Food Tracks & Layered Playdough

Making tracks with trucks and tractors in Play Doh is nothing new in this house.

Instead of vehicles, today we tried food!

[play food]

Craters made from grapes!

Corn on the Cob made nice rows.

And a fork?

It makes for a great tool to tear it all up!

 While Henry was exploring the prints food can make,

I was dinking around creating Layered Play Doh Art!

[warning : if you have an OCD do not want colors to mix, do NOT do this!]

I started it...

but once Henry saw what I was doing

...he needed to finish it!

I gave him a chunk of Play Doh in the color he requested 

and he forced layered it on top,

smushing all the colors together.

 I thought this could be fun Art to keep around 

[I had a lid for the container we used, it wouldn't have dried out].

But where is the fun in that?

Let the excavating begin!

With his food tools at hand : Henry dug his way to the bottom.

Sometimes digging didn't work.

Maybe it could pour out?

Henry hauled his findings to me.

[Using a dump truck, of course]

This is where I sat...

nit-picking at the colors, trying to divide them back up...

Some colors got a new hue.

The orange is now slightly grayed.

The green has an eerily dark hue to it.

Others...

 ... had no hope of being divided.

[though very pretty!]

 The ball became Henry's to do as he pleased. 

At least its fitting for it to be a field.
[did I mention that Play Doh held Henry's attention for the entire day today?We did the above activity for about 3 hours in the morning - after nap, it continued until supper!]

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