Vala's Pumpkin Patch Filed under ( Friends, Preschool )

I am a TEXAS girl and I mention often about growing up in East Texas. I love TEXAS but I never experienced a pumpkin patch. Typically, a pumpkin patch in Texas is in a church parking lot. Well, one thing I love about Omaha is FALL. We usually have an amazing FALL. Today, I went with my preschool class and their families to Vala's Pumpkin Patch here in Omaha. What a FALL treat! The weather was amazing and of course, I especially love all of the food - kettle korn, chili bowl, turkey legs, funnel cakes, sweet potato fries, warm chocolate chip cookies, caramel apples and that just to name a few. I only had kettle korn today and okay.... a few warm chocolate chip cookies.. bite size of course. I loved sharing my kettle korn with my sweet little friends today.

Cowboy Jack!


Miss Susan And Jack



Mia and Aden



Crazy, fun GUY and his friend



sweet twins - Callie and Carys

Pumpkin Playdough Filed under ( playdough, Preschool )

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I teach 3 year old preschool. This is my 9th year and I love it. The children really enjoying playing with homemade playdough. We are going to enjoy Pumpkin playdough this next week - just before going to the Pumpkin Patch.

Pumpkin Playdough

Place in a medium size pan -

1 cup water
1 Tbsp. oil

Mix together and add:

1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tsp. Cream of Tartar
2 tsp. Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 tsp. cinnamon

Add the dry ingredients to the liquid in the pan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture holds together and pulls away from the side of the pan. Spoon out onto counter and knead for about one minute. I sprinkled a little flour on my counter - knead in with the playdough until just right texture. Allow to cool and quickly store in an airtight container so not to dry out.

**I 5x this recipe for my preschool class. This is great for making at home too. My girls loved it when they were little!

Sparkling Snow Play Dough Filed under ( playdough, Preschool )

As I have mentioned before, I teach preschool 4 mornings a week at my church. I have precious three year olds. We are talking about penguins, snow, ice and fun winter things this month. I made this play dough to start off our unit.

Sparkling Snow Play Dough

2 cups water
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
4 tsp. cream of tartar
4 tsp. oil
iridescent glitter

Combine all ingredients except the glitter in a large, heavy saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon; mixture will thicken and pull away from the sides of the pan. I keep stirring scraping the bottom - this mixture gets very thick and quick; Form the dough into a ball, place on wax paper; Allow to cool just a bit and knead in glitter.

*I added some clear vanilla extract to make it smell yummy!

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