Lavender Play Dough

I've been planning this for a while and finally got around to making it this week.  I made purple play dough to which I added lavender oil before cooking.  Once cooked, I split it into 2, left one half plain and added some dried lavender to the other half to add more aroma and texture. 

It was a great idea in theory, a nice calming and relaxing play at the table.....unfortunately I forgot to add the cream of tartar so we ended up with an immensely sticky mess - not so relaxing!!!

 I'm going to make some more though as I do think it's a great way to use essential oils with the boys. 

Playdough Dinosaurs

We did these a couple of weeks ago and I really like how they turned out.  I made green playdough and added some green split peas to it to give it some bumpy scaly type texture.  We cut out dinosaurs shapes with cutters, made footprints with toy dinosaurs,

and then I made dinosaurs for the boys put 'spikes' onto.