Week 9: Fondue, dogs, and Koolaid Playdough

This week we made fondue for lunch one day.  I used this recipe.  I was just a waste of cheese.  I just ended up with a lump of melty cheese floating in broth.  I had the kids go play for a few minutes while I "finished" lunch and I just melted some velveeta in the microwave and added it to the crock pot.  They didn't know the difference.  They just LOVED eating this for lunch.  The whole time they ate they kept telling me how good it tasted and we should do this again sometime.  I guess we will be having it again sometime.  Maybe I will use a different recipe.

Ian breaking up the bread.

 

We had hotdogs, broccoli, apples, bread, and carrots to dip in the cheese.  Everything was eaten up.

 

 
For our craft this week they made little chenille dogs.  I found these little craft kits at JoAnn's for 70% off so I picked up a couple.  They were a little tricky to put together but they still liked making them.  They played with them the rest of the afternoon.

Sadie and Ian with their finished puppies.

 

This week we also made some Koolaid playdough.  It was super easy to make and smelled awesome.  I used this recipe.  It worked great.  It called for 2 tablespoons of cream of tarter per batch but it worked just fine with 2 teaspoons per batch.  The kids LOVED the playdough.  They made a huge mess with it but it entertained them for 2 solid hours.  I was able to get the bathrooms cleaned without interruption.  It was AMAZING!  I think they would have played longer if I hadn't interrupted them and asked them if they wanted to play in the pool.  I highly recommend making this recipe.

We made 3 colors, blue...

 

purple...

 

and green.  I told them to not mix colors but since they were playing so good, I didn't care that it was all over everything and all the colors were mixed together.  I just waited for the little pieces to dry and then I swept them up.