reminder of the treasure you will one day find.  I promise you your kids will love this, now you just have to find a way to keep them from digging it up until your ready!