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to make with
kids.
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in!
Happy
Putty
1 cup
cornstarch
1 cup
salt
1 1/2 cups
flour
1/2 cup water (add more if
needed)
Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl. Slowly add water and mix
with
your hands until you get putty. Store in a zip-lock bag in the
fridge.
Glack
This is so fun to make! Just like the Nickelodeon "Gak"....try to
use
glass bowls so the kids can see the chemical reaction. Great
science
project for a
classroom.
Solution 1: 1 1/2 cups warm
water
2 cups Elmers white
glue
desired food
coloring
Solution 2: 4 tsp. borax (you'll find this under the name 20 Mule
Team
in the laundry aisle at the grocery
store)
1 1/3 cups warm
water
Directions: Mix solution 1 in bowl until well
mixed.
Mix solution 2 in a glass bowl until dissolved.
Pour
solution 1 into solution 2; DON'T STIR, just pour
in.
Lift out the glack and store in zip-lock bag.
Bubbles
1 cup
water
2 Tbs. glycerin or light Karo
syrup
4 Tbs. dishwashing
liquid
Mix in a container and stir gently.......let settle for a
few
hours......the longer homemade bubble solution sits, the
better
the bubbles.
Sand
Castles
Mix a batch of this fun dough up on a yucky day and let
the
kids pretend they're at the beach. Let dry and you have
a
permanent sand
castle.
1 Cup
sand
1/2 cup
cornstarch
1 tsp. cream of
tartar
3/4 cup hot
water
Mix first 3 ingredients together in an old kettle. Add
hot
water and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly,
until
mixture is very thick and hard to stir. Remove from heat
and
let cool slightly and then form into shapes. When dry, you
can
decorate with paint. Store any leftover dough in an
airtight
container.
Puff
Dough
Kids can use this to form letters, numbers, etc. and paint
when
they
cool.
1 cup
flour
1 cup
water
1 bag of cotton
balls
Mix flour and water together and make a paste. Gently roll
the
cotton balls into the mixture and let excess drip off over
bowl.
Arrange the balls on a baking sheet into desired shapes and
bake
at 325 degrees for 1 hour.
The following recipes were submitted by Denise, :
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Play
Dough
1 1/2 cups cornstarch
1/2 cup flour
2
cups water
2 teaspoons cream of tarter
1 cup salt
1 tablespoon
vegetable oil
Mix all ingredients together and cook until it gathers
into a clump and forms a dough, about 6 minutes. Cool and kneed in
coloring. Store in zip lock bags.
Rainbow Finger Paints
1/2 cup
water
1 tablespoon cornstarch
6-7 drops of food coloring
Cook
over medium-high heat until thick. Cool 10 minutes and stir before
painting. You can also use vanilla pudding that you color.
:)
Coal
Crystals
6 tablespoons salt
6 tablespoons
laundry bluing
6 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon ammonia
food
coloring
coal lumps
Place the coal in the bottom of a shallow bowl
or pie plate. Combine all ingredients except for the food
coloring. Pour over the coal. Add a few drops of different
food coloring over the mixture. Leave stand a few hours and you
will see the crystals begin to form. They will continue to 'grow'
over the next few days.
Applesauce/Cinnamon Clay
1 cup ground
cinnamon
3/4 cup applesauce
Mix together until a stiff dough is
formed. Roll out into 1/4 inch thickness. cut out shapes
with a cookie cutters. Make a hole in the top with a straw.
Air dry several days on a wire rack, turn ornament occasionally.
These smell lovely and are very pretty! I put them on a rag
garland with red beads in between. These make great car air
fresheners!
Fruit
Clay
package of sugar free Jell-O
2 cups
flour
1 cup salt
4 tablespoons cream of tarter
2 cups boiling
water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Mix the dry ingredients in a
saucepan. Add the boiling water and the vegetable oil. Cook
over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until mixture forms a
ball. Place the ball on wax paper to cool. Store in Ziploc
baggies. You can use different flavors to make all kinds of
'fruit' for their artwork.
Nature Walk Wreaths
"Your post reminded me
of something else I've done with
the kids...go for that 'nature' walk
but pick things
up to make wreaths; pine cones, dried berries,
seed
pods, different kinds of pine boughs, etc. These can
be
wired onto a wire wreath frame or hot-glued onto a
straw or
stryrofoam wreath. Other cool things for
wreaths are nuts
(bundle them up in a bunch of
tulle/netting and tie them on in
bunchs). Make
pinecone roses out of the big long cones (twist
them
in half). Oh, almost forgot...don't forget to bake
any
of your pine cones that you find. Putting them
into a 200° oven
for a few hours will open them up and
keep them from reclosing. "