School/kids crafts

Pasta necklace!

14:22 Natalie Karine 1 Comments

Here's a kindergarten classic: crafts with macaroni! Kids love em' AND its super cheap... & natural! This week we made some beautiful necklaces with painted jumbo macaroni (the best ones are cylinders like Penne)! One little girl even tried to wear hers to bed that same night!

What you need:
     ☆ Pasta
     ☆ Tempera paint
     ☆ Paintbrushes
     ☆ Wax paper
     ☆ Yarn or ribbon

#1 paint the noodles!

#2 String the noodles!

#3 Tie a knot! ta-dam! so fancy!!

School/kids crafts

Best Play Dough

07:00 Natalie Karine 0 Comments

Hi there! Saturday morning, 9am and I'm already at it... Making play dough!Do you know how much I love home made play dough? It's so easy and cheap to make and you can make all these beautiful colors! At work/school, it's a classroom essential. Perfect for practicing those fine motors skills and creativity! Here is a great recipe I found on this blog. 

  Play Dough Recipe:
     ☆ 1 cup white flour
     ☆ 1/2 cup salt
     ☆ 2 Tbsp cream of tatar (spice)
     ☆ 1 Tbsp oil
     ☆ 1 cup water
     ☆ food coloring

Instructions: Mix the first 5 ingredients in a cooking pot (over medium heat) and stir well until all clumps disappear. Add a couple drops of food coloring. Eventually the dough will form one massive clump and will become difficult to stir. Transfer onto a sheet a aluminum foil and let cool for a minute or two. Then make sure to kneed it for a couple minutes, until it become beautiful play dough! Hooray!

Enjoy xo

Busy hand at play!

I had some fun too!