This two ingredient easy and edible frosting play dough recipe is amazing! You know what the best part is? It’s really tasty! In fact, it’s so delicious that your kids will be absolutely drooling over it while you mix it up!

Did you make these adorable graham cracker pencils? If so, the leftover frosting is just what you need for this simple to make and fun play dough!

Leftover Frosting from the Adorable Graham Cracker Pencil Snacks

I had put the frosting in the refrigerator at school for a couple of days and just knew I had to find something to do with all of that leftover frosting… I mean if I didn’t then where exactly do you think it would end up? The idea crossed my mind that mixing the frosting with flour would make a play dough type manipulative. A quick search on Pinterest showed me that you can mix frosting with powdered sugar to make a delicious EDIBLE and super easy frosting play dough!

2 Ingredients for Easy Frosting Play Dough

Hopefully you have some frosting left from the graham cracker pencils, if not then here is a quick list of what you will need!

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• Pink Whipped Frosting (Of course, any color or flavor will work!)
• Powdered Sugar
• (Just kidding with this bullet! I mean, you really only need those 2 ingredients! How easy is this?!?!)

These were the 2 frostings I had left from the graham cracker pencils. Either works fine although I prefer the pink whipped. You can also see my container of powdered sugar above.

Process for Making Easy Frosting Play Dough

All you have to do is dump your leftover (or entire can) of frosting into a bowl. Add powdered sugar until you get the consistency you desire. I could stir for a bit with a wooden spoon but soon needed to use my fingers.

This is the consistency you are looking for. When it’s no longer sticking to your fingers, you are golden! My students were sitting around me in a circle and just begging to try some!

Doesn’t this just make you want to try it? I demonstrated how to roll the play dough into a ball, form various letters, and shapes.

Time to Practice Letter & Shape Formations

We made this during the first week of kindergarten so there was a little lesson about how we don’t throw the play dough and how to clean it up.

And then it was time to head outside! I gave each student a paper plate and a handful. I asked them to form letters and then try some as they pleased. I did make sure to warn them not to eat too much or they would have a tummy ache!

You can see that they got busy practicing letter formation.

You should have heard the giggles as they tried bites of their play dough!

After I gave them the go ahead, the students LOVED making snowmen. We made these in August but snowmen are always a hit!

Can you believe that this is made out of just 2 EDIBLE ingredients?

What do you think? Will you try this easy frosting play dough recipe with your children? Let me know how it goes!

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Happy Teaching & Mommy-ing this week Friends!

Phew! It seems like January and February are so busy! I like to discuss Dental Health Month with my students. We kick that off with our study of the Tooth Fairy & El Ráton Pérez. If you haven’t had a chance to read my most recent blog post about that unit – make sure you do!

Of course, we are trying to get to Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day and just wrapped up a unit all about MLK Jr. We also just finished our 100th Day of School celebration. Busy! Busy!

I wanted to share some tips for making your Valentine’s celebration run as smoothly as possible and tell you about a couple of new FREEBIES in my store and a new product that I’m super excited about! Make sure to read the entire post so you can see the FREE CVC, CCVC, & Rhyming game I’m sharing with you today!

First up is a parent letter. After many years in Kindergarten, I’ve decided that THIS is the best way to celebrate Valentine’s Day with your kids and continue on addressing standards as needed. I’ve included color or black & white options as well as a couple of options for you to use depending on whether or not your want your students to bring in a mailbox from home. You can grab the free letters by clicking on the resource below! (Also as a side note, if you enjoy using a FREEBIE from my store, please take just a minute leave feedback. It just takes a second but helps me know if I need to continue making FREEBIES for you!)

We made these lovely heart wands using pipe cleaners and beads that I had on hand. I’ve seen them done with pony beads too. I had smaller beads which just meant that the kids got some extra fine-motor practice. I know some teachers shape the hearts for their students before-hand. I demonstrate how to create one heart for the class then set an example at my station. I think this gives them a chance to really try one for themselves.

Those were so simple and fun! We also had tons of fun with our Valentine centers! I have a HUGE pack of Valentine centers that you can use all during the month of February to work on syllables, CVC words, rhyming, addition, greater than/less than, and so much more! You can click on the product cover below to find the resource on TPT.

Our favorite center from the pack is this Valentine Fairies one where students “shoot” their arrows at the correct heart target depending on how many syllables are in the word. The kids LOVE this one. The best thing about this resource is that EVERY center comes with extension activities that will keep early-finishers engaged giving you more time to meet with your small groups!

Students love this rhyming words center where they are putting the puzzles together if they rhyme. If they finish before the allotted time is up, they simply begin to write rhyming words on the printable included. Rhyming is such an important skill for kindergarten but it can be so challenging for my students, especially my ESL learners. I love having any new activities to work on this skill with them and the Valentine’s theme really kept them engaged.

This Tally Marks and Ten Frames Memory Game was a hit with my kids. They LOVED that they could play it by searching for 2 cards or 3 cards at a time. (They called it a set instead of simply a match.) The included printable really gave them the practice they needed writing out tally marks to correspond to a given number. They are always wanting to make a cross over the marks even when they haven’t reached the fifth tally yet!

Clip cards are always a great way to get some sneaky fine-motor practice in and the kids had so much fun with these Honey Bear Clip Cards. The counters really helped keep them motivated to solve the equations.

Next up we worked on Greater Than & Less Than concepts using the “chomping” gator. In TN we are required to submit a lengthy portfolio to demonstrate how much our students have learned each year and this is one of the standards that we will be addressing. I really enjoyed sitting on the floor with them while they worked on this little game so I could hear how they are progressing with this skill. It’s a tough one for 5 year-olds!

As I mentioned, this is just a few of the games you will find in the resource. There are actually 10 centers included. My kids loved the writing centers too. Click on any of the above photos to head over to TPT and see what all you can use in your classroom. I love that mine are now printed on cardstock (or laminated if you prefer) and ready for me to pull out EVERY year!

Have you ever made heart kites with your kids? So much fun and so simple to do using paper that you already have in your classroom. I just tell my students to make 2 chains and then connect them. I write several fact families on the board that they can write on the big heart or I let them challenge themselves with bigger numbers if they please. As you can see, some students really go above and beyond!

I love how they look in the hall. Anything with that 3-D aspect gets all the heart eyes from me! While we are discussing Valentine’s Day, can I show you the ridiculous Valentine boxes Dustin and I created for the girls? 🙂

I made the mistake of letting them scroll through Pinterest & pick anything they wanted and they chose Unicorn Sisters. We will never forget the time and effort we put into these! 🙂 We really got a kick out of them when we lined them up next to the others. They were way over the top but the girls were so proud of them and I guess that’s what matters.

Let me be clear that the girls did “help” by painting the horns, wings, ears, etc but if you are thinking of tackling these for your children, be sure you understand that you may end up doing the majority of the work!

I had ordered a heart sweatshirt & when the girls saw mine, they HAD to have a matching one with Mommy!

I always buy them big so we can get 2 uses out of them!

(They really loved that you could make a heart “hole” too!)

I promised you another FREEBIE and I’m telling you it was worth hanging on until the end for! I hope your kids LOVE this Valentine Candy Hunt game! My kids beg me to play it over and over again with them and I know yours will too!

Click on the cover above to head over to TPT to download it for free!

Happy Valentine’s Day friends!

ESL learners, preschool, and kindergarten students will love learning all about the Tooth Fairy and El Raton Perez with this exciting unit! Find easy ideas to incorporate STEM and costume fun while learning all about these sweet traditions!

Have you ever hear of El Ráton Pérez? In most European countries and in Latin America, HE is the one who takes the child’s tooth from under the pillow. He is a little mouse and is saving the teeth to build a rocket ship to reach the moon made out of cheese. 🙂

With 8 ESL students in my classroom, I thought a unit focused on both the Tooth Fairy and El Ráton Pérez would be a hit. It certainly was!

I began by reading them The Tooth Fairy Meets El Ráton Pérez written by Rene Colato Lainez and illustrated by Tom Lintern. I LOVE this book and so do my students. They really giggled away when I tried to say the Spanish words that are included in the book. I highly recommend this book to you if you have Spanish-speaking students in your classroom. You can click on the picture below to see it on Amazon. (This is an affiliate link but no extra cost to you!)

The book tells the story about a little Mexican-American boy who loses his tooth. Both the Tooth Fairy and El Ráton Pérez arrive to collect the tooth. A little argument ensues with an adorable resolution.

I have created a resource on TPT that goes along perfectly with the book. It does stand alone if you have no interest in buying the book but it also makes a great companion to the story. This unit was a MAJOR hit with my kids and coincided perfectly with Dental Health month which we celebrate in February.

You can head over to my TPT store to see more of what’s included by clicking on the product cover above. In this blog post, I want to show you a first hand look of everything we did in our classroom!

After reading the book, I asked if any students had a wiggly tooth. Several of the students raised their hands and I said excitedly, “That means El Ráton Pérez’s door has probably appeared!” I explained that sometimes his door magically appears in our classroom when a student has a loose tooth.

I asked the kids to help me hunt for it and this little set-up was waiting in a corner of the classroom. I know, I know! This is totally unnecessary so don’t feel pressured to make anything like this but it was so fun for me to go shopping for dollhouse accessories that would work! It really kicked off our unit in a fun way and my students were THRILLED to find his door sitting there. Every now and then when they weren’t in the room, I would move the toothbrush or the bicycle and they had so much fun checking to see if their little mouse had been out of his door lately!

We completed a STEM activity where students made and executed a plan to build a door that opens and closes. I wanted them to each have one to take home so that they could have a door set up in their rooms so instead of working in partners like we usually do, the students each created his or her own door.

Let me share some of the finished projects with you! Remember this is kindergarten! While the goal was to build a door that would open & close, we celebrated any of the students who built a door for El Ráton Pérez!

As you can see, the child above had a different idea of how to build the door. The other children were quite jealous of his creation and started trying to imitate it.

I made the one above. If you taped the ends of the pipe cleaners to the wall, you can see how the door would open and close. I didn’t show this to students and some of them came up with this on their own!

Aren’t they precious? The resource includes a letter explanation for parents. I wanted to be sure that when the students came home with their doors, that the parents knew just what to say to them. I even encouraged the parents to play along by leaving a note from the Tooth Fairy & El Ráton Pérez!

You can see a little different approach above too!

I thought this one was rather clever! She showed me how her door would open and close using the paper as a flap.

Isn’t this adorable? Later I saw this same little girl checking to see if her door would work outside.

The kids LOVED “painting” large teeth with toothbrushes.

These looked so cute in the hallway next to our El Ráton Pérez assistant applications! (I’ll show you those in a minute.)

Isn’t his smile the sweetest? It makes my day when I see it!

So much fun and the perfect time to talk about the correct way to brush your teeth!

I’ll quickly show you a few more things we were able to do with the unit. There are so many activities, its hard to show you all of them!

I let the kids use photo props when they lost a tooth.

We compared the Tooth Fairy and El Ráton Pérez. This colored example is included in the resource!

And I created the cutest “lost tooth” bags so when students lose a tooth, I finally have a place to keep them and send them home easily instead of frantically searching for something!

I loved this next activity! I let the girls work on making wands and crowns out of construction paper while I met with the boys to help them fill out El Ráton Pérez assistant applications. Later we switched and the boys worked on their headbands while the girls filled out applications to be the Tooth Fairy’s assistants. They LOVED this writing activity! I raided my daughters’ dress-up trunk and came up with enough tutus for the girls. You will find the applications, headbands, and teeth necklaces/badges in the resource. They had so much fun dressing up one day!

My little tooth fairies above and my little mice below!

You will find some super cute math activities and a mouse feelings memory game!

See what I mean about there being too much for me to show it all to you? Other things you will find in the resource include word wall cards, more writing prompts, individual books, a variety of class books, and so much more. I hope your students LOVE this unit as much as mine did!

Happy Teaching & Mommy-ing this week sweet friends!