Fun with Animal Face Masks

Age: From 2.5 years olf

Additional Information:
We tried, but Joshua wasn't interested in masks when he was younger. Today, we rad a story about Kaj and his tiger mask and all of a sudden, Joshua (2Y9M) asked for the masks I made for him from the library and books. . So we had a lof ot fun with the masks with J today.

Updates:
29.1.2012 (2Y10M14D) - Joshua decided that he wanted to play with face masks today. I decided to build it into our breakfast routine and acting out The Animal family preparing breakfast together and it is all team work...




29.1.2012 (2Y10M14D) - Joshua Little Blue Mouse preparing his breakfast...

This is Daddy Teddy Bear preparing fruit

This is Mommy Pink Rabbit making the Super porridge for the Little Blue Mouse

Healthy Danish Meatballs with Oatmeal/Sunde Frikadeller med Havregryn

Serves 4

Preparation and Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:
1. 500g minced pork (3-7% fat)
2. 1/2 cup or 100ml oatmeal
3. 2 eggs beaten
4. 200ml fresh skimmed milk
5. 2 onion finely chopped
6. 1 clove garlic squeezed
7. 50g sun dried tomatoes chopped (optional)
8. Handful of basil leaves chopped (optional)
9. 1 tsp brewer's yeast (optional)
10. 1 tsp wheatgerm (optional)
11. 1 tsp salt
12. Sprinkle pepper
13. 2 TBS cooking oil

Directions:
1. Mix all ingredients together (except oil) and make into balls using a tablespoon.
2. Heat cooking oil on a pan and fry on medium fire (no. 5 on our stove) for 5 minutes on each side.
3. Serve with chopped red pepper bells.

Additional Information:
Daddy FECS and I made this for dinner today with our Little FECS. Our Little FECS liked it a lot.

References:
http://frikadelle-opskrifter.blogspot.com/

J Summary (2Y8M28D) - Unconditional Love

Mealtime

J is eating well at least one meal a day. He looks forward to his super porridge breakfast every morning. During weekends, he would bug me to wake up to make breakfast for him. He would eat a full bowl (Chinese rice bowl size) of super porridge and an additional bowl of oatmeal porridge. His super porridge currently consists of 3 cubes of mixed grain and beans, 1 cube of carrot, 1 cube of french beans, 1/2 banana, 1 tsp of wheatgerm, 1 tsp of brewer's yeast and the rest of the bowl top up with oatmeal.

Life skill Development

I got very upset with J today over his lack of interest to be more self-sufficient. He didn't want to feed himself and wanted me to feed him. He got very upset and gave up trying to eat by himself, when he got the rice noodles all over the table. Compared to many other children his age, most children are a lot more independent. Today, I taught him how to put on the jacket by himself, but he wasn't too serious either and was jumping around.

Language Development

Danish-wise, J speaks Danish to himself. I know he is practising his Danish. I think he thinks in Danish.

He continues to be our translator. For example, when he bugs me to wake up in the morning, I will tell him in Mandarin to ask his dad to wake up. He would go to Daddy and ask him to wake up in Danish. In return, Daddy would tell J to ask mommy to wake up instead in Danish. J would then come to me and translate Daddy's instruction to me in Mandarin. This would go on for a few rounds, until one of us wakes up to make breakfast for him, well, usually me.

English-wise, we know that he understands a lot, but he is not speaking it himself. He only repeats what we say in English word-by-word. I know he understands it, because once during mealtime, I was telling Daddy that I was thinking of making pancakes in English. A few minutes later, I turned to J and J asked when I will be making pancakes in Mandarin. I wondered how he knew, since I didn't tell him. I realized then that it was because I had been talking to Daddy about it in English earlier. It could also be that J is learning to understand selective English words, and since he loves food, pancake is one of those English words he chose to understand!

Our neighbour's boy who is 2.5 months younger than J could now recognize 60 Chinese characters, but J is only interested in recognizing 4 Chinese characters, namely mom 妈, dad 爸 and his own Chinese name 慨恩. To see the silver lining in this cloud, it was very sweet that J placed so much importance in recognizing these 4 characters, because it showed that these are the things he is placing the most importance in his life.

Reflection

So, if I have a chance to exchange J for my neighbour's boy, would I do it? The answer is NO. Although I am clearly upset that he is not inclined to be more independent nor showing more interest in learning Chinese characters, he is our boy, and we love him for his very existence. We love him for being J. We would not exchange him for anyone else. We love him unconditionally, faults and all.

Through these little incidents with J, I come to understand my own love for J. It also helps me to understand a little more deeply God's love for us.

At times, we can be upset at ourselves for not doing certain things better or for not achieving in certain areas, and start questioning our own self-worth and value in this world.

If I as a mother would not exchange J for anyone else, similarly, God our Heavenly Father would not exchange me for anyone else. I am valued in God's eyes simply for being Elaine, simply for being who I am, faults and all. Because God values me so much, I will value myself simply for being in existence, and not accord value to the achievements I achieved in this world. This does not mean that I get complacent, but it does mean that to have a healthy self-esteem. Our self-worth and self-acceptance should not be directly corelated to our achievements.

We need to understand God's unconditional love for us. Having received God's unconditional love, we need to love ourselves unconditionally and from there go on to love others unconditionally. Thank God for this lesson  to me today through J.

Through this incident, I also see and catch my own tendencies to place high academic pressure on J, even already at the age of 2.5 years old. I have to watch that.

The Bible says:

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast. - Ephesians 2:8-9

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for giving us the capacity to love J unconditionally as parents. Thank you for giving us your wisdom to see and understand your love for us. Help me to strike a balance, that I would not place unnecessary pressure on our boy, and rob him or us of the joy. Help me to work on my own weaknesses. In Jesus' most victorious name, Amen.

Homemade Disposable Number Mats for Hopping

Age: From 2 years old

Activity Duration: 10 - 15 minutes

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Objectives:
1. To provide a fun way to teach numbers, making full use of the children's energy at this age.

Materials:
1. Disposable Number Mats for numberal 1-5
2. Scotch tape the mat to the floor

Directions:
1. Demonstrate by hopping on the first number and say the number.

2. Go on to demonstrate the rest of the number in this way and finish one round.

3. Encourage the child to try.

Additional Information:
Joshua (2Y8M28D) tried this out today. He was thrilled with the hopping, but wasn't too keen to say the numbers.

How to Double-Boil Chinese Soup without the Chinese Ceramic Double Boiler Jar?

Idea from Karen Lim

It is not necessary to spend money to buy the Chinese Ceramic Double-Boiler Jar. You can still cook using the double boil method with ordinary items found in your kitchen.

Materials:
1. 1 large bowl
2. 1 metal stand
3. 1 plate to cover the bowl
4. 1 large ordinary pot

Directions:
1. Put all ingredients a large bowl and prevent moisture loss by covering it with a plate.

2. Place a metal stand into the bottom of another large pot and fill it with 2 - 3 inches of water. Turn on high heat for the water to boil.

3. When the water boils, place the large bowl covered by a plate into the large pot. The covered bowl should sit on the metal stand and be partially submerged in the water (2 cm up the bowl).

4. Turn down the heat and double boil the soup under low heat for 2-3 hours or until the ingredients are tender. In general, the longer you slow cook the soup, the sweeter the soup gets. The Cantonese are known to take up to 5 hours to make tonic soup using very low fire. With very low fire, you don't kill the nutrients and vitamins in the soup, and the resulting soup is full of nutrients and goodness. That's how Cantonese tonic soups are made :-)

Warning:
You can't leave the cooking unattended as if the water in the large pot evaporates, the food in the double boiler will not cook well. If you want the convenience of not worrying about water evaporating in the large pot, you can put the double boiler in a slow cooker and cook overnight.

Additional Information:
How to make the most tasty Chinese soup? It is achieved by using the traditional Chinese double boiling method with the Chinese ceramic double boiling jar widely available in HongKong, Singapore and China, but not available in Amazon. However, if you do not own a Chinese ceramic jar, don't fret, you can still improvise with the basic equipment found in your kitchen and it would give similar results. The only draw-back is that you can only make a bowlful portion, but it saves you money from having to get special equipment :-).

The Chinese double boiling method existed for thousands of years in China, but it is the Cantonese who perfected the art of double-boiling Chinese tonic soups. Among the Chinese, the Cantonese are known to make the best Chinese soup, and I have to agree, although I am not a Cantonese Chinese. If you look closely into the secret of how the Cantonese do it, you will find that many of their delicious soups call for simmering the soup in the traditional Chinese ceramic double-boiler jar for hours.

The Chinese way of double boiling soup is actually a form of steaming. It is also similar to the western method of melting chocolate or warming up cream using a Bain Marie.

The advantages of the Chinese double-boiling method are:

1. Slow cooking the soup for many hours from the indirect heat source derived from double-boiling gives you the most sweet and flavourful Chinese soup, that no other method can give.

2. This double-boiling method also gives you the most tender and flavourful meat that would melt in your mouth.

3. This method of cooking avoids moisture loss and retains most nutrients from the ingredients.

4. This is a very good method for making baby food if you are cooking soup for baby, since it retains most of the nutritional value of the ingredients for baby. This is equivalent to steaming baby food.

However, there are two major disadvantages. Firstly it takes a long time to double-boil meat such as chicken, which calls for simmering the soup under low heat for a few hours. Secondly, it makes only a small portion, often a one-person portion, because the size of the Chinese double boiling ceramic jar is very small, since the jar has to fit into a large pot.

However, thankfully, there are ways to overcome this. For example, fish soup is fast to make using the double-boil method, since fish cooks fast and does not require simmering for hours. Or you can double-boil your soup using a pressure cooker, instead of an ordinary pot.

Secondly, to overcome the small portion issue, one can use a Bain Marie to cook a whole pot of soup using the double boil method, instead of the Chinese ceramic jar.

Using the traditional Chinese ceramic jar with double lids would no doubt give the best result, but using the western Bain Marie is a good compromise if you want to make a big portion in one cooking to save time.

References:
http://www.whatsupatfairprice.com.sg/double_boiled.aspx
http://eatingpleasure.blogspot.com/2010/10/cordyceps-soup-double-boiling-method.html
http://www.mywoklife.com/2010/07/double-boiled-snow-pear-soup-with.html
http://www.deliciousasianfood.com/2008/02/11/double-boiled-sweet-herbal-chicken-soup/
http://rasarasa.net/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_20e2003f-ca90625c-1e68a2b0-4315e6e8

Chinese Fish Rice Noodle Soup by Double-Boiling Method

Idea from Karen Lim

Serves 2

Preparation & Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:
- Rice noodles, mushrooms, broccoli, carots, etc.
- Salmon fish cut into slices
- Salt & pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Put all ingredients in the double boiler or a large bowl covered with a plate.

2. Place a metal stand into the bottom of another large pot and fill it with 2 - 3 inches of water. Turn on high heat for the water to boil.

3. When the water boils, place the double boiler or large covered bowl into the large pot. The double boiler or covered bowl should sit on the metal stand and be partially submerged in the water (2 cm up the double boiler or bowl).

4. Turn down the heat to medium low and double boil the soup for 15 - 20 minutes.

Warning:
You can't leave the cooking unattended as if the water in the large pot evaporates, the food in the double boiler will not cook well. If you want the convenience of not worrying about water evaporating in the large pot, put the double boiler in a slow cooker instead of a large pot, and cook overnight.

Additional Information:
Most Chinese double boiling soups take long hours, however, this is a quick and easy double-boiling recipe for the modern working woman, thanks to my friend Karen Lim who gave me this idea.

If you have bigger family, and would like to make bigger portion in one cooking, you can use a Bain Marie to cook a whole pot of soup using the double boil method, and it would still give you similar results :-). Below is a good Bain Marie double boiler from Amazon:

Montessori Activity: Recognizing Chinese Characters through Montessori's 3-Period Lesson

Idea from Meixia

Age: From 2.5 years old

Activity Duration: 5 - 10 minutes

Objective(s):
1. To teach the concept of Chinese characters.
2. To teach reading

Materials:
1. 1 container with old name cards
2. 1 marker
3. 1 tray

Directions:
1. Ask your child what character he would like you to write.

2. Write it on the back of an old name card.

3. Teach using the Montessori 3 Period Lesson method:

• Step 1: Point to the Chinese character and read it to your child. For example, say "This is mom."

• Step 2: Say the Chinese character and ask your child to point it out. Example, "Show me the character 'mom'."

• Step 3: Point to the Chinese character and ask him what it is. For example, ask "What is this character?" Your child should say 'mom'.

Tips:
If your child can't remember the Chinese character, you can use baby sign language to give him the hint.

Additional Information:
My friend taught me this way of teaching Chinese to toddler. My friend's Meixia's son, Daniel is 2.5 years old (about 2.5 months younger than Joshua) and he can recognize 60 Chinese characters now. I thought that is really amazing.

Joshua (2Y8M25D) tried it today for the first time, and he enjoyed it quite a lot. He already asked me to set the tray nearby for another session tomorrow :-)

I found this method by my friend Meixia to be very simple, effective and also very inexpensive. What a better way to show Chinese characters than by writing it down yourself and show it to your child in real time. It is not necessary to buy expensive flash cards or DVD.

Don't show any picture with the character. I find showing picture to be a distraction to learning Chinese characters, as Joshua tended to look at the picture, and not the Chinese character. In this way, it really helped Joshua to only focus on the characters.

For younger children, keep it simple by limiting it to one-character word per card as shown above.

Yes, for the Europeans, this is a form of rote-learning. There is no other way of learning Chinese, except by rote learning. And it is amazing that toddlers like Daniel have such good memory. Incidentally, the characters are very intuitive, even for Joshua. For example, when I showed him the Chinese character for rain "雨", he pointed by himself to the rain drops in the character, before I could point out and explain it to him. And straight away he could remember and recognize the character for rain, when I showed him again.

Updates 3.12.2011:
Joshua (2Y8M28D) is very interested in reading, but does not seem to show any interest in recognizing Chinese characters. He is only interested in recognizing 4 characters - mom, dad and his name in Chinese. I showed him the character for mom and dad, and he asked me more than once for his name. So finally I wrote it for him. Now, he recognizes these 4 Chinese characters - 妈, 爸 and 慨恩.

References:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150451140445091
http://www.words-chinese.com/symbols/_education.htm

Montessori Activity: Teaching Letters with Playdough

Age: From 2 years old

Objective(s):
1. To teach letters in a fun way.
2. To train fine motor skills.

Materials:
1. 1 sore-bought or homemade playdough
2. 5 Letter moulds
3. 1 child's size rolling-pin (from IKEA)
4. 1 tray

Directions:
1. Show your child how to mould a letter.

2. Invite your child to try.

3. Store it in the fridge until ready to be used. Let it thaw first, it will be easier to work with.

Tips:
Mold your child's name

Additional Information:
Joshua tried it today, but he was rather sceptical about tasting it. But once he took the first bite, he was hooked :-) Thereafter, he spent more time tasting than playing with the dough. So an edible dough can be distractive.

Healthy Tasty & Nutritious Edible Playdough

Makes the size of 1 tennis ball

Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup almond or hazelnut butter
- 50ml liquid honey or maple syrup
- 1/2 cup rolled oats ground
- 1 TBS of wheatgerm ground
- 1 tsp of brewer's yeast
- 1 tsp oil (optional: avocado oil or any nut oil such as walnut oil)
- 1 tsp carob powder (optional, to make it chocolaty)
- Food color (optional)

Directions:
1. In a large bowl, mix in almond butter and honey and mix well.

2. Add ground roll oats slowly in along with the rest of the ingredients and mix well.

3. Knead until smooth. Adjust with almond butter, ground rolled oats or honey accordingly.

How to play?
Here is one way.

Tips:
1. After playing with it, use it as spread on the bread for your child's lunch box, for example.
2. Bake it in the oven as cookies at 200 °C (392 ° F) for 5 - 7 minutes or
3. Simply eat it on its own by rolling it into small balls, refrigerate for 15 minutes and ready to serve as snack.

Additional Information:
I tried to research the internet for edible playdough, but only came across the tasty but rather unhealthy ones. Ok, given it is playdough and not dessert, it shouldn't matter much, but I just wanted to find something that is healthier.

Most of the recipes call for dry powdered milk as the replacement for flour in the playdough, which in my opinion is too much dairy. And for the Chinese, it will create too much heatiness in the child, eating milk powder straight!!!

The most popular edible play dough from the internet is peanut butter, but I am not a great fan of peanut butter. I like it, but not enough to want to eat it as playdough. However, I like hazelnut and almond butter.

So I have decided to experiment and make my own edible playdough that is fun, tasty and at the same time nutritious minus the dairy.

This can be an activity for a small children's birthday party, if one can ensure that the hands of the children are clean to play with edible playdough. I know I have classified this under the label "Inexpensive Birthday Ideas", even though this dough is a rather expensive dough. However, in comparison to the cost with the recent trend of Singaporean parents celebrating small children's birthday with hired chef in the form of prata man, balloon man, magician, etc. for small children birthday party, this idea is then indeed fun and a lot way less expensive! It is all relative I guess.

I woke up early this morning before Joshua woke up to make it. It is really tasty, and I hope I can wait till Joshua waits up to play with it and not eat it myself!

This is an activity you can do with your child.

Links:
http://livelearnloveeat.com/2015/02/13/healthy-naturally-sweetened-edible-play-dough/
https://youtu.be/b2eV2zkwAq4

Here are the steps in pictures:

Updates: 29 June 2014 (5Y3M24D)

It was a long time since we did this activity, when J was 2.5 years old. But he remembered it. J has been requesting to make edible playdough for sometime, and we made it together today. We made different color ones this time. He wanted to make his name too. I made the fruits. Then J got the idea to make lollipop with the playdough.

We are out of the normal routine today. That meant that we did not have a rigorious learning day (by that I meant writing Chinese character, piano practice, etc., but we did manage to write a page of Chinese character and a more relax piano practise), but it was only during the most unexpected time that memory is made. It has been very special and memorable one-to-one time. God is trying to speak to me and teaching me the balance of being more relaxed.



Pan-fried Plaice Fish

Serves 4

Preparation & Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:
- 3 TBS bread crump (rasp) or rye flour
- 2 tsp wheat germ (optional)
- 1 tsp brewer's yeast
- 1 egg
- 500g or 5-6 pieces of plaice fillets (rødspætte)
- 2 TBS cooking oil
- Sprinkle salt and pepper

Directions:
1. Mix ingredients 1 – 3 together on a plate

2. Beat egg

3. Sprinkle salt and pepper on fish, then dip fish into egg mixture to coat it, and then roll fish into the dry mixture to coat it.

4. Fry on pan with a little oil for 2 minutes on each side.

5. Serve immediately.

Nutritional Value:
Plaice is an outstanding source of B12 and also contains plenty of the fat-soluble vitamins A and D. The fat content of plaice varies, entailing a corresponding variation in the amount of omega-3 fatty acids.

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Additional Comments:
I made this for dinner today and Joshua loved it. I serve with potatoes and red pepper bell.

Danish Fish Cakes/Friske Fiskefrikadelle

Recipe adapted from 24timer

Serves 4

Preparation & Cooking Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients:
- 500g cod fish fillet (Torske fillet eller lange, mørk-eller lyssej, kuller, kulmule eller brosme)
- 2 stalks of spring onions chopped
- 2 TBS graham flour (or white flour)
- 2 TBS cooking oil
- 100 - 150ml skimmed milk
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp salt and pepper
- 1 tsp brewer's yeast (optional)
- 1 tsp wheatgerm (optional)

Directions:
1. Cut the fish fillets into smaller pieces.

2. Add fish, spring onion, salt and pepper in a blend and blend well at high speed until it goes around in the blender like a ball.

3. Add egg and blend again until the fish become a ball.

4. Add milk and blend again.

5. Add flour, brewer's yeast and wheatgerm and blend a little more.

6. Form 12 - 16 into balls (using two tablespoons).

7. Heat pan with oil on high heat and fry until golden, then turn over and fry the other side until golden (you may need to turn down the fire from here on).

Tips:
You can also add other vegetables such as carrots into the fish cakes mixture.

Additional Information:
This is a very Danish dish and the Danish kids love this. I made this for the first time for dinner and Joshua loved it. I have saved the remaining for his lunch tomorrow. Florian liked it too. It is nice to be able to know what ingredients go into the homemade fish cakes, compared to store-bought ones.

The original calls for white flour, but I use graham flour instead. The original calls for frying with butter, but I use cooking oil instead.

Eating the Danish fish cakes made me think of the Chinese fish balls. When I have a chance, I will make the Chinese fishballs.

References:
- 24timer

Montessori Activity: Practise Pincer Grasp with a Playdough Peacock

Idea from My Montessori Momemts

Age: From 2.5 years old

Objective: To provide a fun way to practise pincer grip and fine motor skills

Materials:
1. Some feathers (if you don't have feathers, you can use toothpicks and make a poccupine instead :-))
2. 1 lump of store-bought or homemade playdough

Directions:
1. Demonstrate to your child how to insert the feathers into the playdough to form the tail of the peacock.

2. Invite your child to try.

Additional Information:
Joshua is still not very good with his pincher grip. I have some feathers at home and I found this fun idea from My Montessori Moments. I also made my own playdough for the first time today. So I decided that I am going to let Joshua try this activity. I think it looks more like peacock than turkey, thus I am claling ours a playdough peacock.

How to Make Homemade Playdough?

Cooked Playdough

Ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups water
- 2 TBS cooking oil
- 1 cup salt
- a couple drops of food colouring

Directions:
1. Dissolve the salt in the water first to reduce the lumpiness due to undissolved salt in the dough later on.

2. Mix together and cook in a saucepan over low heat until mixture looks smooth with no lumps in the flour remaining and the mixture pulls away from the side of the pan (no. 4 - 5 on my stove for about 7.5 minutes ). Stir constantly!

3. Knead the dough while it is still warm and divide it into 4 doughs, dip a hole and add food colouring to it (make sure to wear gloves to prevent staining. Then knead and blend well.

Video Demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys9Qmm6FfkM

Additional Information:
It is the first time I made playdough myself. I have been wanting to try it, but didn't get around it. It was rather fast to make, but the colouring part took longer in order to get the richness of the colours I desired. It also suck up a lot of food colouring! Because it required so much colouring, it ended up with too much liquid added and my playdough became too sticky. I adjusted with more flour to reduce the stickiness. But it got too hard! I then added more cooking oil to make it softer. I should also have dissolved the salt first, before mixing it into the rest of ingredients, as the low heat on the stove did not help to dissolve the salt. This is the lesson l learned.

It is not necessary to make cream of tartar, although it would improve the consistency. The salt in the playdough is added to serve as preservative and help the playdough last longer. If you have baby less than 1 year old, who are still putting things into the mouth, you can do without the salt, but the playdough would not last long.

Here are some ideas how to play with playdough - let your child make his own own cakes, cookies, etc. Set up a tray with coloured dough and some objects for your child to shape the dough with. Cookie cutters, toothpicks, and bottle caps are all good choices. Four-year-olds love to use garlic presses. Two- and 3-year-olds may have trouble squeezing the garlic press together, but they can use plastic knives and scissors to cut the play dough. Here is how you can make playdough.

Picture showing steps on how to make your own playdough:

Below are other different recipes I gathered from the net:

Uncooked Playdough

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1 cup salt
1 cup water
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Directions:
1. Mix dry ingredients and then add wet ingredients.
2. Knead until smooth.

Additional Information:
Children can mix this themselves. Put it into zip lock bags and store in the refrigerator.

Uncooked Oatmeal Playdough

Ingredients:
- 2 cups oatmeal
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup water

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a bowl; mix well and knead until smooth.

Additional Information:
Store covered in refrigerator. This doesn't last as long as cooked playdough. This is ideal if your child would like to make playdough himself. Oatmeal playdough dries out easily and can be painted when it's dry.

Magic Playdough

Ingredients:
- 3 cups self raising flour
- 1 cup water

Directions:
Mix the flour and water together and knead thoroughly. The mixture should not be sticky, so add more flour until you are satisfies with the texture.

Additional Information:
This playdough is soft and pliable and fells like risen yeast when it is handled.

Tasty Peanut Butter Playdough

Ingredients:
- 1 cup peanut butter or almond butter
- 1 cup liquid honey
- 1 cup powdered milk
- 1 cup rolled oats ground

Directions:
In a large bowl, mix all ingredients. Knead until smooth. Adjust with powdered milk accordingly.

Tasty Edible Playdough

Ingredients:
- 1 cup almond or hazelnut butter
- 1 cup liquid honey
- 2 cups rolled oats ground

Directions:
In a large bowl, mix all ingredients. Knead until smooth. Adjust with almond butter or ground rolled oats accordingly.

References:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2282292_make-edible-play-dough.html

http://fun.familyeducation.com/sculpting/recipes/37040.html

http://www.makeandtakes.com/homemade-playdough

http://www.makeandtakes.com/more-playdough-fun

http://www.makeandtakes.com/edible-playdough-you-will-want-to-eat

http://babyparenting.about.com/od/miscellaneousrecipes/a/Uncooked-Playdough-Recipes.htm

http://www.fun-baby-games-online.com/how-to-make-playdough.html

http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/activites_for_2_s.html#AugustPlaydough

http://www.naturalparentingtips.com/playdough/ultimate-playdough-recipe-resource/