Chasing Butterflies Daily

Home made play dough is ridiculously easy to make and takes very few ingredients. Generally all things you have in your cupboards normally. Now most of the recipes I can find involve cream of tartar which we never have, BUT we always have lemon juice (I'm obsessed) and that's a perfectly good substitute - as is vinegar but it's obviously got a stronger smell. This recipe is a non cook one that I've played around with to find the perfect texture for us. I've adjusted the measurements to suit metric system as I have never baked in cups/pints etc. Ingredients 300ml flour 150ml salt 2tbs oil (veg./oil/coconut) 2tbs lemon juice 250-300ml boiling water food colouring Method Just bung all the dry ingredients into a bowl, mix the boiling water (I'd use the lower amount stated and only add the extra if it's needing more moisture - if it's too wet sprinkle some extra flour) with the wet ingredients and then add to the bowl of fl...

Most kids like to make a mess, ours love to make as much of a mess as humanly possible. I mean I've seen other children look on with horrified expressions when our two girls get stuck in as they seem to be on a mission to get as dirty as they can (no idea what #3 will be like but considering he already loves to follow them about I won't be surprised if they teach him to behave the same). Before kids I thought all children loved a certain level of mess making but being a parent has taught me that children are all so different; what some find fun and intriguing is an overload to the senses for others. Our girls NEED to feel everything, it seems to be a strong compulsion. If the paints come out in our house I have to know that I've got time to throw them in the shower after because we have yet to make it past the 5 minute threshold before one of them starts to paint themselves (which only encourages the other one), I don't try to stop them any more because they ha...