Day 7 - Homemade Playdough
I got inspired by the "30 day not-so ordinary ordinary items challenge" but as I love giving things a personal twist, I decided to change the format a bit for myself so it suits me better. I've adjusted it to the 30 pictures - 30 stories challenge. But some days you will see that I also use not-so ordinary ordinary objects.
Feel free to join the challenge at any time if you like.
Publish one picture a day during 30 days and write a story about that picture. This can be anything, any object in the home, a person, scenery or a pet. I'm going to share a diversity of pictures and challenge myself to step outside of the box.
Today's picture was not planned to be completely honest, but when I took the picture I decided to add it to the mix of 30 stories content. I mentioned it before that I never buy any Playdough from the store anymore but make my own instead. Not only is it a lot cheaper, but you can also create your own colors as well as make a huge pile at once rather than having just a few tiny packs of playdough. The ingredients are also safe if you make it yourself and therefore suitable for young children in case you still have a child that puts everything in his or her mouth!
I promised to make my daughter this playdough somewhere in September and then we both forgot about it as she never brought it up again. Although I had all the ingredients at home, I made sure to buy a big bag of salt as well as food colorings the day after her request, I never got around to make it because it was never asked again, lol. I admit that I didn't mind it too much because even though it's always ready quite fast, I always look up to the moment of having to make it again. This time was no different.
As I just received the stand mixer for Christmas, my boyfriend said why bother kneading it yourself, let the mixer do it! Yes, great idea babe, and so I unpacked the mixer to try it for the first time. I decided that it was probably smart to first use it for something simple as a first attempt to get to know the thing better so I made a quick chocolate mousse first before I went ahead and did my playdough attempt with the stand mixer.
I will save your the horrible pictures but let me emphasize, this was not a good idea! It was horribly sticky and the mixer should have been my hands instead. The worst thing is that I didn't manage to improve it with flour as I normally easily can when kneading it by hand, I guess it's easier to feel how much you need when you have it in your hands than in a bowl from the mixer.
Eventually the "playdough" turned out well enough to play with after at least an hour of frustration on my hand, I cursed the damn thing many times but the kid was happy so at least it was worth it. We kept it in the fridge only to find out it was more of a pudding structure later and needed even more flour to the mix. When unpacking it again on Sunday, I told my daughter she could play with it one last time then we can try to harden it out (will probably fail lol) but if it works she can paint it. If not, we throw it in the bin this time.
When I tried to get it out of the bag, I was appalled by how it felt, and I decided to just let it fall out from the bag into the pile of flour on the table (gosh, a glass table is really convenient for these sticky moments!). When it fell on the table into the flour, I felt I needed to take a picture of this as it looked artistic to me. And here we are, at the end of my post about homemade playdough (gone wrong this time). Note to self: next time, knead by hand, end of note.
Did you ever make playdough yourself and went back to regular playdough because of the failed attempts? No? Neither did I, just keep trying, next time it will look fabulous again!
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