Play Dough Farm Animal Containers!

Kyra's 2nd birthday is this weekend! I wanted to make something cute for party favors, since I made the play dough snowmen for Christmas I thought it would be fun to make farm animal ones. Kyra's party is a "barnyard bash" so why not have farm animal containers with green play dough! So here is my first ever tutorial!

What you'll need:
~Empty Crystal Light containers
~Scrap paper
~Tape
~Puffy paint in various colors
For the Play dough (my Mom's recipe):
~2 cups flour
~2 cups water
~1 cup salt
~2 tbsp of vegetable oil
~4 tsp cream of tartar
~food coloring

First I drew out my design on a piece of scrap paper, and taped it inside the empty Crystal Light container so I could trace it. If you didn't want to draw your own you could always find something online that you liked.

 Then trace your design with black puffy paint, and let them dry.

 Next fill in your design! I made some mistakes when filling in the colors and went over the line. So once they were dried I went back and did some of the black again. These are my final containers!

Now to make the play dough! Sorry I didn't take any pictures of this. I did have my daughter help me and she loved it!

First you mix all of the ingredients (see above). Once they are mixed well, cook them in a large pan over medium heat, stirring constantly for about 5 mins or until the play dough starts to pull away from the pan. It will start looking like play dough. After it is done knead the dough until its smooth.

Next fill your containers and enjoy!!!

a little late..

This is a little late but I want to share it with you all anyways!

This past Christmas I needed an inexpensive but fun gift for my nieces and nephews. They all love play dough, so I thought that would be great idea! I saw a pin on pinterest for "snow" play dough. Its just homemade un-dyed play dough with glitter! Who doesn't love glitter?

Once I found that, I knew play dough was the gift! But how could I package it in a fun way? Thankfully my Mom is obsessed with Crystal Light so she had a bunch of the containers I could have.I just had to peel off the label and they are a perfect clear container with a lid!

I figured that since I was making snow play dough I should make them into snowmen!

I used felt for the eyes, mouth and scarves, then puffy paint for their noses! They loved them!!

Kyra is turning 2 this month, her party is a barnyard theme, so I am making for favors farm animal play dough containers! I'll be posting a tutorial of them soon!

A little bit about me..

I'm a mostly stay at home mom with a beautiful 22 month old daughter, and an amazing fiance. I said mostly stay at home mom because I only work one day a week..its way too expensive for daycare, and that one day is the only day my fiance can watch our daughter. Now you might be thinking "Well why don't you just have family do it?" Well my family is about 3 hours away and my fiance's family is about 3 hours away as well or 12+ hours away. This makes living in the wonderful Adirondacks hard, especially being a first time mom, but I have been blessed with some pretty amazing friends who have become my other family.

We are on a budget so I am trying to become more frugal, and find fun ways to save money. That's one of the reasons I started this blog, I figured there has to be more people out there that need some help and ideas for this too! I also think this blog will be a great de-stressor for me.

Another de-stressor I've found is crafting! I love creating things. Crafting has also helped in being frugal, well for the most part, sometimes its a little too expensive for me. I don't understand why you can't find a good cheap sewing machine?!

Anyways I hope you enjoy my blog, share comments with me and come back for more of my rambles!