Another tale of a messy play fail!
Rubbish play doh
Once upon a time, a while before they were scared for life with the notorious messy play incident. The mummy and daddy were looking at ways to help their toddler have different sensory experiences and explore his creative side.
This is another tale of a messy play fail.
After trawling the internet for inspiration, the mummy decided she would make some home made Play Doh.
They had pots of Play Doh but the mummy was sure that if she made her own the toddler would love it even more, be eternally grateful for the effort she put in and generally grow up to be awesome.
“Arthur can help me make it too, he’d love that!” She thought
“It would create a special bond between them” She thought
“It would make a great blog post too!” She thought
The Mummy spent time online and realised that a secret ingredient to make perfect Play Doh was cream of tartar.
Since they couldn’t get cream of tartar she used a recipe that was ridiculously easy looking, what could go wrong?
The Mummy searched around the shops desperately for food colouring and managed to find some red.
She then sorted out her ingredients
1 cup of flour
1 cup of salt
1 cup of water
A few drops of food colouring
The mummy attempted to take some visually appealing, blog worthy photos to illustrate how easy this recipe was.
She never was very good at these artsy pictures
It would be ok though, some fancy text was sure to make it look great:
Okay, it was that much better.
It didn’t matter, the results would speak for themselves and the wonderful sensory experience that the toddler would have would far outweigh the downside of the Mummy’s crappy photography skills.
So the Mummy set up in the kitchen, got a nice mixing bowl out and a toddler sized wooden spoon.
The toddler mixed together the dry ingredients, remarkably mess free.
Then the Mummy poured in some water. Still mess free.
“Isn’t this wonderful” she thought.
Next the Mummy added in a couple drops of the red food dye she had bought.
Turns out the red food dye was yellow.
“crap, that doesn’t look so great” she thought.
It was clear the Toddler was a little confused as to what this was he had made with the Mummy.
The Mummy was starting to doubt the ‘easy’ Play Doh recipe.
The Mummy kept a calm head, she had a science degree after all (yes okay it’s a degree in Surf Science but it has BSc at the end and you can’t take that away from her!!!) she could fix this. She added some more flour. It was now beginning to resemble some of the toddler’s less desirable nappies.
“It’s okay” the Mummy tried to convince herself.
The toddler made his feelings quite clear and decided that he no longer wanted to be anywhere near the Play Doh they had created. In fact, he looked quite terrified.
So from this tale of a messy play fail the Mummy learned:
Haha!! But it does make for a great blog post 😉 I chucked! Love your sons expressions through the whole process. I can’t make this play doh either, but if you can get hold of cream of tartar, play doh made with that is super easy!! I was so surprised how easy it was.
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tee hee, you are a funny lady! I love the look on Arthur’s face ‘step away from the play-doh-stuff’ 😉 If it’s any consolation, I had a similar messy play fail involving toilet paper, a grated bar of soap, a bottle of yellow food colouring water and torrential rain. Took months to get rid of the yellow colour from the garden! Been meaning to write about it for ages, must do that xxx #sharewithme
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Haha, this is so funny! I don’t mind doing crafty stuff but making playdoh often seems like a bit of a faff. I went in to help at Freddie’s preschool once, and the first job I was assigned was to make batched of playdoh with six 2 and 3 year olds- 3 times over! Needed a lie down when I got home, it was, er, ‘messy’! x
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Hehe oh bless him he looks adorable! Z used to hate anything sticky at all for a long time or anything that got him dirty, like sand. You should see him now, he’d gladly roll around in mud if I let him 😀
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He looks so cute I want to scoop him up in a hug! You could have made yellow bread from it…possibly (I have no idea what goes in bread!)
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Oh that made me giggle – it really does look like a baby nappy doesn’t it! I tried to make home made playdoh precisely once – it turned out rock hard and impossible to mould into anything – after that we went back to the tubs!!
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Isn’t it funny how we make an absolute effort for our kids and then wonder why we did it!! I learned the hard way when Grace was younger – thankfully she is far more appreciative now shes older. Messy play is my worst nightmare! #sharewithme
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Oh bless him! You tried, and that’s all anyone can ask of you. Well done!
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Love it Chantelle! Hilariously I actually have an Msc (in Library and Information so essentially I know how to file stuff and not much else 🙂 ) I’d be exactly the same! Love Arthur’s sceptical little face too. Nice pics though 😉 X #sharewithme
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Hahahah Brilliant this is so me. When I try things off pinterest that say easy I seem to always fail.But it does make for an excellent blog post doesn’t it? So cute all the fun filled photos and effort put in though. Arthur looks happy just playing with messy goo. hahaha Thank you so much for linking up to Share With Me #sharewithme
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Oh the look on his face! It’s like you made toddler kryptonite!
To date I have only found one non tartar play doh recipe that worked and even that one only worked the second time. My colours were a bit iffy too so my red was more of a Gaviscon pink.
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Ha ha – Playdoh like a less desirable nappy! I really enjoyed this post – who cares that it didn’t work out as hoped, looks like you had fun making it. #Sharewithme
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This really made me laugh! Would you believe I actually made play dough for the first time last week… Blog post coming… But I did manage to find cream of tartar 🙂 I practically gave myself a blister making the stuff though! #ShareWithMe
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Ha ha ha! I’ll be honest, hats off to you for effort! I’m useless at crafts and messy play!! Love the last photo! Arthur’s face!!
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Ha ha ha! I’ll be honest, hats off to you for effort! I’m useless at crafts and messy play!! Love the last photo! Arthur’s face!! xx
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Haha I love this! We’ve had loads of home made playdough fails in our time and the kids seem to actually prefer the dud stuff to the real thing! It’s still messy, it’s still play so it’s still good! x x x
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So very funny! Arthur’s terrified face is hilarious… and you’ve now also made me endlessly better about never bothering to make my own playdough. Hurrah for pots, eh.
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Haha! This looks so funny… it’s times like this I’m glad Toby goes to nursery full time so they do all this stuff with him and I don’t have to face the horror of messy play at home 🙂
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HAHA – you are sooooo dedicated but Arthurs face is just the best – WHAT THE HELL MUMMY hehe. We learnt something from your post – never attempt to make homemade play dough x Ax
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I am giggling while reading this =P #brillblogposts
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That Play….DOH! looks like my pooey nappy this morning! Thanks for sharing on #SundayStars x
Ha ha so funny, yes not something i would have ever attempted its easier to buy x
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ha ha!! He does not look happy, nor impressed! I have never tried to make it. For this reason alone!! brilliant and funny 🙂 Thanks for linking up this week #SundayStars – Jess xx
Brilliant, I am glad someone else is as useless as me. But you tried – I don’t anymore. I do a good line in reading and writing!! Thanks for linking up with #sundaystars come and join us again next week.
Bahah! Thanks for making us feel better! Love this! Thanks for linking up to #brilliantblogposts
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Haha, this has made me laugh. This is what my attempt at easy play-doh would be like! #sharewithme
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This made me chuckle – I can’t for the life of me master home made play doh !!
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This is hilarious! I have always fancied having a go at this but to be honest I always have play doh in the house so really, why bother?! Haha. Maybe one day I will give it a go, and let you know the outcome! X
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Uh oh, play doh fail. Really made me chuckle. I hope you and Arthur managed to get some fun in after all that? #sharewithme
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Hee hee, I admire your messy play persistence! i never make playdough, I just buy it! we tried making moon dough and that was just a horrible mess too! #sharewithme
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Tee hee hee… oh bless you! Things like this never really go as planned do they? I’ve never tried to make DIY Play Doh and I’m not sure I will now. Although, Poppy always wants to eat our shop bought version so I probably should.
Funny post!! #SundayStars
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