While we try to spend as much time as we can outdoors in the summer, where we live we tend to get a lot of thunderstorms and the humidity can get a bit out of control, so I love having fun summer-inspired sensory play activities like this Watermelon Play Dough ready for the kids. (Next…
Today, I’m excited to share with you my mom’s 10-minute Cinnamon Buns recipe. These are from-scratch cinnamon buns but they are a bit different than my usual cinnamon buns recipe which uses yeast and is a bit more time-consuming. These cinnamon buns can be whipped together in 10 minutes (plus baking time) and are perfect…
I’ve never been one to eat breakfast – I could last on coffee until noon – so I’m always on the look-out for easy healthy breakfast recipes to make the thought of eating breakfast a little more enticing. This Apple Breakfast Loaf Recipe is almost like having cake for breakfast, and it’s simple enough for the kids to make,…
You’ve found it. My embarrassingly large collection of dessert recipes. I swear we subscribe to the 90-10 rule, but boy do we live it up when it comes to that 10%! About once a week I share with you a delicious dessert recipe, and then I save it here for posterity. You can find all…
We are loving homemade play dough kits – after the success of our mermaid play dough kit that we gave out at Ella’s mermaid birthday party, I knew that putting together some Christmas play dough kits for the kids would be a hit! I love creating homemade play dough kits that offer several ways to play…
I love mixing new ingredients into our homemade play dough and seeing what happens. Homemade play dough is so cheap to make, you can really afford to play around with it – and sometimes, that leads to amazing discoveries. Like this homemade bubble gum play dough. It smells, looks, and feels like the real thing!…
We first developed and shared this homemade play dough recipe for no-cook play dough cookies in 2013! It was our first successful no-cook play dough recipe, and I love how gentle it is on children’s skin. I was playing around with some play dough recipes to donate to Ella’s Reggio Emilia daycare, when it occurred…
For our toddler Apple Week, we made this awesome homemade apple play dough and apple play dough invitation. Homemade Apple Play Dough Recipe: Water Vegetable Oil <– you can use melted coconut oil but if it’s cold where you are, it will make the play dough a bit tough at the start of playing (will…
We love sensory activities for kids, especially when they involve homemade play dough. We are in full-swing mermaid obsession in our house, so anything ocean-themed or mermaid-themed is going to be a hit. This homemade play dough invitation can be set up as a big invitation for a group or kids, or set up as a smaller…
It started snowing here in Canada this past week, rather unexpectedly. Some of the daycare kids didn’t even have mittens yet, so our outdoor time was bursts and spurts throughout the week, supplemented by time in the rec room. For some winter sensory play, I thought making some hot chocolate play dough and a batch…
If you have some lemonade lovers at your house, this is the perfect lemonade play dough to whip up for some fun sensory play! This is a no-cook playdough recipe that just involves adding boiling water, which an older child could help with, and makes use of Pink Lemonade drink crystals — I tried using…
Ella loved the pumpkin spice oobleck we made recently, but it is kind of a one-time use sensory activity for kids, so I thought we’d try our hand at a pumpkin spice play dough! We’ve made this pumpkin spice play dough twice now, with a slightly different recipe each time. One version uses…
