What is this? Well, it's not food.

For Princess' toddler class, you have to do a "special project" which is to clean something or buy something (like a crate of diaper wipes, or the special cups they use in the classes, etc.) or make something. And I went with making something. This is supposed to be purple Play-Doh, the cooked recipe. I volunteered for this because purple was Princess' favorite color, and I chose to do Play-Doh because I did it for Bub when he was about this age and I thought Princess might like to watch too. She did.

However, while I burned Bub's blue Play-Doh, Princess' Play-Doh did not turn out much better. For starters, I was out of flour. So I substituted corn starch for the flour. I also forgot to add the dye to the water, adding to the mixture as an afterthought. And I added a packet or two of grape-flavored Kool-Aid for the fake-grape scent. But it had turned blue, so I ended up adding a lot of red food coloring to turn the blue-grey blob into a dark purple-grey blob. Also, the color was kind of sitting on top. I kept stirring (before I put it on the stove) in the hopes of making sure I had no dry spots. And as soon as it started pulling away from the sides I turned the heat off. That seemed to help, and it got more and more purple as I stirred. And luckily, this time I didn't burn the Play-Doh.