Yesterday for our Swimming Creatures class, we learned about sea urchins and sand dollars. So what would be more fun than making edible sea urchins and sand dollars.

We started with some homemade edible peanut butter playdough. We took about 2 cups of powdered sugar, 1 cup of peanut butter, and about 1/3 cup of honey. (All ingredients were not measured exactly and can be give or take.) We dumped them into a gallon sized ziplock bag and gently started squishing them together. Once the dough came together, we divided it into six portions with enough for about 2 more leftover. We had the kids roll their dough into a ball and then start putting pretzel sticks into the ball.. Once they were done, they had a sea urchin. Super easy! Then they ate it.

While they were eating, one of the older students made a sand dollar with some remaining dough and pretzels. That also turned out super cute.

The kids were thrilled to play with their food and make something fun and messy. They were even more excited that it tasted yummy.

Edible Peanut Butter Playdough

All ingredients are approximate and can be adjusted to taste, or if texture is too wet or too dry, and it can easily be measured by not so accurate children.

2 cups powdered sugar

1 cup peanut butter (we used Jif)

1/3 cup honey (we used local honey)

*Put all ingredients in a gallon sized ziplock bag.

*Gently mix until the ingredients come together as a dough. (Add more powdered sugar if too wet or more honey if too dry.)

Tastes great with pretzels:)