Best Homemade playdough

Between Christmas in addition to birthdays, we've collected a lot of "Play-Doh" construct playdough over the in conclusion few months. But I finally got tired of it drying out in addition to crumbling in addition to ending upward all over the floor. It was fourth dimension to construct unopen to homemade playdough in addition to enjoin goodbye to the rest. Homemade doesn't dry out out equally fast, has a softer texture, in addition to I don't accept to vacuum the flooring every fourth dimension the kids play amongst it. And only a few colors are all the kids actually need.

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Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1 loving cup water
1/4 loving cup salt
2 tsp. cream of tarter
1 Tbsp. vegetable oil
Food coloring

* Put all ingredients inwards a pot in addition to stir
* Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until it forms into a ball
* Dump onto wax newspaper or your counter. When cool, knead until soft.

I dearest how unproblematic in addition to tardily this recipe is. I shop the playdough inwards reusable tupperware containers to proceed it soft. My sister uses Kool-Aid instead of nutrient coloring, which makes it odour expert too. Something to try.


Daniel made "eggs" amongst his playdough


John made a huge cake, had us all sing "Happy Birthday" to Daniel (whose birthday is inwards a few weeks), in addition to thus cutting it upward in addition to gave us each a slice.


And Joe was the in conclusion survivor! Making who knows what.

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Best Homemade playdough

Between Christmas in addition to birthdays, we've collected a lot of "Play-Doh" construct playdough over the in conclusion few months. But I finally got tired of it drying out in addition to crumbling in addition to ending upward all over the floor. It was fourth dimension to construct unopen to homemade playdough in addition to enjoin goodbye to the rest. Homemade doesn't dry out out equally fast, has a softer texture, in addition to I don't accept to vacuum the flooring every fourth dimension the kids play amongst it. And only a few colors are all the kids actually need.

old one!)

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1 loving cup water
1/4 loving cup salt
2 tsp. cream of tarter
1 Tbsp. vegetable oil
Food coloring

* Put all ingredients inwards a pot in addition to stir
* Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until it forms into a ball
* Dump onto wax newspaper or your counter. When cool, knead until soft.

I dearest how unproblematic in addition to tardily this recipe is. I shop the playdough inwards reusable tupperware containers to proceed it soft. My sister uses Kool-Aid instead of nutrient coloring, which makes it odour expert too. Something to try.


Daniel made "eggs" amongst his playdough


John made a huge cake, had us all sing "Happy Birthday" to Daniel (whose birthday is inwards a few weeks), in addition to thus cutting it upward in addition to gave us each a slice.


And Joe was the in conclusion survivor! Making who knows what.

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Best Bridging, Rededication in addition to Investiture Certificates are Here!

Yikes! I'm gettin' things done! Fresh off the presses, so-to-speak, are the novel bridging, investiture in addition to rededication certificates.  These turned out lovelier than I could accept hoped in addition to I in addition to therefore enjoyed making them.

I volition personalize each certificate alongside the next information:

* Girl’s names
* Level (Daisies, Brownies, Juniors, Cadettes, Seniors & Ambassadors)
* Troop Number, Service Unit, Council name, etc. (optional)

The damage varies alongside the seat out of girls. The max is 25 names per lodge in addition to therefore exclusively ane troop per lodge please. Multi-level troops okay! Here's a peak:

The rainbow features all the iamgirlscouts colors, all levels in addition to both the hope in addition to the law.  You tin respect them inwards my etsy store.

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Best Homemade laundry detergent

I had never fifty-fifty heard or idea of making your ain laundry detergent until my friend Nicole posted the recipe she uses a duad months back. Ever since too hence I convey been excited to brand my ain too convey waited patiently for our large box of store-bought detergent to run out. Why brand your ain laundry detergent? It tin shipping away salvage yous money, it tin shipping away live on a fun too satisfying projection to produce amongst your kids (or past times yourself), it's quick too really easy, and, most importantly to me, it is neat for kids/adults amongst sensitive skin. Joe too Dan both convey eczema that comes too goes, too I convey been pregnant to endeavor using a gentler detergent for quite around time. I likewise wanted a skin-sensitive detergent for when the infant comes, hence I'm happy to right away depository fiscal establishment tally that off my list. Read on for the recipe! You'll live on amazed at how uncomplicated it is.



What you'll need:
1 loving cup Borax
1 loving cup Arm too Hammer Super Washing Soda
1 bar Fels-Neptha (or Ivory Soap)

Finely grate the bar of Fels-Neptha (or Ivory Soap). You could likewise piece of occupation a nutrient processor to larn a to a greater extent than finely grated soap... wishing nosotros had ane of those :)


Add 1 loving cup Borax too 1 loving cup Arm too Hammer Super Washing Soda


I wasn't satisfied amongst having the bigger chunks of lather mixed inward amongst the 2 finer powders, hence I threw it all into my blender for a infinitesimal or two.


Pour it all into the container yous desire to shop it inward too outset using it! Use 1-2 tablespoons per load, 2 for a large or heavily-soiled load. One batch of detergent should live on plenty for close 64 loads of laundry, precisely it's slow to double or triple the recipe hence it volition terminal longer. So far no complaints from me!

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Best Homemade laundry detergent

I had never fifty-fifty heard or idea of making your ain laundry detergent until my friend Nicole posted the recipe she uses a duad months back. Ever since too hence I convey been excited to brand my ain too convey waited patiently for our large box of store-bought detergent to run out. Why brand your ain laundry detergent? It tin shipping away salvage yous money, it tin shipping away live on a fun too satisfying projection to produce amongst your kids (or past times yourself), it's quick too really easy, and, most importantly to me, it is neat for kids/adults amongst sensitive skin. Joe too Dan both convey eczema that comes too goes, too I convey been pregnant to endeavor using a gentler detergent for quite around time. I likewise wanted a skin-sensitive detergent for when the infant comes, hence I'm happy to right away depository fiscal establishment tally that off my list. Read on for the recipe! You'll live on amazed at how uncomplicated it is.



What you'll need:
1 loving cup Borax
1 loving cup Arm too Hammer Super Washing Soda
1 bar Fels-Neptha (or Ivory Soap)

Finely grate the bar of Fels-Neptha (or Ivory Soap). You could likewise piece of occupation a nutrient processor to larn a to a greater extent than finely grated soap... wishing nosotros had ane of those :)


Add 1 loving cup Borax too 1 loving cup Arm too Hammer Super Washing Soda


I wasn't satisfied amongst having the bigger chunks of lather mixed inward amongst the 2 finer powders, hence I threw it all into my blender for a infinitesimal or two.


Pour it all into the container yous desire to shop it inward too outset using it! Use 1-2 tablespoons per load, 2 for a large or heavily-soiled load. One batch of detergent should live on plenty for close 64 loads of laundry, precisely it's slow to double or triple the recipe hence it volition terminal longer. So far no complaints from me!

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Best All Badge Trackers Updated!

The novel Art inwards the Outdoors badges bring been added to the badge trackers for each level.  I've equally good consolidated the improver page amongst the outdoor badges on it into the tracker packet.  So all of the badges are available inwards ane consummate download. There are 2 versions: a Word MD too a pdf.  You tin honour them on the resources page.

xoxo

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Best What to produce amongst body of body of water shell/rock collection

Whenever nosotros instruct on trips to a lake or beach, nosotros collect bounding main shells together with rocks together with convey them home. We've added quite a few to our collection over the years every bit I accept had a difficult fourth dimension throwing them away. So I survive decided to produce something alongside them instead of permit them sit down inward the basement. I got this persuasion from a journal I was looking through at a MD solar daytime of the month (you never know when you're going to instruct but about inspiration!) You pigment a frame white, encompass the cardboard alongside fabric, hence hot gum gun your shells/rocks onto it, leaving the drinking glass out. Pretty slow right? The 1 I saw had glued a unmarried star fish on top of lite bluish fabric. Very uncomplicated together with cute. Our invitee room/nursery was inward postulate of something on the walls, hence this did the chore together with brings dorsum but about fun memories.



Doing this projection gave me but about other persuasion that would live fun to produce alongside the kids inward the future. Save a shell/rock from each of our vacations to a lake or beach together with gum that onto but about variety of board. Then accept the kids write underneath the shell, when together with where they flora it. Could live a fun collection to have. Just an idea..

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Best What to produce amongst body of body of water shell/rock collection

Whenever nosotros instruct on trips to a lake or beach, nosotros collect bounding main shells together with rocks together with convey them home. We've added quite a few to our collection over the years every bit I accept had a difficult fourth dimension throwing them away. So I survive decided to produce something alongside them instead of permit them sit down inward the basement. I got this persuasion from a journal I was looking through at a MD solar daytime of the month (you never know when you're going to instruct but about inspiration!) You pigment a frame white, encompass the cardboard alongside fabric, hence hot gum gun your shells/rocks onto it, leaving the drinking glass out. Pretty slow right? The 1 I saw had glued a unmarried star fish on top of lite bluish fabric. Very uncomplicated together with cute. Our invitee room/nursery was inward postulate of something on the walls, hence this did the chore together with brings dorsum but about fun memories.



Doing this projection gave me but about other persuasion that would live fun to produce alongside the kids inward the future. Save a shell/rock from each of our vacations to a lake or beach together with gum that onto but about variety of board. Then accept the kids write underneath the shell, when together with where they flora it. Could live a fun collection to have. Just an idea..

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Best Bread making day

Yesterday afternoon was dedicated to making our breadstuff for the month. I took payoff of Joe taking a nap together with John beingness at schoolhouse together with had Daniel all to myself inwards the kitchen. I commonly enter amongst all iii boys hence they tin post away each larn their footling fingers into it, merely yesterday thinking most the cleanup that comes amongst that shied me away. I also decided to accept a interruption from the normal wheat breadstuff together with made five beautiful loaves of WHITE BREAD. I get got a recipe that is to give-up the ghost for! Makes the moistest, yummiest, melt-in-your-mouth breadstuff you lot tin post away imagine. Read on for the recipe...



Family White Bread

8 C. flour
2 1/2 T. salt
1 C. sugar
2 1/2 T. dry out yeast
1/3 C. mashed potatoes (Secret ingredient! Makes the breadstuff real moist)
6 C. warm water
1 C. oil
4-8 C. additional flour
*You'll also require a Bosch mixer or equivalent*

Stir flour, salt, saccharide together with dry out yeast together inwards your mixer. Then add together the potatoes, H2O together with oil. Using your breadstuff hook, knead for five minutes. Then add together 4-8 C. flour equally needed until the dough cleans the sides together with bottom of the bowl. Let the mixer knead the dough for 10 to a greater extent than minutes. Pour dough onto floured surface. The dough tin post away last real sticky, I utilisation flour liberally.



I pulled a chunk off for Daniel together with allow him become at it. He rolled out the dough, cutting it into strips amongst the pizza cutter, together with then sprinkled cinnamon saccharide over the top.

Form into five loaves together with house inwards breadstuff pans sprayed amongst nonstick spray. Turn oven to warm. When heated, plow oven off. Place pans inwards oven, nigh door, together with laid upward timer for thirty minutes.



When thirty minutes is up, plow the oven on to 350 degrees together with bake for thirty minutes.



And out comes golden deliciousness! Turn the loaves out onto a cooling rack together with brush the tops amongst butter. Once they're cool I cutting them into sparse slices, lay them inwards breadstuff bags together with freeze them. Then whenever nosotros require about other loaf of breadstuff I tin post away accept i out together with stick it inwards the fridge.

The best purpose most this bread? Eating it! The kids ever devour breadstuff fresh out of the oven. And who tin post away blame them.

Dan enjoyed his "cinnamon sticks" dipped inwards frosting. Yum!

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Best Bread making day

Yesterday afternoon was dedicated to making our breadstuff for the month. I took payoff of Joe taking a nap together with John beingness at schoolhouse together with had Daniel all to myself inwards the kitchen. I commonly enter amongst all iii boys hence they tin post away each larn their footling fingers into it, merely yesterday thinking most the cleanup that comes amongst that shied me away. I also decided to accept a interruption from the normal wheat breadstuff together with made five beautiful loaves of WHITE BREAD. I get got a recipe that is to give-up the ghost for! Makes the moistest, yummiest, melt-in-your-mouth breadstuff you lot tin post away imagine. Read on for the recipe...



Family White Bread

8 C. flour
2 1/2 T. salt
1 C. sugar
2 1/2 T. dry out yeast
1/3 C. mashed potatoes (Secret ingredient! Makes the breadstuff real moist)
6 C. warm water
1 C. oil
4-8 C. additional flour
*You'll also require a Bosch mixer or equivalent*

Stir flour, salt, saccharide together with dry out yeast together inwards your mixer. Then add together the potatoes, H2O together with oil. Using your breadstuff hook, knead for five minutes. Then add together 4-8 C. flour equally needed until the dough cleans the sides together with bottom of the bowl. Let the mixer knead the dough for 10 to a greater extent than minutes. Pour dough onto floured surface. The dough tin post away last real sticky, I utilisation flour liberally.



I pulled a chunk off for Daniel together with allow him become at it. He rolled out the dough, cutting it into strips amongst the pizza cutter, together with then sprinkled cinnamon saccharide over the top.

Form into five loaves together with house inwards breadstuff pans sprayed amongst nonstick spray. Turn oven to warm. When heated, plow oven off. Place pans inwards oven, nigh door, together with laid upward timer for thirty minutes.



When thirty minutes is up, plow the oven on to 350 degrees together with bake for thirty minutes.



And out comes golden deliciousness! Turn the loaves out onto a cooling rack together with brush the tops amongst butter. Once they're cool I cutting them into sparse slices, lay them inwards breadstuff bags together with freeze them. Then whenever nosotros require about other loaf of breadstuff I tin post away accept i out together with stick it inwards the fridge.

The best purpose most this bread? Eating it! The kids ever devour breadstuff fresh out of the oven. And who tin post away blame them.

Dan enjoyed his "cinnamon sticks" dipped inwards frosting. Yum!

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Best Toddler bed quilt

We of late kicked Joe out of the plant nursery together with moved him inwards amongst his older brothers inwards training for the babe (8 weeks together with six days to go! But who's counting?) We railroad train the toddler bed side past times side to the bunks, together with I decided to plough over my mitt a endeavour at quilt making. Here's the lastly outcome inwards all its glory. It's made from scraps of the bunk downwardly comforter covers, some cloth I used years agone to brand pj's for Pete together with John, some onetime pajamas of mine, together with some of Pete's together with Dan's onetime jeans. This was my get-go quilt, together with I actually didn't know what I was doing, simply I'll rate yous what I did anyway: First I cutting all the cloth into 6" squares, put them all out inwards the designing I wanted, sewed them inwards strips, together with then sewed those strips together. Then I bought flannel cloth for the bottom side together with batting for the within together with taped each layer, 1 on locomote past times of the other, to our basement floor, making certain to larn all of the wrinkles out (a method my friend Alison told me close thence yous don't accept to purpose a quilting frame... plant good on smaller quilts.) Then I pinned the layers together every 6-8 inches, took off all the tape, tied floss inwards every corner of each square, together with then finally sewed bias record some the entire quilt. Done. I worked on this over the flat of a few weeks, an hr or thence at a time, thence it didn't look quite thence overwhelming. Consider it a success! Not the lastly quilt I'll live making.

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Best Toddler bed quilt

We of late kicked Joe out of the plant nursery together with moved him inwards amongst his older brothers inwards training for the babe (8 weeks together with six days to go! But who's counting?) We railroad train the toddler bed side past times side to the bunks, together with I decided to plough over my mitt a endeavour at quilt making. Here's the lastly outcome inwards all its glory. It's made from scraps of the bunk downwardly comforter covers, some cloth I used years agone to brand pj's for Pete together with John, some onetime pajamas of mine, together with some of Pete's together with Dan's onetime jeans. This was my get-go quilt, together with I actually didn't know what I was doing, simply I'll rate yous what I did anyway: First I cutting all the cloth into 6" squares, put them all out inwards the designing I wanted, sewed them inwards strips, together with then sewed those strips together. Then I bought flannel cloth for the bottom side together with batting for the within together with taped each layer, 1 on locomote past times of the other, to our basement floor, making certain to larn all of the wrinkles out (a method my friend Alison told me close thence yous don't accept to purpose a quilting frame... plant good on smaller quilts.) Then I pinned the layers together every 6-8 inches, took off all the tape, tied floss inwards every corner of each square, together with then finally sewed bias record some the entire quilt. Done. I worked on this over the flat of a few weeks, an hr or thence at a time, thence it didn't look quite thence overwhelming. Consider it a success! Not the lastly quilt I'll live making.

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Best Girl Scouts Has New Fonts!

Happy Summer Everyone!

I'm therefore really excited to tell you, Girl Scouts has novel fonts!!!  Okay, I'll hold out honest, it doesn't cause got much for me to larn excited when it comes to fonts. For years Girl Scouts has had exclusive license on their Omnes font family, piece using to a greater extent than well-known gratuitous fonts for things similar the "Girl Guide to Girl Scouting".  I've posted near that here.

In 2016, Girl Scouts desired a font "suite"--a collection of fonts--versatile plenty for "age-specific flexibility".  GSUSA enlisted the services of Positype to practise fonts that would practise only that.  Introducing: Trefoil Sans as well as Trefoil Slab. These fonts, equally you'll notice, are really "Omnes-like".

In add-on to the trefoil pair, Positype created the next iterations equally well:

Shortbread Script {my favorite}:

Thin Mint Script:

Trefoil DIY:

The inwards a higher house types are adorable, cute as well as adaptable only similar Girl Scouts! Here is the Shortbread Script font inwards activeness inwards the novel Art inwards the Outdoors badge requirements:

I wishing that I could tell it volition hold out tardily to larn our hands on these fonts one-time soon, but that is non the case, non for several years. You run across the licensing of a custom, copyrighted font allows GSUSA a exclusive license of the font.  Eventually knock-offs volition hold out created as well as past times therefore it's probable Girl Scouts volition "rebrand" again.  I'm happy to run across they are keeping the build up-to-date piece withal maintaining their uniqueness.  Meanwhile I'll cash inwards one's chips along my ear to the reason inwards search of similar fonts!

To read the entire article near the creation of the novel GSUSA font suite, become here.

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Best Growth Chart

I've been wanting about form of a increment nautical chart to expire on rails of how much the kids are growing each year. It's been on my mental listing of things to create for quite about time. So I lucked out when my sis drew my mention for Christmas together with made this for me! I dear how unproblematic it is together with how portable it is. She gave it to me rolled upwards inwards a cute niggling cylinder-shaped container amongst permanent markers to rails the kids' growth. I had each of the kids alternative out the coloring of mark they wanted, together with that's what we'll purpose to mensurate them each year. She made it using vinyl together with stick-on vinyl for the letters together with tick marks, together with thence used modge podge to ensure the vinyl didn't come upwards off. Love it. Thanks Brittney!

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Best Growth Chart

I've been wanting about form of a increment nautical chart to expire on rails of how much the kids are growing each year. It's been on my mental listing of things to create for quite about time. So I lucked out when my sis drew my mention for Christmas together with made this for me! I dear how unproblematic it is together with how portable it is. She gave it to me rolled upwards inwards a cute niggling cylinder-shaped container amongst permanent markers to rails the kids' growth. I had each of the kids alternative out the coloring of mark they wanted, together with that's what we'll purpose to mensurate them each year. She made it using vinyl together with stick-on vinyl for the letters together with tick marks, together with thence used modge podge to ensure the vinyl didn't come upwards off. Love it. Thanks Brittney!

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Best New Year's Day Organization: the kitchen pantry

We bought these can organizers years ago, in addition to they convey been good worth the money. The racks rotate the oldest tin post away to the front/bottom, in addition to they piece of job inwards in addition to then slow to abide by what you're looking for in addition to to know just how many you lot have. At the begin of this novel twelvemonth nosotros develop only about coin aside for nutrient storage, in addition to ane of the firstly things nosotros did was purchase plenty cans to refill these racks. So straight off equally long equally I continue them sum I tin post away experience residue assured that nosotros at to the lowest degree convey fourscore cans or in addition to then of nutrient inwards our pantry inwards example at that spot were an emergency. Not an entire 3-month supply, but a expert start!

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Best New Year's Day Organization: the kitchen pantry

We bought these can organizers years ago, in addition to they convey been good worth the money. The racks rotate the oldest tin post away to the front/bottom, in addition to they piece of job inwards in addition to then slow to abide by what you're looking for in addition to to know just how many you lot have. At the begin of this novel twelvemonth nosotros develop only about coin aside for nutrient storage, in addition to ane of the firstly things nosotros did was purchase plenty cans to refill these racks. So straight off equally long equally I continue them sum I tin post away experience residue assured that nosotros at to the lowest degree convey fourscore cans or in addition to then of nutrient inwards our pantry inwards example at that spot were an emergency. Not an entire 3-month supply, but a expert start!

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Best Custom T-shirt Design for Girl Scout Convention Ohio G.I.R.L. 2017

Looking to a cute t-shirt blueprint for your troop's trip to Convention inwards Colombus, OH? Look no further. This shirt blueprint features the pose down of Ohio on the front end along amongst the yr in addition to phrase "Ohio Convention Here We Come!". Also includes advert customization for all troop members. On the dorsum is your dwelling state, amongst a pump designating either your urban essence or council location. Can include your council advert or troop publish underneath the pose down silhouette.

Variation 1

Variation 2

You volition have a high resolution t-shirt graphic inwards dark in addition to white, i for each name/troop member. I produce non impress the actual t-shirts. You tin forcefulness out accept the blueprint into whatever covert printer in addition to have got shirts made or purpose Fe on kits from constituent render stores. The graphic volition endure delivered inwards digital, high-quality PDF file (requires Adobe Reader to open). (Nothing is provided via the Postal Service}. Because this is a digital file - in i lawsuit the guild is finalized, you lot tin forcefulness out purpose your graphic endlessly for your personal use! Order your blueprint here.

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