Welcome to Jenn's Bakery ^^

It's another pretend play, please welcome to Jenn's bakery. The cakes are homemade and decorated by Jenn, enjoy! 

This activity improves their fine motor control, hand and eye coordination and also creativity. This activity involves small item: waterbeads, please make sure to keep an eye on them and never leave them unattended while doing this activity.
If you don't feel at ease, please don't do this activity with your toddler.

What you need:

• DIY Playdough (here is the recipe)
• Cupcake papers
• Waterbeads
• Plates
• Tong

How to do:

1. Make the DIY playdough as instructed at the recipe
2. Shape them into cakes
3. Decorate the cake with waterbeads
4. Serve the cake with tong

SUN-shine

After everyone was down couple of days ago, now mommy was down too with fever! But I can't wait to make this sun activity for Jenn. 

What you need:
Cardboard (thick!)
DIY Edible Paint
Origami Paper
Scissor
Scotch Tape
Marker pen

Firstly, I let her paint on a thick cardboard with DIY edible paint. She may use her finger, cotton buds or anything that she wants. Then you have to wait until it gets dry. 

You may cut some origami papers while waiting for the painting. I used red, orange and yellow colors to stick on the sun.

Once the painting dries, cut a big circle and you may start sticking on origami papers on the circle's edges with scotch tape. I added smiley face to make it cute!

Jenn didn't finish her job, mommy have to do most of it. We may give it another try next time! 

DIY Edible Cloud Dough

Firstly, I would really say sorry for postponing the activity posts for a long time, Jenn was down with fever, followed with the rest of the family, and I had to take care of them. Thanks God they recovered now and I get the smiles on the faces back!

I've always wanted to bring Jenn to a beach, let her feel the sand on her tiny feet and play with water. But it's not easy to take her there since we're staying in a metropolitan city full of buildings. Here is an option to introduce her to sand, I made an edible cloud dough for her to play.

Recipe:

• Flour
• Cooking oil (I used olive oil this time)

You may change the cooking oil with baby oil too, but it's not gonna be edible for them!

All you have to do is take some flour, add up some oil, make sure you drop it slowly, or else it will be too sticky. Add up the oil until you get the texture, where you can use it to mold.

I added up some underwater creatures, eg: seahorse, fish, crab, turtle and shell. Let her sense the texture, mold it with the toys and have a lot of fun!

Edible Dough

I'm sure every kids love to play dough, this is how to make your own play dough, without harming ingredients!

Ingredient:

• Water
• Flour
• Corn starch
• Food coloring

The ratio for this recipe is flour:corn starch = 2:1

1. Mix 2 tbsp flour with 1 tbsp corn starch. 
2. Add up a very little bit of water and mix well, keep on adding the water until you get the texture.
3. Add up food coloring and mix well.

I made small amounts of dough with couple of colors.

Special thanks to Sirly for the recipe! 

Learning Alphabet "B"

Continue learning the alphabets, here come the letter B activity.
We're gonna paint a bear with edible paint, this is recipe to make edible paint.
I had red, yellow and green paint for her to mess around with.

You will need:
Paper with drawings on
Edible paints
Q-tips

I ask her to spell the word BEAR, then let her paint the bear.
Jenn enjoys painting her bear, look at that happy face when she do the activity!

This is another simple activity for her, coloring the letter "B" and a ball. 

Happy Learning! =)

Simple Painting Activity

Recently, I shared a post of how to make an Edible Paint for your toddler. I prefer edible paint, because it's safer for them to play around with. Love this painting idea, you should give it a try!

You will need:

• Edible paints
• Thick paper
• Q-tips

Drop lumps of paints on the paper. I had couple of different colors, just to make it more attractive.

Let them make mess on it, Jenn is so excited about this!

And this is the result!

Show me yours! =)

DIY Bunny Snack Cover

Are you ready for another RABBIT craft? Yessss, Jenn is sooooo crazy about rabbits!

This time we wanna give a snack for Jenn's godmom with a very cute decoration on it, hope she like it and you guys like it too!

These are what you need:
Origami paper
Paper 
Scissor
Glue
Scotch tape
Snack

If you wanna have the paper with paints on like we do, you may follow the steps on DIY Upcycle Pencil Holder

Take out the snack cover gently and draw the shape on the painted paper.
Cut the shape out and stick it on the snack, and cut some more for the ears.

Stick it on the snack, we secure it with scotch tape at the end.

Add up some decoration, we made eyes, smiling mouth with rabbit teeth and a ribbon.

And it's done!