Snow (and play-doh) in October...

The snow started falling early this year. We had about 4 inches on October 11. The kids thought it was pretty cool. I wasn't so sure...Our trees were still green and full of leaves,

my asters had just gotten full of blooms,

this Peace rose was blooming so beautifully,

but the kids had a blast playing with their homemade play-dough!

I made blue play-doh for Jonathan and red and yellow for Annisia. Then I told them, "You have blue, red and yellow." Then I took parts of each color and made 3 other piles.

I told them, "now you can take the blue and red parts and make...?" and Jonathan said, "Purple!" "And you can take the red and yellow and make...?" "Orange!" "And you can take blue and yellow and make...?" "Green!" He's so smart, isn't he?
Howeveh...they did not listen to me and mix the piles up. They just picked pieced of each out and sort of rolled them up...and made beautiful rainbow-like globs! My ingenious kids!

They made cookies with my fancy Pampered Chef cookie dough scoop, and Tupperware lids for baking pans. Annisia made a birthday cake for me...I didn't have the heart to tell her my birthday was 6 months away...

Kool-Aid Playdough

2 ½ to 3 Cups flour 3 Tbsp vegetable or corn oil
½ cup salt 1 Tbsp alum (cream of tartar can be substituted)
2 Cups boiling water with 1 pkg Kool-Aid (any flavor)*
* I did ½ of two Kool-Aid pkgs, each in 1 cup of boiling water.

Mix ingredients and knead with flour (may take up to 1 extra cup). This makes a huge batch of playdough. Make 2 colors that, when mixed, will make another color, actually giving you 3 colors! Keeps well, has a nice fragrance and is very colorful and pliable!