{"id":978,"date":"2014-11-09T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/09\/snow-dough-snowmen-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:34","slug":"snow-dough-snowmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/snow-dough-snowmen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make Playdough Snowmen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keep warm and build these snowmen indoors with some super cool Snow Dough.<\/em><\/div>\n
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There is a definite chill in the air now over here on the east coast of Ireland. So we decided to carry this cold feeling into some of our activities last week and started with some Play-dough Snowmen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Perfecting Play-dough<\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve been trying to perfect making our own\u00a0playdough<\/strong>\u00a0for a good while now. I\u2019ve tried many different recipes, resulting in varying degrees of success.\u00a0\u00a0This time I decided to try out a recipe from over at\u00a0Our Little House in the Country<\/a>. Ciara has lots of fun playdough activities over on her blog, so I thought that this was bound to be a good recipe and it turned out very well for us and was perfect for out playdough snowmen. Please click on the link above to find the full recipe that we used.<\/p>\n

Mixing up our Snow Dough<\/h2>\n

I made up the play-dough in my electronic mixer with a little help from Bella, who added in each of the ingredients for me. She was a bit heavy handed with the water though, so the initial mixture turned out far too wet. But with the careful addition of a bit more flour and corn flour I was able to rescue it. We made the recipe without any colouring; it wasn\u2019t needed this time for us as we were going to be making snowmen from it.<\/p>\n

Now we all know that snow is very cold, so to mimic the feeling of real snow as much as I could, I popped our dough into the fridge for a few hours before letting the kids loose with it.<\/p>\n

I was a little worried that putting the dough into the fridge would make it too hard to mould with, but I needn\u2019t have worried. This recipe makes lovely soft and smooth play dough, so the fridge did it no harm and maybe even made it a little easier for the kids to handle. They loved the fact that it was cold to touch and it did stay cold for a good while.<\/em> It really helped to get them into the mood for some snowman building as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Building our Play-dough Snowmen<\/h2>\n

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