Spring Break Fun for Kids: Edible playdough!

Are you looking for fun, budget-friendly ways to entertain your kids during spring break before the boredom sets in? How about making edible playdough? Your kids can help make it and if they eat it, no worries!  I have ingredients for most of these recipes already in my stockpile!

Here are some fun edible playdough recipes from across the blogosphere:

Peanut Butter Playdough – This recipe from “Make and Takes” is a personal favorite for me because I love peanut butter and so do my kids!  All you need is peanut butter, honey, and powdered sugar.  These are three things we have on hand already – yay!

Kool Aid Playdough – This recipe is from DLTK kids and is a great way to use up some of those Kool Aid packets.  The colors are great, too!  All you need for this recipe is flour, salt, a Kool Aid packet, water, and vegetable oil!

Marshmallow Playdough – This recipe from The Paisley Cupcake combines two favorites (marshmallows and peanut butter) and I’m not sure we’d even make it to the playdough stage while making it!!  All you need is large marshmallows, a spoon, peanut butter, and wet wipes for clean-up!

Last, but certain not least – how about some CHOCOLATE PlaydoughShabby Chic Crafts has a recipe for Chocolate Playdough.  All you need is flour, cocoa powder, salt, cream of tartar, oil, and water.  She even has some great suggestions for “dressing it up” to give away as gifts!

Which recipe are you and YOUR kids going to try out first?!

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Make your Spring Break a "Staycation" and buy a City Pass!

This year, we decided to make our Spring Break a “Staycation” and decided to spend the week doing fun things in our area. Whether you’re going out of town this year or staying home, the City Pass is a budget-friendly option to help you see several attractions!

How it works:
City Pass is a ticket booklet that contains admission tickets for five or six popular attractions in major cities at a heavily discounted rate (usually about 50% off regular admission prices!).  You can order your City Pass online here or you can purchase it at the ticket window of any of the attractions included within the City Pass.  If you order your City Pass online, you can print out your pass and activate it at the ticket window of any of the attractions that are included.  You will then receive a booklet with all of your tickets and from that point on, you can skip the lines and go right to the entry gate!  Once you activate the pass, you have nine days to use all of the tickets (14 days in southern Cailfornia).

Here are the participating cities:

-Atlanta
-Boston
-Chicago
-Hollywood
-Houston
-New York
-Philadelphia
-San Francisco
-Seattle
-Southern California (includes 3 day admission to Disneyland PLUS admission to Universal Studios, Sea World, and the San Diego Zoo or San Diego Safari Park)
-Toronto

I bought City Passes for my family yesterday and we spent our first day at the local zoo!  The children’s passes were $29 in my area and we saved over $20 by buying the City Pass.  The adult passes were $39 and we saved over $26 by buying the City Pass!

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