Edible Peanut Butter Play Dough

I confess my kids eat play dough. There must be something to that flour and salt mixture they like, though I can’t think of what it is? The food dye maybe?

In search of something less food dye-y and less salty and more food-y to make play dough out of I stumbled across this recipe for Edible Peanut Butter Play Dough.

Edible Peanut Butter Play Dough:

1 C creamy peanut butter
2 C powdered sugar
1/2 C honey

Mix the ingredients together with no mess using an electric mixer or let your kids do it for an extremely fun and messy time.

I used the organic make-it-your-self peanut butter from the bulk section at HEB. The crunchy texture did not deter my kids at all and made it feel kind of cool. I’m thinking next time I should use chocolate peanut butter or Reece’s peanut butter or a combo?… Mmmmm… Reece’s chocolate peanut butter play dough….

Do I feel better that instead of salt and flour my kids are eating sugar and peanut butter? I’m not sure. But it was fun!

The Laundry Room

Most of us have a laundry room and most of us want to spend as little time in that glorified closet as possible. I was no exception to this. Until one day I was folding laundry in my messy and unattractive room and thought, hey I could do something about this!


I already had some lime green things so I went with that color. I got a lime green milk box and lime green Sterilite box from Target for under 10 dollars. I put all that extra stuff that seems to collect in a laundry room because it has no where else to go in the milk box and put my poor fluffy puppy's food in the Sterilite box. I had some green and blue artwork made by my oldest son and hung it on the walls. I found a broken fish lamp and hung that up just for something fun. There wasn't anything too crafty about all that I did but it certainly did make the room feel that much better!

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Free Pizza from Rudino's!

Thank you Free Fun in Austin for posting this deal. If you haven't checked out this blog yet please do. Tons and Tons and TONS of cheap and free things to do all over Austin and the surrounding areas for families. It has kept my toddlers occupied many days with all the neat activities that I would have never known about otherwise!

Morgan's Deals, a Groupon like site, has a 10 dollar deal for 20 dollars worth of Rudino's Pizza. There are also two coupon codes out to take 10 dollars off your total making the pizza free! You could get 40 dollars worth of pizza for free if you use one coupon per transaction! How awesome is that?! The codes are MDAEL and MDVALPAK. Head on over to Morgan's Deals now and get 20 (or 40) dollars worth of pizza for free!

Pirate Night at Chick-Fil-A

Today was Pirate and Princess Night at Chick-Fil-A on North Mopac. If your kids dressed up as a pirate or princess they got a free kids meal. I crafted two quick pirate customs out of two old bandanas lying around and some cardboard. Easy and no sewing involved at all and it took less than 15 minutes. My 3-year-old was even able to help a bit.

Take a bandanna cut in half on the diagonal. Set aside one half to tie as a due rag. Take the other half and measure (or guesstimate) 3 inches from the raw edge and cut again to create a belt.

Take some cardboard, draw a sword shape and cut it out. There ya go! Done! And what did you win? A free Chick-Fil-A kids meal! And a happy goofy kid!

PS: You don't have to buy anything to get the kids meal free. I just got a coke. Made the whole trip less than 2 dollars, including the costumes!