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!

The Three Bears - A Speech Fugue #ChildrensBooks #Children #WinnieThePooh and #Piglet, too! #Songs #Music #FunForKids #Fugue #Bears #Teaching #TeachingTips #ManageYourClassroom #ReadMore

Yep, I DO send a Big Bear Hug to you, and directly to you!

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  #WinnieThePooh, and Piglet, too! Always, always, soo sweet! #LoveLoveLove!

And, for adults, and teens - anyone, any age, really - remember to read, or, re-read, The Tao of Pooh, and The Te of Piglet - beautiful little books, you'll love them! : )

So, I'm a teacher, and I loove to teach music, and I love to add some music into almost any class I teach - if I can figure out a way to sneak in some music, I'm there....Oh, and normally I'm a Special Education Teacher, that's my very favourite thing to do, I love it soo much, I just add music in wherever I can, and I started out as a Kindergarten Teacher, and my students just got older and older and older - all the way up to 92 - no kidding! lol! I love them all! Gimme a student, I'll teach them! and happy to do it!  : )

If you are a teacher, and you want another technique for managing your class, especially in the older grades, just use some music - when you are at that stage in your classroom where your students are working quietly (or, are supposed to be working quietly), just turn on some good music - not crap music, that won't work - bah'hahahaha!  But, you know, turn on some good music.

I do this quietly, when the class is 'new-to-me', and don't already know that I'm doing this.

Anyway, when everyone's working nicely, just go and turn the music on.  The kids will notice.  If things get out of hand, or beyond where you want them to be, just go and turn it off. You can explain it, if you want to, but they'll know what's happening with a good look - lol! You must master 'the look'! And it can be a kind look, too, doesn't have to be all stern and mean - sometimes, it does, depending on the class, or what's going down in your classroom, but, generally, when the kids know and respect you, they'll catch on, right away, and get back down to business.

Music is a great reward.

Music Builds Brains!  And Humor Builds Brains!  Build Bigger Brains - lol!

Oh, so here's what I started out wanting to tell you about - lol!

If you are ever teaching The Three Bears, or teaching your students about Speech Fugues, this is a really fun one, and age doesn't mater, everyone loves it - it's funny, you'll all laugh - and I think Laughter in a Classroom is essential - more laughter, more learning. A happy student is a student who wants to be there, who is more open to learning...in any subject.

So here's the Speech Fugue:

The Three Bears

Use your best low-pitched, Papa Bear voice, then your sweet Mama Bear voice, then you're high-pitched, cute, Baby Bear voice - you'll love it! Is hilarious! lol!

Papa Bear: I'm hun-gry. I'm hun-gry. I'm emp-ty - inside. (Repeat)

Baby Bear: Me, too! (Right at the end of Papa Bear's line, Repeat)

Mama Bear (Right after Baby Bear says, "Me, too!"): 

I'm cookin' in the kitchen, I'm cookin' in the kitchen, I'm cookin' in the kitchen for Ba-by Bear,

I'm cookin' in the kitchen, I'm cookin' in the kitchen, I'm cookin' in the kitchen for Pa-pa Bear...  (Repeat)

And you'll now be in a full Round!

Just keep going until everyone breaks down in laughter - you'll have so much fun!

Oh, and here's how I even thought of this, today.. my 15 year old son was in the kitchen, saying, "I'm hungry" - so, of course, me breaks into song, with Papa Bear's, "I'm Hun-gry, I'm hun-gry, I'm emp-ty, inside - Me, too!"...and then I did the entire speech fugue - bah'hahahaah!

Luckily, I've raised a couple of very, very, funny children, so Aidan laughed, and I must've made him something yummy for dinner! hahaha! (Of course, Aidan is very adept in the kitchen - it's soo important for parents to teach their children well - did you like that? A little throwback for you, there, a little Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.... Teach Your Children Well... haha!  Anyway, and, I digress, as always... lol... but it's so important to teach your children to cook and clean for themselves, to manage money, truly understand everything it takes to be a good and successful, healthy adult, and then they can become good parents, too... see how it all comes around, full circle? All that, from one little funny Speech Fugue! lol!  And that all needs to be taught in the schools, too
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To Happy Children (and Happy Everyone!!), Ailsa : )



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 Okay, this just makes me laugh, so there's the laughter part of the program, right there - bah'hahahaha! 

And if you have students who are afraid to sing, or, for some reason, think they can't sing, show them this picture, guaranteed they'll know the song, will immediately 'sing' i, done.  You're on the way, you've broken the ice, and now you can all have lots of fun - and laughs, I hope! : )

Looks cute - the Bears, they're all circumspect! lol! 

 Hahaha!  This just made me laugh! "Again, Goldilocks?? Come on!"

 Well, this is perfect - yum, mah' fave - Porridge! (It really is my fave!!)
I love Porridge!! 

Ooh, just thought, you can make porridge with your whole class, add milk, or brown sugar and cinnamon, or some fruit - teach the kids how to make porridge and how delicious and healthy oatmeal is : )  #GoodPlan! lol!

 Well, this looks hilarious!  I would totally read this to my kids - at school, or at home! lol! 

 Okay, this litte link will take you straight to Goatilocks and the three bears, by Erica S. Perl, and illustrated by Arthur Howard- looks hilarious!

Oh, and as a little aside, I always told my students who the author was, and who was the illustrator - that's valuable information for a child to know : )

 Look how happy the Baby Bear is?  So happy!!

 Well, you know this just makes me laugh!  I love Roald Dahl!! 

 Oh, hmmm, now I can't remember, but pretty sure I just linked this to Goldilocks and the Three Bears - I make it easy fo' you!! lol!

 Looks very cute! 

       The original Goldilocks??  Uh-oh!

 Ruh-roh!  You gotta watch out for those Goldilocks Girls! lol!  

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 Don't we all love coloring??  You'd be surprised how much your students, all the way through High School, will work hard to get to color - it's hilarious, and a lot of fun!  And coloring is a very good way to get a conversation going, if there's something difficult to talk about, or you want to talk gently with your students - and it can be used as a management technique, in any situation, where you want to make people feel at ease, and to talk freely... just a little Art Therapy, right there! : )



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Here's something else to do with Bears - Gummy Bears! lol!  I love the Gummy Vitamins, and I have to get the Gummy Vitamins for Children, because they're the only Gummy Vitamins I could find that have real sugar, since I don't eat any fake sugar - yick! Plus, I'm allergic to it - it makes mah' mouff all funny... so, real sugar it is! Anyway, we were buying the Disney Vitamins - we have the Disney Princess Vitamins, right now - don't think my son is thrilled about that, but I loved them because they have the Sour Gummy Vitamins - yum! Deeelish, right? lol!

But now they don't sell the Disney Gummy Vitamins with that delicious Sour Sugar on the outside (where we live, in BC, Canada, anyway... Lucky Americans, I bet they still get delicious sugary Disney Treats! lol!), so here's my oh-so-clever fix... I just add in a handful of our regular Sour Gummy Bears, in with the Gummy Vitamins, give it a good shake, and then just make sure you get one regular Sour Gummy Bear with your one or two Gummy Vitamins - There, no more icky taste! Yahoo!  Problem solved!

 I just linked this ad to our fave Disney Gummy Vitamins - yum!

#Getty Free Class Trips to The Getty Villa and The Getty Center - So Great for Everyone! #Teachers #Students #HuntingtonGardens #Gardens #ClassTrips

The Getty Villa in Malibu (Pacific Palisades), California - soo gorgeous, a great place to go, yourself, or with your family and friends : )

And if you happen to be a teacher, June 1st is the starting date to pop into the Getty Villa website to book a trip for your class. http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/trippack/index.html

I think there is a special category for Title I schools, too, so be sure to pop into the Getty site, see what you can get for your students - all sorts of lesson plan ideas, too, and there should be some good printables, too - I know I've gotten great teaching materials, right at the Getty Villa, in the Children's center - it's for 'children' of all ages! The young at heart crowd, if you know what I mean - lol! : )

The Getty Website has all sorts of Teacher stuff - you'll love it!

This is an incredible opportunity for your students, and one that may change their lives, forever.  The Getty Villa is so beautiful, and even just taking the bus, there - what a great class trip for you and your students.

There's a place for your students to have their lunch, and you can buy lunch, there, too - is a good idea to just bring their lunch, if possible.  Many schools will let you order school lunches through your school cafeteria manager - good to be friends with the school cafeteria manager, anyway - they're always really nice and helpful : )




For teachers, be sure to check and see what courses are offered for the summer, at The Getty Villa in Malibu (Pacific Palisades), and at The Getty Center, off the 405 in Los Angeles, California.  I've taken so many amazing courses, all free, I think - pretty sure - I took a lot of classes, sooo, a little jumbled in my mind, now, which ones I paid for, and which ones were free, but I'm pretty sure the Getty courses are all free.

Oooh, check and see what other courses there are at all the Art Galleries... LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) had amazing courses, and be sure to stay for the dinners that are provided, free of charge - they had THE best dessert - yum!

You'll come away with lots of great ideas for future lessons, and maybe meet some nice people.. and learn all sorts of interesting and amazing new things, yourself - you'll love it!  Oh, and the Getty Center off the 405 had fantastic breakfasts, too - and I think they were free, as well... wow, can it get any better than that?  Great classes, possibly a Free Trip for your students, and free breakfasts for you, at the courses?  Hope I'm not spilling the beans, here - lol!

The earlier you put in your request for a school trip, the better the odds are of getting to go to the Getty Villa or the Getty Center, or, possibly, both.  It's all worth a shot, for sure!

 

Best Class Trip, ever? Or did they have a bit of a ruff trip? haha! So cute!

Oh, and the Getty Villa and the Getty Center are amazing trips for anyone, any time.  Generally, you have to go online to book a ticket for the Getty Villa, just so they know you're coming, and you will have a variety of times to choose from, and I think admission is free, just pay for parking.

I know I've taken some courses at the Getty Center, where they handed out free parking passes, too - so, be open to all the freebies, for sures, and if you're at either the Getty Villa in Malibu, or the Getty Center off the 405 in L.A., and you have children with you, pop into the children's center - soo much fun - the kids will love it, too - bah'hahaha!

And if you want to take your students (or just go on your own!) to Huntington Gardens, which is beyond gorgeous, Huntington Gardens has a Free Day, and I'm pretty sure there's no fee for parking... the first Thursday of the month should be the Free Day, but check online, I think that's the only way to get your tickets, and you have to book in advance - plan well in advance, so you'll get your tickets - and if you're a teacher, you can see if there are any sources who might provide a free bus - worth looking into, for sure, and an incredible opportunity for your students
: ) http://huntington.org/freeday/

Happy Travels!  Ailsa