Friday

GINGERBREAD playdough!



Just the thought of this makes me happy.  Memories of playing with play dough and the smell of Christmas all wrapped into one! (seriously - the play dough smells so good and spicy!!)




Mix dry ingredients.  Next mix water and oil together than add to dry ingredients.  Put in sauce pan cook on medium 2-3 minutes.
Stir constantly till dough pulls away from sides. 


Today was messy hair day/princess dress up for my daughter!
 Take out and knead - sprinkle cinnamon on the table to make it easier and get the right constancy.  Store in closed container.

        *be sure and get your cinnamon cheap - I go to the dollar store.

        *I split up the piles and added red glitter to one and gold to the other. 

        *You could skip the cinnamon and replace it with more flour and add peppermint extract to make peppermint play dough! 

        *Put this in a zip lock bag with the top cut off cute christmas bag, tie on a ribbon and make  that tag to give as a gift!


Unfortunately non of the above recipes is eatable.  I heard you can do 1c peanut butter, 1 c dry powdered milk and 2-3 tbsp of honey for an eatable play dough variation!  Why not throw in some cinnamon to that mixture too!

While I wasn't looking (I sware I put the food coloring far away from her) somehow my daughter managed to find the bottles and while I was typing up this post, proceded to pour it all over her play dough. . As mad as I was the crazy blogger sweet side of me came out and I thought well at least this will add some humor to the post! And BTW, it makes it a very DEEP brown with the additional food coloring!

Oh she knew she was in trouble!

A glittery gingerbread angel :-)

EASY as THAT!  Happy Holidays from Creative Juices Decor!




13 comments:

Kira @ Kissing the Joy said...

Heehee, fun! I wouldn't have thought to add spices to my play-doh, but I bet it does make it smell great. My kids *love* play-doh. Great job on the digi scrapping! That gnome on the recipe was funny.

Jana said...

What a fun idea!

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Kelsey said...

What a fun idea! And the pics of your daughter are too cute. They always know when they're doing something *naughty* don't they;).

Heather - CDO said...

I'm going to make these to give to my daughter's friends as gifts! Thank you for the wonderful idea! One of her friends is giving her a hand made tie dyed tshirt and I was wondering what we could possibly make that would be an "equal" gift. This is it!!

DANA said...

I found you through Polly Want a Crafter and I love this! I wanted to invite you to enter my $50 American Express gift card giveaway that ends in a few days! I also have a link party going on this week! Keep up the good blogging! -Dana

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LivingSoAbundantly said...

So clever! I love how you used it as a gift tag. I am so going to steal this idea and do it next year. :)

Erin said...

How fun!! :)

Oh....and my hands look like that most of the time too. Except I like to play in paint and aging mediums and distressing ink. Red and green is much cheerier looking. ;)

Erin said...

BTW, I'm so glad you stopped by my blog today!! I'm now a follower! :)

Sassy Sites! said...

We featured you over at Sassy Sites for our kid craft party! Come by and check it out!! Have a very Merry Christmas!

http://sassysites.blogspot.com/2010/12/more-christmas-crafts-for-kids.html

xoxo Marni

Cheryl said...

Tasty & fun! I've featured this today, so be sure to grab a featured on button. Thanks for linking to Craftastic Monday:)

Nancy said...

I think I'm having a messsy hair princess kind of day too! Thanks for sharing this recipe! Please visit me at http://funwithnancy.blogspot.com
I'd love to have you follow back.
Thanks!

Hershey's Moma said...

Now that is clever. We make playdough all the time but I've never thought to add spices. My kids are gonna love adding them- 1/2 cup even!

Hi, I'm Laura Ingalls Gunn said...

Wow! You are a Christmas crafting genius! So glad I found your project via Centsational Girl.

Please stop by for a visit to my blog. I am currently in the midst of a Gifts to Make series.

Be Merry and Bright!

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