Creative Fun

Milo's health has improved over the last few days so we've had more flexibility to do different activities.  We've been having lots of creative fun over the last couple of days and Milo and the Berry have really enjoyed it. 

First of all we made playdough in 4 different flavours/scents/colours, using the this easy 4 minute recipe from the Imagination Tree Blog.   

We made yummy pink strawberry  for making sweeties and cakes.  The Berry enjoyed wrapping up her 'sweeties' in cellophane twists.

Yummy rich chocolate flavour

Mint chocolate chip ice cream flavour .

My favourite was cinnamon and nutmeg cookie dough!   Mmmm delicious!

 Patting and baking.

 Proudly showing daddy everything she had made.

 Practiscing cutting skills to give everyone a slice of the cake.

 Milo enjoyed squashing and pulling the yummy chocolate playdough.  He even tried to taste a bit and wasn't put off by the saltyness!

 Silicone cup cake cases were so much fun. Milo got really excited with them!

The playdough activity made me realise that Milo is ready to do some sensory food play and this might help him develop his self feeding skills and hand eye coordination.  'Messy play' seemed the logical way to do this.

We had some left over spaghetti and pesto and I stripped him down to his nappy.

Loving dangling 2 hands full.

I've just invested in a builders tray which is so versatile for containing activities like this. We love it!  They use them loads at the Berry's nursery and they showed me this book which really inspired me to get one.

 Looking pretty!

 He loves his mama!

 Yumm!

 So funny!

 Concentrating

Ta da, spaghetti baby!

Off for some water play in the bath!

 Spaghetti was such a hit I racked my brain to come up with other sensory ideas.  This sparkly packaging was another ideal texture to run through his fingers and less mess for me to clean up!

 It was another hit!

 Hilarious!

Love those little toes!  Gorgeous boy x