Children are naturally creative. Creating something speaks to the souls of children. Whether it’s beads and bangles, paint and paper, or glue and glitter, kids love to design and create myriads of things. So what better type of grandma than one that provides them with materials that encourages their creativity — especially home made play dough.

Here’s the recipe for the play dough:

1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of salt
1 cup of water
1 tablespoon of oil
1 teaspoon of cream of tartar
food coloring

Mix ingredients and cook for 3-4 minutes until the dough pulls away from the sides of the pan. Place dough on the counter top. Knead until smooth. This can be stored indefinitely in a Ziplock bag.

You might want to have several bags of different colored dough. When your grandchildren come to visit, pull out the dough and several cookie cutters, straws, toothpicks, plastic knives, jar lids, and anything else that you can think of that can aid your grandchildren in their creative endeavors.

When you bring out the dough, make sure that you dive in and create something too! Unleash the creativity within you as you share this activity with your grandchildren.

Enjoy!
Digi-Gram

(Speaking of cookie cutters, in December our youngest son had an activity with three children where they made Christmas cookies. He asked to borrow some of my cookie cutters. I gave him only 32 of my Christmas themed ones. One can never have too many cookie cutters . . . )

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