Over the Christmas season, having my little boy off from school i wanted to try and keep him busy try and contain his excitement in the anticipation of waiting for Santa to arrive, so i planned the days out with activities to keep him entertained..all of the things i had planned didn't cost a fortune and we are all on a budget and lets face it Christmas is expensive enough without adding more to the cost....So starting with cake making and decorating, I purchased everything i wanted from the local pound store didn't spend anymore then about £6.00... I did cheat and got one of those pre-made mixes, I'm not a baker and quite frankly my cakes generally tend to taste cardboard (even when i do follow a recipe) in all honesty he had great fun...he even wanted to share his creations with the girls from my local hairdressing salon (we had an appointment to get his hair cut in the afternoon)
So for the second day i had invited a friend round with her children and we done salt dough decorations..
I had pre-made all the decorations about the week before, the recipe for this is:
Half a cup of water.
Half a cup of salt.
And a cup of plain flour
Mix together the flour and salt, and then start adding the water... keep mixing until you have something that looks like a biscuit dough..
(you could stop at this point.. add some food colouring and you have home made playdoh but would need to be stored in an air tight container)
Pre heat your oven on a low heat, make your decorations and bake for around 2-3 hours... i took mine out at around 2 hours, and i they wasn't quite baked through enough.. but this was just a bit of fun for the kids so i wasn't to fussed, but this does mean they wouldn't be any good for next year and will need to be thrown away.
I made the kids up little bags each with a paint brush, a sponge paint dabber, some stickers and their decorations.. Put the paint in a few old ice cube trays and some glitter in plastic containers with spoons just to try and contain the mess a little.. (but i was hoovering up glitter for about a week after my son knocked one off the containers of glitter over and it went all over the floor) I covered the table with just a plastic table cloth again from the local pound shop this was so once the kids had finished.. i could take of all the stuff i wanted to keep and be reused, all the mess could be just folded in the table cloth and binned without to much messing around for a really easy clean up.. and as you can see from the pictures there was A LOT of mess but they had a lot of fun, and it kept them entertain for the afternoon.
I know this is a little different from the normal things i would share, but as it was Christmas and having to pack all my craft things up and putting them away, i just wanted to share this with you and give you a little insight into the things i do when i'm not crafting, or writing on here. So with that said i hope you all had a fabulous Christmas with your family, friends and loved ones and would like to wish you all a happy new year.
Laura xx
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