Jellyfish Art/"Beachy Day"

I set up a tiny beach scene with play doh this morning before my girls got up. Placed some shells in the sand they could make imprints with...they LOVED it! And I do realize my items are no where near to scale with each other! The starfish is larger than the entire ocean/beach combined and if I found shells that were half the size of a whale I would sure set some sort of world record.

And this is what came of the beach.  It got transferred to a cookie sheet on the floor for a place for Tinkerbell fairies to hang out and observe a "giant fish." 

Later in the day we made our sea creature of choice craft, a jellyfish.  They really so turn out very adorable.  

Only need a few supplies lying around in that craft closet.  Glue, goggly eyes, paint, paintbrushes, ribbon and styrofoam bowl.  (and I am aware that jellyfish do not have huge eyes on the side of their bodies like that =) )

Or four on the top as Little K decided to create...

"Look Mommy what I made!" 

Chocolate play doh cookies

I got the idea to make chocolate play doh from the blog I follow and love so dearly "Counting Coconuts."  I used to have an old recipe that I followed for making homemade plah doh but have since started using the recipe she uses as well found here  http://countingcoconuts.blogspot.com/2011/02/homemade-playdough-recipe-notes.html.  For the chocolate, I just added in some cocoa mix to the recipe and I had to do some brown food coloring as well to make them actually LOOK like chocolate.  =)  So yummy, you really do almost want to eat them!  Just make sure you're little ones don't (although it won't hurt them since it's all baking ingredients, but not yummy!  Trust me, I've tried just for the heck of it!)

Play Doh Creatures

This was one of those days that we were playing with play doh (like we often do) but I was tired of doing the "same old thing" with it.  So I decided to bring out some googly eyes and toothpicks (for arms and legs) to spice things up a big.  Big K had a better idea, that the toothpicks should be spiky hair instead.  I like her idea better. =)  


A Daddy would get in on this activity.  


Before the REAL craziness began.