How Did it Really Go?

Friday morning I had a few crafts I wanted to try with the girls. Thursday I took out what I needed so it would be easy and at arms reach to do the craft.

I thought it would be funny to share the fails and accomplishments of our crafts.

First was noise makers. I took two plates left over from their birthday party, laid some dry rice on one plate, taped a spoon to it and turned the other plate over on top of it. I taped the ends together and ta-da! Plate maraca's!

How did it really go? The girls kept trying to scoop the dry rice with their spoons as I was prepping the plates and cried cause I wouldn't let them eat it. They were impatient and started to fiddle with the plates and I ended up getting impatient with the mess they were making.
When I finally finished them they used them as make shift swords and smacked them into each others and the floor causing little bits of rice to fly out of unseen holes left open in them.
They weren't made for such torture and were flimsy.
The only thing that truly occupied them with the noise makers was the 30 seconds they took to color them.

Next! I had yarn and cheerio's and wanted to make cheerio necklaces to work on their fine motor skills, play with and munch on.

How did it really go?? Lilly held the ball of yarn while I went to get scissors and the Cheerio's and for some reason the ball of yarn scared the daylights out of Rose. So Rose came screaming after me for safety while Lilly followed with her big wad of yarn. Rose tried to climb on top of my head.
Lilly ran back to the living room and managed to get yarn wrapped around her torso and leg, and when I say wrapped I mean it was draped over her some and it was just sticking to her.
Nevertheless she freaked out and cried about it.
I removed it and cut them each and myself a string and showed them what to do.
I had placed the Cheerio's in cups for them to easily access. Instead of putting it on string they played with the cups, pouring the cereal in and out of them, then found toy buckets and poured them in and out of there.
Lilly tried to eat off the string I had put some cereal on and looked at me angry after her attempt. Like what kind of sick joke was this I was playing on her.
I ended up just pulling them off the string and into her bucket. Grabbed a couple more cups and said to go to town.
They had more fun pouring the stuff back and forth in different things.

Later a small piece of yarn was found by the girls on the couch and they both watched over it like it was an alien. I picked it up and they had shear amazement of my super power to pick up and not fear the piece of yarn.

Yesterday.
I made play dough.
It was a new recipe I tried where I didn't have to cook it. Which I thought would make it faster. It probably would have been but I made the clay then tried to add food coloring after cause I wanted divide it up to make different colors. But the color is suppose to go in before its mixed and still wet so it combines easy. I ended up with quite a good work out kneading it over and over to get the color in.

The recipe was:
3 Cups of flour
1 Cup of cold water
1 Cup of salt
2 Tsp of oil
Food coloring

I only made half the amount to test it and make sure it was worth using again.
It turned out too dry, I added more water and oil till I felt it was more pliable but it still felt a bit dry.

How did it really go?? Not bad! Lilly, my mini chef in training, loves to help in the kitchen. She had fun helping me make the play dough and then we sat on the kitchen floor and played.
Rose and Daniel joined in and we spent a lot of time and had a lot of fun sticking toothpicks in them, making balls and rolling them, shaping them into animals and listening to the girls make the animal sounds. It was definitely worth it in the end but I would use a different recipe next time. The dough was drying out as we were playing.

Last night we prepped the girls for their bath and I took an ice cube tray and added to each mold:
1 part Cornstarch
1 part Water
1 drop of Soap from their bath soap
& 1drop of Food coloring

Mixed each one and made about 8 colors. Grabbed a couple paint brushes and let them go to town painting the tub.

How did it really go??
WONDERFUL! It was so fun! The girls played and played and probably would have played all night if we didn't end it at one point. They colored the walls of the tub and sides, talked about the colors and I praised their amazing art work. I enjoyed it as much as they did and I wasn't even coloring. I loved watching them play and experiment all's while getting messy in a place that was easy to clean and clean them as they played.
The one drop of color made the paint vibrant but never colored them or the water enough to stain them or make it difficult to clean them.
Rose pretended to paint her nails at one point which was adorable to watch.
When we were done I just used the bath water as it drained to clear off the walls and took just a few seconds to clean!
Totally going to be our new activity during bath!!

Never know how it will really go until we do it. But if it doesn't go well, it's funny to look back on and laugh. And if it goes well, then we have something new to keep the girls having fun!