moon sand

The second pinterest project we tried was Moon Sand. This is just baby oil and flour. Again, two easy ingredients. The recipe calls for a specific ratio, but just like the 2-ingredient play doh, we just kept playing with it. 

Nellie had broken her arm a few weeks before she arrived which meant she couldn't swim or jump on the trampoline, and this project in particular was sort of our special time together. She told me what she though the bowl needed more of and eventually she wanted to make it into dough with lots and lots of baby oil. And then we went back to sand and added lots and lots of flour. The actual mixing and making of Moon Sand turned out to be the fun of this stuff. I suppose we could have built a castle at one point, as it turns into wet sand, but mostly we just talked for an hour and added more of something to the bowl.

This was also the day that we went to a family friend's pool. Nellie was so good about keeping her arm out of the water. She was allowed to go in three steps and she did great. Mostly she played with Elsie and was so good and sweet to her. I love that about cousins and how the bigger ones take such good care of the little ones. And it's so fun to watch the once "little cousins" become the big ones.