Plastilina hecha en casa (Homemade Play-doh)

It was a raining afternoon and M took an early nap so D and I made play-doh or in Spanish "plastilina." We used to make it every couple of weeks because D LOVES play-doh. When M got old enough to sit with us but not old enough to not eat and throw play-doh everywhere, I put it into retirement for a while. Today we made a big batch and divided it into three bowls. I let D add red and yellow to one bowl, yellow and blue to another bowl, and red and blue into the third bowl. D loves to mix colors and I figured that anaranjado (orange), verde (green), and morado (purple) were Halloween colors anyway. :) If you would like a recipe in English click here. (I like recipe #1 best.) If you would like a recipe in Spanish click here.

M is making that face because play-doh does NOT taste good. M apparently still hasn't outgrown eating the plastilina. :)

Calabazas-Color Mixing

D loves to mix colors and I was inspired by a project that I saw here on Tired, Need Sleep. I pulled some containers of different sizes (2 liter of pop, gallon of milk, and piña colada mix :) out of the recycle bin. I put in a little red paint and a little yellow paint and gave them to the boys to shake. The boys shook the bottles until the paint turned orange and covered the entire bottle. We cut out eyes, nose, and mouth and glued them to the bottles to make the Jack-o-lantern faces. We had so much fun that we are planning to mix more colors to make bottle monsters next.