Goodie bag - Playdough

V's school has preference for not gifting sweets/chocloates for their goodie bags. Mainly to avoid allergies in children I believe. So I did a bit of research and decided to make playdough with just 2 ingredients!! I broke the costings for those who are keen. I wanted to buy glass jars at $2 a jar but was advised not to gift glass as most children cannot handle glass well at this young age. So I got those plastic containers that they can reuse after their sensory play.

http://kidsactivitiesblog.com/28677/play-dough-recipe

       Makes 18 packets of zipock = 6 containers

• Cornflour             200 grams $2      
• Hair Conditioner  600 ml $7            

      I did for 30 students. So my total cost was about less than $3 a child. 

• Container             $2 for 3=$30
• Colouring             $1.80 x3=$5.40
• Ziplock                100 pcs=$3
• Ribbons               10 m $3.50 x3=$10.5
• Printed cards        30 pieces for $5=$5

2 parts cornstarch to 1 part hair conditioner

Use a mixing bowl, we started with a container and it was too small

Add in colours! for pastel looking ones, 1 drop is sufficient

Get the young one involved!

Don't forget the birthday girl and the husband!

U can do 1 colour or 3!

I got these printed on cards, but I believe paper will do just as great 

Ribbons to spruce up any gift.. everytime. 

We found making the playdough very therapeutic. Besides that, the whole house smells like hair conditioner and the children get much joy mixing the dough! Definitely "Handmade with Love", I chose to use ziplock as its airtight since playdough dries out very fast! It's more convenient for the children to put it back into the bags after playing, making this gift re-useable. We believe all parents would love to get gifts the children can play with or use. Love this recipe!!

4th birthday - 1st celebration

I type a whole lot of words, published it, baby cried for milk, latch her and came back to a missing post .. ARGHHH!!!

Victoria had a vision, to have her birthday celebrated with all her friends and teachers in school. Her goals were bigger, she was to celebrate with the WHOLE school.Well i reckon she didn't know that this school has a large number of students as compared to her previous one. Mummy here sucked at planning for parties, mainly coz I am not a fan of birthday parties. But you now, as mummies, we are supposed to be good at everything. 

I blog hopped and saw that Ophe mummy had created cupcake toppers and got her to help me out in this area. Which I think she did great!! V had beautiful toppers! I called my regular baker and she made this rainbow swirl which together with the toppers looked awesome!

I got the goodie bag, or rather a goodie item from The Better Toy shop in Tanglin. The school has requested for no sugary stuffs and I think the pencil is a great choice! its $1.80 each!!! Great choice of gift to 20 kiddos!

The kiddos have blended so well together since the last I saw them at orientation! A few proactively came up to me to talk, about what they do in school, how they use the pencil, what food they eat. It was an interesting time with them. V was busy giving out her goodie item and her cup cake to each individual! She didn't want the adults to help! But I could tell who were her friends in class coz she kept skipping her classmates!! 

I had a choking moment when it was time for dismissal and all the 20 of them sang praise in mandarin in big big actions! the loudest part came from the halleujah in chinese! cute-ness can....