Know the saying “Don’t play with your food”. We say “Go ahead and have fun!”
How do people come up with these ideas with food? I guess I never played enough with my food.
Stephanie at The Tip Toe Fairy shows us how to turn fresh Peeps
into play dough for the kids to play with. She uses the microwave to melt the Peeps and adds corn starch and canola oil to it. Then kneads the heck out of the Peeps till you get the right consistency.
So if you have a rainy day after Easter and there are possibly some Peeps left, bring the kids into the kitchen and make some play dough. Easy clean up, just eat it when you’re done playing!
This playdough play promotes Fine Motor Skill Development and is great for strengthening muscle tone in little hands and elderly hands too.
Did you know that Easter peeps were originally made by hand? Taking a total time of 26 hours to complete the full process (cooling time). Now it takes less than 6 minutes. The Peeps company now make over 5 million each Easter Peeps a day in a variety of shapes and colours. They also seem to come out for every occasion and season making them no longer a yellow chick for Easter.
Can you use an oil other than Canola? (as there is a high allergy to it in my family)
Heather, you can try. I went on to the original site that the idea came from using regular marshmallows and they made it with coconut oil. Here is the site http://mamapapabubba.com/2013/08/01/sweet-stretchy-edible-marshmallow-dough/. They actually make homemade marshmallow dough. Hope this helps.
Carolyn