Playdough Hearts

This morning while the girls watched Cinderella 2 (thank you Netflix for carrying such a thing) I floated around the blgosphere checking the usual places (Frog Creek  and Ordinary Life Magic amongst others) and happened upon a fabulous idea on The Magic Onions.  She had posted about making playdough hearts,  and with Valentine's Day on the horizon it seemed like the perfect thing to do on a bitterly cold day where we were most definitely stuck in the house.

I chose to use the recipe for playdough she posted since she said that the hearts needed to be baked.  Her recipe is similar to the one we use already except that hers does not require the dough to be cooked on the stove.  While I was getting things together to make the dough, Grace appeared in the kitchen with something she drew for me on the magna doodle.  

And then Emma appeared wearing this:

Once the dough was made and the girls were dressed, we were ready to make some hearts.  I found some beautiful copper heart cookie cutters to use.  I totally forgot we had them and was super excited to rediscover them!

It took longer than expected to bake them.  

Thankfully they were ready to paint after naptime!

We had such a wonderful time making the hearts!  The are so charming and look adorable hanging in various spots around our house.  This was such a sweet and simple project and one that we will most certainly do again!

Sweet dreams, friends. 

We'll see you in the morning.