Playdough Baking

Master E and Miss M are so very keen on playdough and cooking that we have decided to combine the two. As much as I love playdough, I personally am a bit over rolling it out and using various cutters to cut shapes for the monkeys. So we added a few new elements to our playdough play, and the play is lasting much longer and with far less intervention needed by me!!! Which means although I am there to help, I can sneak in a cup of much needed coffee!!! :)

For starters we added in patty pans, foil baking cases, bottle tops, yoghurt containers, candles and match sticks.
This generated much interest and kept them entertained for a very long time. I did spend a lot of time singing happy birthday and blowing out many, MANY candles!!!

Once interest had started to dissipate we spiced the playdough up by adding in some sprinkles. (love these ones made with natural colours and flavours!)

Master E enjoyed pouring the sprinkles onto and then making sure they were pushed in.

Miss M took at different approach and spent ages pushing her sprinkles in one by one.

We did end up with lots of sprinkles on the table, I showed Master E how to roll the playdough into balls and the roll  the balls in the sprinkles to make a coating.

Miss M thought this looked great too and got in on the act!



The sprinkles extended the length of playdough play by at least half and hour if not more. Which is a win for me and the kids had a ball. The playdough however, will not live to see another play as the sprinkles have made it quite sticky.
Was well worth it though.

Hope you enjoyed our playdough cooking. Am off to whip up a new batch now!