Toi-Dough

So I’m sure you’re wondering, “What happened to all that toilet paper?”

This morning we used some of it to make toilet paper dough or, as Nate called it, Toi-Dough.

We put about 4-5 rolls worth of toilet paper into a big, shallow plastic bin. Then we grated Ivory soap into it - somewhere between 4-5 bars, in the end. The kids loved this part - I’d picked up graters at the dollar store so they each had their own. We only had a few small scrapes, and no real blood, so I think they did very well!

Leigh helped BabyGirl work on a bar of soap too.

After the soap was in there, we added about 1/4 cup of Borax powder for each bar of soap / roll of toilet paper. The kids each wanted to dump in their own scoopful. I slowly poured warm water over the mixture as they started smushing it together - this is the part that’s more art than science. I kept adding water until they seemed satisfied.

Then we played, and played, and played with our toi-dough. Leigh was brave enough to do some of the mixing, but quickly stepped back to let the rest of us play. We made mush-balls and mush-men and drew our fingers through it and passed it from hand to hand. It was warm and smushy and smelled great. Eventually, Nate and Emily decided they needed to test it with their feet.

After that, things got a little too wild and crazy, and the foot-stomping kids started flinging and tossing. We wound up with toi-dough on the cabinet, the wall, the ceiling… the hallway, the back patio door… in hair and all over clothes, and pretty much everywhere. JediBoy was more than done by then - he doesn’t like the foot-squishing part so much - and BabyGirl and Anna had both been more wary of the toi-dough from the beginning. But Nate and Em were in their messy, messy glory.