Homemade Craft Recipes

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If you thought you were getting lots of good craft ideas from Ms. Shannon at Teaching Tinytots before, you are in for a bonus round today! We got LOTS of recipes from her to share with you...

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What is mommy school with out homemade craft recipes?

Flour-Based Poster Paint

NEED:

1. 1/4 cup flour
2. 1 cup water
3. Small jars or plastic containers
4. 3 or 4 drops of food coloring or paste (for smelly use kool aid)
5. 2 tablespoons water per container
6. 2- 4 drops of dish soap ( to make it washable)
7. for shiny finish a few drops of corn sryup

TO DO:

1. Measure flour into saucepan.
2. Slowly add 1 cup water while stirring to make a smooth paste.
3. Heat, stirring constantly, until paste begins to thicken.
4. Cool.
5. Measure 1/4 cup paste into each small container.
6. Add food coloring/kool aid
7. Stir well.

*If you want to make a big batch, don't divide into containers!

Store covered.

Stamp Pad

1. Lay some paper towels or napkins onto a paper plate.
2. Pour enough paint to make it stampable but not too much! You might need to spread it around with a paint brush.
3. Now you can stamp anything you want!

Homemade Glue

NEED:

1. 3/4 cup water
2. 2 tablespoons corn syrup
3. 1 teaspoon white vinegar
4. 1/2 cup cornstarch
5. 3/4 cup cold water

TO DO:

1. Mix water, corn syrup and vinegar in a saucepan.
2. Bring to a rolling boil.
3. In a small bowl, mix cornstarch and cold water.
4. Add this mixture slowly to first mixture, stirring constantly.
5. Let stand overnight before using.

Kool-Aid Play Dough

NEED:

1. 1/2 cup salt
2. 2 cups water
3. 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
4. 2 cups flour
5. 2 tablespoons alum
6. 1 envelope unsweetened Kool-Aid,any color/flavor desired

TO DO:

1. Boil salt in water until salt is dissolved.
2. Add Kool-Aid, vegetable oil, flour and alum.
3. Knead or process until smooth.

Keeps for two months or longer.

Imitation Sand

Here is a great recipe for colored sand that will keep forever! Great for crafts or sensory tables

NEED:

1. 1/2 c salt
2. 1/2 c cornmeal
3. 1 1/2 tbsp liquid paint
4. ziploc baggie
5. paper towels/wax paper

TO MAKE:

1. Pour all items in a baggie and seal shut.
2. Give to LO to shake up and lay on paper towels or wax paper to dry!

Imitation Glitter

This is great and wonderful to use w/ real LO's that might put glitter in their mouth! Great for crafts or sensory table too.

NEED:

1. salt
2. food coloring
3. baking sheet

TO MAKE:

1. Mix up the amount of salt you want to make and food coloring
2. Mix well
3. Lay out on a baking sheet and bake in oven at 350 for 10 minslet cool and store!

Glossy Paint

NEED:

1. 1 can sweet condensed milk
2. Pink, Blue and green food coloring
3. 3 bowls

TO MAKE:

1. Add enough food coloring paste to get the desired color depth you want and add just a tad of water to make it more spreadable.

Microwave Bisquick Playdoh

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Here's another fun thing to do by Ms. Shannon at Teaching Tinytots.

To make microwave Bisquick playdoh, you'll need:

1. 2 cups Bisquick
2. 1 cup salt
3. 2 cups water
4. 1 TBSP cream of tartar or alum
5. 1 TBSP oil
6. food coloring or kool aid, or add cocoa, peppermint, pumpkin spice, or whatever strikes your fancy, too!

Pour ALL into a MICROWAVE safe bowl and microwave for 3 minutes. Stop and scrape and stir the bowl.

Microwave for another 3 mins scrape and stir.

It should be ready for kneading now; if not, cook for another minute or so!

This is the closest I can get to real playdoh! Can't get that great fresh playdoh smell, though! Did you know they did a survey and that is the most recognized scent that brings back fond memories?

This and That

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This blog is going to be a miscellany of this and that, kinda like my attention span these days.

Gecko. We found a tiny gecko with the skin falling off his head so you could see the inside. He was missing part of his tail, too. I wanted to play with him (he was a little slower than most), but Mommy wouldn't let me.

Bidet. I put my toothbrush down the bidet drain. (Look up the definition if you don't know what that is, though if you were Portuguese, you would know. The bidet - not the toothbrush. If you don't know what a toothbrush is, shame on you.) Mommy cleverly got it out and drenched it in mouthwash.

Log in Bathtub. I had my first log in bathtub experience. Mommy wants to know what the proper protocol is for this event. Do you grab baby out first, or log out first?

Drinking Water. I love drinking the water in the bathtub. (When reading this entry, ignore the one above, please.) Especially sucking it from my washcloth. What do Mommies do when the tap water is not necessarily safe for drinking?

Bubbles and Play Dough. Mommy made homemade bubbles and play dough for me last week. I tasted both of them and they are NASTY! She's got some serious work to do on those recipes.

Safety Gates. Daddy installed these silly gates around the house that keep me from going places. They still need locks, but we are getting there . . . In the meantime, it messes up my skateboard practice:



Photography Business. Mommy let me use her camera, and I think I am going to start my own photography business. Here is my first photo of some of my favorite things - electrical outlets and phone jacks. Maybe I better not quit my day job just yet, huh?

Tylenol Effect. Last week I was running a low-grade fever, so Mommy gave me some Tylenol. Boy, did that make me feel good! I was jumpin' off the bed and everything! Here is a video of me on Tylenol. (After this, Daddy put the mattress on the floor. Good thing, 'cuz I then proceeded to dive off head first and then cried about it.)