Of free zoo entry tickets and play doughs...

Kelloggs is offering a buy one free one entry ticket to any participating zoos in Australia. The Zoo Entry Voucher comes from the specially marked pack of Kellogg's cereal or snack pack (as shown in photo below) and the offer commences on 19th Oct 2009 and closes 31st Dec 2009. For Vic the participating Zoos are Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Open Range Zoo and Healsville Sanctuary. We are considering bringing the little one to the Healsville Sanctuary instead as we visited the Melbourne Zoo in early April. A good deal whichever zoo to visit.

Special marked pack

Had some time to spare after dinner and decided to make some play dough.  I've always preferred the homemade dough in playgroup cos it is less sticky and softer to mould but have been putting it off for some time. Thought it would be time consuming and a tub of PlayDoh costs only like $2 or $3. Turned out it only took 5 min to make quite a chunk of dough. Made it in two different colours in 15 min tops! The recipe can be found on the label from a bottle of McKenzie's Cream of Tartar (sold for just over $2 from Coles) but I'll list it down anyhow and this is the reduced portion as I wanted to make the doughs in different colours.

Recipe to make play dough:

1 cup plain flour

2 tbsp McKenzie's Cream of Tartar

2 tbsp cooking oil

1/2 cup salt

food colouring

1 cup water

Mix all the ingredients in a saucepan, stir over medium heat for 3-5 min or until the mixture congeals.

The doughs

If kept promptly after use in a tight container it should last for quite a while