Mom's Day at Preschool & Homemade Playdough Recipe

I recently had the pleasure of attending 'Mom's Day' at Paige's preschool.  Very exciting to see what this four year old does during the days she spends there.  She took me by the hand, straight to the playdough table.  At the school, fresh playdough is made weekly {recipe below}.  Always with a different color and this week the color was baby blue.    Tons of fun to roll out the dough and use the cookie cutters.  I was told the playdough table is one of Paige's favorites.

Then as a suprise to us moms, we were given an assignment to draw a family portrait with our child.  WHAT!  Stick figures are my forte.  I don't draw and I was not amused with this idea.  But I showed no signs of uncomfortableness.....at least not to Paige anyway.  I pulled up my big girl's pants, took a deep breath and sat in a kiddie chair next to Paige and preceeded to help Paige draw our family portrait.

Basically, Paige told me what clothes she thought everyone should wear in the picture and picked out all the colors for me.  Even down to the pink bow in her portrait.  I drew myself, Paige, Bryce and Chloe and Paige drew her daddy and I think she attempted to draw herself as well.

Masterpiece.  It now hangs in Paige's room.  {I think I'll stick with the playdough and cookie cutters}

Homemade Playdough Recipe

Ingredients:

1 cup water

1 T vegetable oil

1/2 cup salt

1 T cream of tartar

Food coloring

1 cup flour

Directions:

Combine the water, oil, salt, cream of tartar and food coloring of your choosing in a saucepan and heat until warm.  Remove from the heat and add the flour.  Stir and knead until smooth.  Store in an airtight container or Ziploc bag.  Do not refrigerate.

Tip: save your containers from store bought cake frosting {or something similar}- perfect for storing playdough!

Happy Thursday!

This is a fun project to make with your kids during the upcoming holidays!  If you would like to share this recipe, feel free to click the 'Like' button for your facebook friends, or copy and paste the link to this post and share it:)