PLAY-DOUGH

Today we made a homemade play-dough!! It was so much fun, the students LOVED it. We used vibrant colors to dye the dough and they turned out great. We used Easter cookie cutters to play in the dough, which was a blast!! It was also really interesting to see the children's reaction when I told them we used FLOUR and it was different than FLOWERS. hehehe... that age is so adorable.

5 things I'm thankful for:

1) my students
2) family
3) nick@nite
4) rabbit, rabbit! (it's April 1st!)
5) Easter Bunny in Training book (I read it again to them today and they loved it- AGAIN)

If you're interested, here's the simple recipe:


Homemade Play-Dough
2 cups flour
1/2 cup salt
3/4 cups water
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Food coloring
1 egg, beaten

Mix together and knead until smooth. Add more flour if needed. Separate into parts and add a few drops of different colors of food coloring.

Optional: Make shapes and brush egg over the top. Put shapes on a cookie sheet and bake in the oven at 300 F degrees for about one hour until the clay is golden. Seal with shellac to make shiny. Paint them for fun.

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I decided to make a digital "vision board." It is made up of pictures that represent the things that I want in life. For example health, love, happiness, success in teaching, etc. =) I got the idea from the movie, "The Secret" which is also a book. http://www.thesecret.tv/

My top five for today:

1) Tia, Sport and Marley
2) My Vera Wang Boots
3) My pillow
4) April =)
5) Homemade play-dough (it's gonna be FUN!)

Tomorrow, we are making HOMEMADE play-dough as a class!! We're going to make eggs and bunnies, then bake them so we can keep them. I hope it turns out as planned! I tried the dough but I didn't try to bake them yet. I'm quite excited!

Catch up some more tomorrow... bye!

It's been a long while...

Student teaching has me pretty busy, but I thought I would post the five things I am thankful for right now:

1) My family
2) The kids at school
3) Computers
4) Marley Sport and Tia
5) Saturdays