Playdoh recipe edit

I just wanted to let you know I've edited the playdoh recipe as I realised I'd missed an ingredient. This is the actual recipe:

Microwave Playdoh

1 cup plain flour

1/4 cup salt

2 tbsp Cream of Tartar

1 tbsp cooking oil

1 cup hot tap water

food colouring

Sift dry ingredients together

If you want to colour the whole batch add colourng to water

Add in liquids and stir well

Cook on high in microwave for 30 second increments, stirring between each.

Its ready when it forms a ball and is not sticky.

Let cool a little

Turn out and knead on surface for a minute to make a nice soft dough.

If the mix isn't coloured, you can knead in colour now.

Store in an airtight container in the fridge to prolong its life

Reheat on very low for 1 minute ot warm and soften if required

Gift ideas #4

Oh how could I forget! My eldest will be getting his first bike! There are great ones with a push handle which controls the steering but unfortunately they are too small for my tall boy.

Gift ideas - found!

I've found one of my gift idea's! Soccer nets and at a nice price too. Available from Sam's Warehouse. I'm off to get a set today to put away for gift time.

Gift Ideas #3

A quick idea for Christmas for the rellies kids. Seeing as I have to post them over, I could make a batch of playdoh as I have a lovely and smooth recipe, colour it up a few different ways and parcel it up with some tools and the recipe.

Incase you are interested, my great recipe is from one of my friends.

1 cup plain flour

1 /4 cup salt

2 tbsp Cream of Tartar

1 tbsp cooking oil

1 cup hot tap water

food colouring

Sift dry ingredients together

If you want to colour the whole batch add colourng to water

Add in liquids and stir well

Cook on high in microwave for 30 second increments, stirring between each.

Its ready when it forms a ball and is not sticky.

Let cool a little

Turn out and knead on surface for a minute to make a nice soft dough.

If the mix isn't coloured, you can knead in colour now.

Store in an airtight container in the fridge to prolong its life

Reheat on very low for 1 minute ot warm and soften if required

Gift Ideas #2

I'm gathering idea's for gifts for my own boys who will be 2 in August and 4 in February with Christmas in between.

The first two I have 'stolen/borrowed' these idea's for gifts for my own boys from the blog Two Straight Lines.

Kids sized gardening tools (available from Big W)

Butterfly nets ( still looking for these)

A larger slide than the 2 ft high one we have ( haven't looked for this yet)

A set of soccer goals that are moveable and we can pack away ( nor this)

Build a sandpit. I like this one from Ohdeedoh

There were more I know.... but I can't think of them right now

Gift ideas #1

With birthdays and Christmas galloping towards us, I am starting to collect ideas.

I think I might make this for one of my boy's cousins who has their 3rd birthday just before Christmas.

Image via Ohdeedoh

The cone is made from brown felt or card, strawberries from red felt, banana's from yellow, cherries are small red pompoms, the icecream scoops are differnt coloured large pompoms and brown wool for chocolate sauce. As this is for a 3 year old who has a 1 year old sister, I will ommit the sequins for sprinkles.

All via Ohdeedoh

What to do, what to do......?

My eldest has started back at daycare today. he used to go to a community daycare one day a week before we moved interstate ( 9 months ago now - doesn't time fly?). We felt it really helped his development as he has a language delay so we have put him in for one day a week here. I've rung the centre and they said he is doing fine, which is what I expected. He is a very flexible child and not much perturbs him. The ladies at the center seem lovely too and I like their set up of lots of activities that the kids can go between as the fancy takes them interspersed with structured things like stories and dancing.

Now back to my question - What to do?

My youngest son still has a nap of a couple of hours during the middle of the day. This leaves me with a dilemma. Should I use this time to blitz the housework and do those things that you just can't do with 2 small boys running around, like wash the floors, or should I use this as 'me' time to sit and read a book, magazine or do something else I no longer get the time to do (Oh to watch a movie or sew!)?

I know I probably should use it as 'me' time but I can't relax knowing there are the other chores to do, so I think it will be housework time for a few weeks until I get on top of it and actually finish unpacking! Maybe I can start to get more housework done in the 2 hours between dropping one off at daycare and going to playgroup with the other, then I won't feel so bad about doing what I want to do.