Goody Bags

This coming Saturday is going to be a pretty big deal for this family of Foxes. You see, a little member of our family turns the big number 4. We have been counting down the days for a few weeks now- each day the excitement just grows and grows. We are all very excited about this and have been planning for quite some time for the celebration that is going to occur on Sunday to commemorate this monumental event.

We have discussed the cake and decorations. We have songs that we are going to sing and dance to as well as games that we are going to play. The only thing that I didn't have down was the crafts  that we were going to do- would they be fun? We discovered today that thankfully yes, the play dough and slime that we are going to make and give out as favors would be very very very fun...and a little messy.

I love the idea of giving kids party favors for coming to a birthday party. What I do not like the idea of is a bag of plastic do dads that are going to break in a week or get thrown in a drawer and forgotten about. I am more a fan of the homemade crafts that are fun for kids, last a while and, if they don't last, will not wreck havoc on our environment when they are discarded. Thankfully I found two super fun things to make- and better yet- I had most of the ingredients in my cupboard. 

First up was play dough. Turns out that our favorite molding squishy substance that gets into everything is nothing more than salt, flour, water, and oil. You just toss everything together and cook it. Took about 10 or so minutes to make a large vat of fun. We tossed it out on the table, kneaded it a little, added some color and done. 

We played with it for a bit, but then moved on to some other activity. Sure the dough was fun, but the real star of the day, the thing that we returned to time and time again was the slime. The farty, creepy, oozing, so silly, and so easy to make slime. How easy? Mix 2 parts school glue with 1 part liquid starch, add some food coloring and you have the most fun thing ever.

It oozes across tables, farts, is so stretchable it spans from one end of the living room to other. Plus, when it oozes off the table, you just peel it up and toss it back in its container. It like one big massive booger- a perfect craft for 8 kids under the age of 4. Did I mention that it farts?