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Homemade Playdough Recipe

by beth on December 3, 2009

in home & garden

Some­how I got myself roped into mak­ing home­made play­dough for my daughter’s preschool class. I’m not sure how it hap­pened, except that I may have actu­ally checked off every vol­un­teer box on the form not real­iz­ing I’d, oh, you know, ACTUALLY have to vol­un­teer & do some­thing!! But really play­dough is the eas­i­est home­made craft project. And my arms did get a nice work­out from stir­ring the ingre­di­ents in the pot & knead­ing the dough after.

What you need:

3 Cups Flour
1 1/2 Cups Salt
6 Tea­spoons Cream of Tar­tar
3 Cups Water
3 Table­spoons of Canola or Corn Oil
Food Col­or­ing of your choice!

Add every­thing into a big pot. First the dry ingre­di­ents and then the wet.

OK, now mix it all together after adding in your food col­or­ing. Kids made the choice to add in red, which really looks more pink when all is said & done. The kids also got to do the mix­ing for this part, the next part was all me & the stove top. OK, then it goes to the stove. Cook it on low heat. Stir it OFTEN. It will start to clump up, look a lit­tle lumpy, & form into a ball. Once it is in a ball, you will then turn it in the pan until the sides of your ball are shiny.

It looks like this when you are done, you can place it on a cut­ting board or wax paper & knead it a lit­tle more. I told you it works the arms.

Alright, now play!!

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Mak­ing an All Nat­ural Kitchen Cleaner

Ingre­di­ents You need:

Bak­ing Soda
Lemon Essen­tial Oil
One Shaker

You will want to take ¾ full of a cup of bak­ing soda. Put it into a bowl. Once it is there then mix the bak­ing soda with 20–30 drops of Lemon Essen­tial Oil. After you get it all mixed up you can fill up your shaker with the cleaner. To clean with it just shake cleaner onto the sur­face & wipe it clean with a sponge. If you get any bak­ing soda residue then you can use a scented vine­gar can be used to dis­solve the residue.

Home­made Scented Vine­gar Spray

White Vine­gar
Laven­der or Lemon Essen­tial Oil
16 oz Spray Bottle

Fill the spray bot­tle with the white vine­gar
Mix in 20–30 drops of Essen­tial Oil of your choosing

Then you can just spray it on any sur­face that you have bak­ing soda residue.

Enjoy! Espe­cially since you can get the kids involved now & not worry about what they are clean­ing with. Let them help, you can super­vise ;)

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How to Make  Air Deodorizer

Ingre­di­ents you need:

Bak­ing Soda
White Vine­gar
Water
Lemon-Essential Oil
One 16 oz.Spray Bottle

Add 1 tsp Bak­ing Soda into the bot­tle
Add 1tsp White Vine­gar
Mix in 2 cups water
Then Mix in 10 drops Lemon- Essen­tial Oil 

Sim­i­lar to the home­made fur­ni­ture pol­ish you go to use it don’t for­get to shake it well, then you are free to go on your deodor­iz­ing merry way.

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New Cloth Diaper Covers

by beth July 1, 2009

I got some new cloth dia­per cov­ers for D-man in the mail the other day. They are Bum­mis SuperBrites, he needed to bump up to the medi­ums. They are now all clean & ready to go. They go over an Indian pre­fold that is dia­per ser­vice qual­ity, with a lit­tle snappi to hold it all […]

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