Yesterday was a horrible day for me but to make sure my mood did not ruin Esther and William’s day, we did this.

We made stravberry flavoured pink glittery playdough.

It was marvellous!

We got out the Tuff Spot, covered it in strawberry icing sugar and then put on the playdough and the acccessories.

Sugar Strands
Icing Sugar
Hundreds and Thousands
Candles
Celebration Cup Cake Signs
Cup Cake Cases
Rolling Pins
Cookie Cutters of all shapes and sizes

The idea was to make lots of pink and sugary pretend cakes and cookies.

The playdough was very very sticky and became stickier with all the different types of sugar.

Esther and William loved it. Esther enjoyed eating all the sugary things but I had to make her stop.

Stop she did and we had some wonderful fun.

I showed Esther and William the making of some cookies and a cake.

I modelled rolling and moulding and shaping, cutting and kneading, and decorating their creations.

We made strawberry star bites and bubblegum angels (the playdough really smelt like bubblegum. Yum Yum!)

We made cup cakes and birthday cakes for Baby Tilda in the sky.

We poured and we sprinkled.

We made our pink pretty.

We covered our playdough world in strawberry sugary snow.

We made marks in the sugar.

I think that I was having as much fun as Esther and William if not more with this sticky sweet messy play.

I love making playdough. I always use a non cook recipe but never seem to get my quantities quite right. I will keep making new batches until I make the perfect mix.

Esther and William love playdough in whatever consistency it comes.

For them the messier the better.

It was funny with this play that Esther got messy first. She tipped her sugar and sprinkles out on to the Tuff Spot and got her fingers sticky with dough.

William carefully poured and mixed his different sugars to make a colourful cup cake with a candle for Baby Tilda Mae.

It was not long at all however and til both of my lovelies were stripping off their outer wear and doing this!

Mess mess glorious mess!

There is nothing quite like messy play for bringing a smile on a really bad day.

As always Esther and William like to take their play in their own direction.

And surprisingly this activity did not involve engines!!

One of their new obsessions is Mr Potato Head, so we invited them to the party!

Instead of the heads we used the playdough to make bodies and added the different body part and accessories. Esther and William had a wonderful time creating fat people, thin people, shape creatures, ugly creatures and mess. More and more magical mess!

They really enjoyed having the accessories to add to their playdough and it was great fine motor skill practice handling the small objects and placing them securely in the dough.

By the end of our session the sugary dough really was icky and sticky.

There was nothing for it a bath was required.

We got out one of our big bowls filled it with bubbles and the terrible twosome, quite literally, jumped in.

They had a fabulous time squashed into their bubbly bowl. I think they might have enjoyed this more than the messy play.

And it was wonderful to watch.

My children are my saviours at the moment.

They make me smile and laugh out loud.

I love them, all three of them, with all my heart.