My friend Jennifer and I are always joking how we should never even bother with toys for our children because they are so much more interested in EVERYTHING but their toys. Her son Wylie much prefers the dog toys to his own and Charissa likes, well, rocks. And clothespins. And the empty coffee container. So I have decided to take on the challenge of making a new toy each week out of stuff I have around the house already.
Right now, Charissa loves to collect and sort anything, hence the rocks and clothespins. She moves things from place to place, puts them into different containers, hands them to me, over and over and over. With this in mind, I decided to make play dough. Yeah... I don't really see the connection either, but it worked out anyway. I used the old stand by recipe of 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt and 1 cup water. I found a recipe for cooked playdough, but that's way too complicated for me. A little food coloring completed the project. Combined with some mixing bowls and of course, nakedness, the playdough was a big hit. We played with it for a very long time. She squished and tore and sorted and made funny noises when I rolled the playdough into little balls. (Wish I could describe that, but really it was indescribable)In fact, I think I was bored of it before she was! Even after we put away the other colors, she insisted on carrying around the yellow in the plastic baggie.
First homemade toy = successful. Now on to some others. It's kind of fun hunting through the house for thin
gs I can mak
e into new toys for the Little B
ee!
Right now, Charissa loves to collect and sort anything, hence the rocks and clothespins. She moves things from place to place, puts them into different containers, hands them to me, over and over and over. With this in mind, I decided to make play dough. Yeah... I don't really see the connection either, but it worked out anyway. I used the old stand by recipe of 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt and 1 cup water. I found a recipe for cooked playdough, but that's way too complicated for me. A little food coloring completed the project. Combined with some mixing bowls and of course, nakedness, the playdough was a big hit. We played with it for a very long time. She squished and tore and sorted and made funny noises when I rolled the playdough into little balls. (Wish I could describe that, but really it was indescribable)In fact, I think I was bored of it before she was! Even after we put away the other colors, she insisted on carrying around the yellow in the plastic baggie.
First homemade toy = successful. Now on to some others. It's kind of fun hunting through the house for thin
gs I can mak
e into new toys for the Little B
ee!
