Monday, 18 January 2016

Messy SHIT!

It's that time of year..... Christmas is over, New Year resolutions have been made and given up on, working parents have used pretty much all their annual leave up and you're two weeks past wanting the school holidays to be over. WHEN WILL THEY END??? 

7 weeks is far too long to have off with your children, even on a staggered "sharing with the grandparents, sending them to holiday program, pushing them onto school friends" basis.

Well, we here at RAD Inc. have some fantastic messy shit recipes to brighten up your kids day - these may in fact stop them from nagging for an hour!  You're welcome!


*WARNING: This shit is MESSY! Make sure you have your whole dining room and lounge covered in plastic or a tarpaulin. Alternatively, chuck the bowl outside with the kids and lock all doors.


Footpath Chalk Paint
1 cup of water
1.5 cups of cornflour
Food colouring

 Place the cornflour and water in a bowl and mix to a smooth consistency.
I like to divide my mixture between small paint pottles (purchased from most dollar value stores) and mix in different food colouring to each pottle. Another idea is to use a non-stick muffin tin or clean empty yoghurt pots.

This paint is great used with sponge sticks or thicker paint brushes on the footpath.  It will always come out a lighter shade on the concrete than in the pottle and easily washes away if your kids tend to draw questionable looking objects.


Gloop
1 cup of water
2 cups of cornflour
Food colouring

Place the cornflour in a bowl, slowly mix in cold water until smooth then add food colouring. Then run.



 Playdough
1.5 cups of salt
1.5 TBSP of cooking oil
3 TSP of cream of tartar (if you’re like me and don’t know what the heck this is, you can use 3 TSP of white vinegar or lemon juice instead)
Food colouring
3 cups of flour
3 cups of boiling water


Mix everything together except the water. When reasonably mixed, slowly add the boiling water. Mix together until there are no crumbly bits. If too sticky, add more flour. Knead on a clean, floured surface. From experience, if this gets into your carpet, walk away, grab a wine, let it dry then pick it out. Give up - you'll be finding dry bits for weeks.

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