Playdough!

One of my favorite activities growing up was to help my mom make playdough. I love adding the food coloring so that it turned out as my favorite color, but even more than that I really enjoyed the places you could go with a healthy imagination and some playdough. The possibilities are basically endless. What isn't endless is my list of craft ideas for the kids at the orphanage. So I hoped that if I brought playdough to the orphanage, I could entertain them for at least a week. Making the dough was almost as fun as I remembered and just as messy. My hands were an interesting tie-dye of colors for a couple days until the dyes rubbed off my skin. In one night, I made three batches of playdough and turned the dough twelve different colors. By the end of day one, we were down to eight colors which was better than one color. We also had a major mess on the floor. Some of the younger kids just didn't quite understand that the goal was to play with the dough on the table and not tear off small pieces to throw on the ground. Day two saw slightly better results with the dough staying off of the floor and colors that leaned toward gray at the end of the day. Day three is coming up. I'm rather excited to see how long this playdough will last because the day the kids get bored of playing with it is the day that I will need to come up with another craft...

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