Salt dough!
- 1c. Salt
- 2c. Flour
- 1c. Water
Mix ingredients together in bowl until formed dough!
• Feels like play dough!!
Create!
Snowmen
- Roll three balls for snow man parts
- Place separately on a cookie sheet in the oven for 20min at 215° • the balls will still be a little playable when you remove them!
- Use hot glue to stack and stick the balls together
- Add snowman parts! We used googly eyes, toothpicks, and rhinestone stickers but you could add whatever you like and use whatever materials you like!
Jars
- Glue (hot or white school) cotton to the inside of the mason jar lid
- Makes mixture of “snow” we used snowflake sequence and silver glitter, pour into mason jar!
- Glue snowman to the cotton “snow” lid and screw lid on, turn upside down and there you have it… Snow storm!!
Tip: a pinch of corn starch in the glitter will help it from sticking to everything and itself!
Realities!
Yup, kids try to eat the dough! But it’s all food based so not a chemical danger and salty flavour is not really appealing!
Yup it’s hot glue but I did the hot glue gun handling and the girls pushed the pieces together!
The girls loved building these today and I had so much fun doing it with them!!
Well the cold weather has officially hit, the weather man keeps telling me it might warm up one more time but looking into the frost covered day I’m having a hard time
The summer was such a busy one with so many adventures! Our garden was a huge success this year! We planted early enough to have a great crop of corn that we are 
still enjoying, potatoes that will last for months and so much fresh foods that I was able to can, pickle, and freeze what we need for the winter months! We are so lucky to have the space and the time to enjoy a large garden! I hope of course that next year we can keep working toward a weed free garden! We worked hard this year to keep the weeds down and they still managed to get away from us in the end but every year it’s better and better!
winter pen with lots of room to run, and food to eat! And our Three sows have a boar with them now in their pen so we should be expecting another round of babies in the spring! This is the first year we haven’t done anything extravagant with our birds, in that we simply purchased a few new chickens at a spring sale and kept our flock small and manageable! I haven’t been over run by eggs this year which has been a nice change! Although with the cool weather the slow down has been a little too much and we’ve had to seek help with our egg supply from our neighbour until the ladies started laying again! We will plan to hatch out again this spring to replace some of the birds that are slowing down or not laying anymore, I think the kids are going to love the process and seeing the new babies!!
We searched and searched this summer looking for a play structure that would last our family many years of play! I read a blog (I wish I could remember which so I could give it due credit) that hit the nail on the head, explaining how:
set up for the kids to freely play, gardening and yard work became that much easier! The best part of the process was when Steve showed up at the sellers house (we purchased used from a bidding site on Facebook) they thought he would be there for days unsetting it, instead he loaded it on to a trailer with a picker truck and the kids were on it by the next day!
Livin' the Country Life 