Keychain

The boys found our key collection in the junk drawer. They were pretending to lock all the doors until I started looking at the keys and realized that some of those were spares to our vehicles. I also realized that we should really clean out the junk drawer. Instead of having the boys play with our keys we made their own keychains.

The boys rolled out play dough and used cookie cutters to make their favorite shapes. I put holes in the top to match the keyrings. I put the shapes on a wax paper on a baking sheet, and baked them for 4 hours at 200 degrees. Some cracked, but that was to be expected. I took the plastic snaps off of our silicone keychains that we got free when we bought our vehicles. I put them through the holes in the dried play dough and added the keyrings.

A rabbit keychain

We added the keychains to their school back packs and their keys. After some playing they cracked more and chipped. It might have worked better with homemade play dough or modeling clay. Air drying would also work better. The actual play dough is meant to prevent drying out and cracking. We will try again in the future.