Homemade PlayDough Recipe with KoolAid! How to Make The Dough for Homemade Birthday or Christmas Ornaments, Paw Print Ornaments, Handprint or Footprint Ornaments - babies, children, pets, dogs, cats! Or any print you wanna make! #LOL! #Christmas #Ornaments #Birthday, too!

Kids LOVE playing with PlayDough, and it's good to know how to make your own Homemade PlayDough, the easy way - and you can add a package of flavored KoolAid to your playdough, for smell and color - you'll love it, the kids will love it - lol! 

Play Dough Recipe

2 Cups Flour

3/4 Cup Salt

4 Tsp Cream of Tartar OR, and this is the best part, 4 Tsp Cornstarch

2 Cups Hot Water (So the salt will melt)

2 Tbsp Oil

Food Coloring, or the Package of KoolAid 

Vanilla in your PlayDough makes it smell nice, too! 

Lemon Juice in your PlayDough is nice, too, if your kids like Lemon! Lol! 

You can cook your homemade PlayDough on the stove, or use hot water to melt the salt, first - whichever is easiest for you! 

Save your containers with a lid, will keep your Homemade PlayDough pliable, longer 

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Have fun! 

Have children roll out the PlayDough into 'snakes', use a rolling pin, so they can cut out shapes, or just squish it in their little hands - lol! 

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If you want to make a handprint, footprint, or paw print Christmas Ornament, here's the recipe for the dough - squish it together, add food coloring, if you like, roll it out, use a cookie cutter, press onto the dough, then bake! You can paint them, too!

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1 Cup Hot Water
1 Cup Salt
2 Cups Flour
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Poke one hole for hanging up your ornament, 2 holes if you want to string a ribbon through your ornament!

Bake at 250 for 2 hours, OR,
Bake at 350 for 20 minutes, keep an eye on them - lol!

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This is fun to do on Christmas Day, too!
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You can do these Flower Vase paintings with your pet's paws, or with your children's handprints or footprints - depends on how old they are - hahahaha! the over-50 crowd wil definitely want to do it, though - hahahahahaha!

Use a nice safe paint, not an oil paint - lol! 

Have fun! Be sure to clean off their paws, hands and feet, when you're done! LOL!

Gorgeous Crystal Gem Trees - Perfect for Holiday Gifts! TheraTrees, they're great Therapy! lol! On Sale, Today!

Gorgeous Crystal Gem Trees - Perfect for Holiday Gifts! TheraTrees, they're great Therapy! lol! On Sale, Today!

I love to make Gem Trees, Crystal Trees - they are soo gorgeous! 

I love them, and everyone I've given them to, loves them, too!

I've figured out a way for you to give them out as Holiday Gifts, and keep one for yourself, too! 

You'll definitely want to keep at least one for yourself, they're so pretty, and you'll be amazed at your wonderful work, if you choose to make them, yourself! 😍

And if you want to buy them already made, I can do that for you, too! 

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(Great for a Workshop at work, too! The TheraTrees are great for getting people talking, they're very relaxing and fun to make!)

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For real gems, I can custom make your VERY fancy Gem Tree!

And if you want ME to run a Workshop for you at your Work Conference, I would be happy to do that, too! (I have all sorts of skills up my sleeve! lol!)

Just Choose Your Color, or Mix and Match the Colors


Yay! You could get all your Christmas Presents and Holiday Shopping done in one place! 

AND, I put the Gem Trees right IN my Christmas Tree - is absolutely gorgeous - they catch the light when the Christmas Lights are on, and even during the day, when the Christmas Lights aren't on, just yet - lol! 

I put Gem Sprigs in Wedding Bouquets, too - they are lovely in your own Wedding Bouquet, and you can choose to make different colors to match your Bridesmaids Colors! You just make them, stick them right in the Bouquets, is stunning! 

Everyone loves a little extra Sparkle, baby! 

I put the Gem Trees in my Plants, too - so pretty! I love the way they catch the light - so they're all over my house, in the plants on the balcony - haha! I Love Them So Much, and you will, too, baby-cakes!

I make Earrings, too! 

Earring Enhancers, they pop in behind your Earrings - they transform your earrings into something brand new!

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DIY Bird Houses - Perfect for #Easter, Parents and Teachers, The Kids Will Love Painting These #BirdHouses #Art #Teaching #Parenting #SoCute! #Birds

DIY Bird Houses 

Perfect for #Easter, Parents and Teachers, 

The Kids Will Love Painting These #BirdHouses 

#Art #Teaching #Parenting 

It's For The Birds! haha!

Look what I just found in a Google Search for Bird Houses, for a little joke I was Tweeting (ironically enough - haha! Tweet, Tweet!) 

Anyway, look how easy this would be to make - and I'm sure I saw little wooden Bird Houses at the Dollar Store - this would be a great Art Project for yourself, for the kids, for a whole group of kids (let's say they're in a classroom - haha!)

And you know the little stencils you can get? That could be good...

And the wallpaper that used to go around the top, bottom or middle of a room - remember that? I'm sure you can still get that, but you could measure it out, glue it on the bird houses - would be soo cute!

And did you notice the tiny bird house, outside this little bird house? How crazy-cute is THAT?? Soo cute! 

And the milk jugs? Omg, it's adorable!

Great for Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day - or just a fun project to do, just to make you happy, right? Is s pretty! 

Let me go get the rest of the pictures, to give you more examples, and I didn't paint this, myself, but if you did, please let me know! lol! AND, Good Job!! Haha! 

I just threw this one in, because - hello, look how cool this is! 

More of a Bird Castle - haha! 

I would like the West Wing - perfect for the birds! hahaha!

This is a great exercise to teach kids how to paint flowers, how to use cotton Q-Tips, dipped in paint, to dab on the flowers... lots of great painting techniques you can teach, with this : )

Layering - where you show the kids how to put the first layer of paint down, the base layer, then gradually add more on...the windows, the base, the door, the green part of the bushes, then dab on the flowers in different colors - omg, they're gonna have so much fun! 

Flowers around the 'Front Entrace, as it were - lol! Soo pretty! 

If you're teaching this to a class, put the pics up for them to use as a base - they can either copy the pictures, or use them as a starting off point, and then they can go from there - just so cute! 

 This is so pretty - do a complete color wash with your favorite color, add the windows and the flowers, then the base - and did you see the little walkway to the door? Haha! I loove these little bird houses! Very creative!

The front windows on either side of the door - lol! I love it! So sweet! Stylish! : )

Ooh, and a little paint on the roof, too - interesting! 

You could go with a red roof, or a green roof... or a blue roof - so many options! 

Maaah!! Shutters on the Bird House - I love it! So cute! 

You know, I'm just thinking, here - what if you were really trying to keep costs down, could you use old milk or juice cartons? Cut them 8 - 10 inches from the bottom (cleaned out, of course - lol!), use the top of the carton for the roof, the juice carton already has a little round spout, right? That might totally work - try it! See how it looks! 

I think it's a great exercise to get the kids to think outside the box, too, so-to-speak, so they will start to look at everything they have, for an alternative use, that way, we'll raise another generation of people who can renew, reuse, and recycle, right? lol! 

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