Edible Peanut Butter Play Dough

I confess my kids eat play dough. There must be something to that flour and salt mixture they like, though I can’t think of what it is? The food dye maybe?

In search of something less food dye-y and less salty and more food-y to make play dough out of I stumbled across this recipe for Edible Peanut Butter Play Dough.

Edible Peanut Butter Play Dough:

1 C creamy peanut butter
2 C powdered sugar
1/2 C honey

Mix the ingredients together with no mess using an electric mixer or let your kids do it for an extremely fun and messy time.

I used the organic make-it-your-self peanut butter from the bulk section at HEB. The crunchy texture did not deter my kids at all and made it feel kind of cool. I’m thinking next time I should use chocolate peanut butter or Reece’s peanut butter or a combo?… Mmmmm… Reece’s chocolate peanut butter play dough….

Do I feel better that instead of salt and flour my kids are eating sugar and peanut butter? I’m not sure. But it was fun!

The Laundry Room

Most of us have a laundry room and most of us want to spend as little time in that glorified closet as possible. I was no exception to this. Until one day I was folding laundry in my messy and unattractive room and thought, hey I could do something about this!


I already had some lime green things so I went with that color. I got a lime green milk box and lime green Sterilite box from Target for under 10 dollars. I put all that extra stuff that seems to collect in a laundry room because it has no where else to go in the milk box and put my poor fluffy puppy's food in the Sterilite box. I had some green and blue artwork made by my oldest son when he was a baby and hung it on the walls. I found a broken fish lamp and hung that up just for something fun. There wasn't anything too crafty about all that I did but it certainly did make the room feel that much better!

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Pirate Night at Chick-Fil-A

Today was Pirate and Princess Night at my local Chick-Fil-A. If your kids dressed up as a pirate or princess they got a free kids meal. I crafted two quick pirate customs out of two old bandanas lying around and some cardboard. Easy and no sewing involved at all and it took less than 15 minutes. My 3-year-old was even able to help a bit.

Take a bandanna cut in half on the diagonal. Set aside one half to tie as a due rag. Take the other half and measure (or guesstimate) 3 inches from the raw edge and cut again to create a belt.

Take some cardboard, draw a sword shape and cut it out. There ya go! Done! And what did you win? A free Chick-Fil-A kids meal! And a happy goofy kid!