*Making Flubber*

**Let me first say, this is my 300th post on my Blog! Would like to thank all the ones that have kept coming back to see what we are up to and thank you to all the new visitors! :-) 

Now, we are moving right along with our Summer Activity List with a recipe for FLUBBER! 

You will need: 

3/4 cup cold water

1 cup Elmer’s glue

liquid food coloring

1/2 cup hot water

1 teaspoon borax (you can find this in a box in the laundry aisle)

directions:

step 1: in bowl 1 – mix together the cold water, glue, and food coloring. set aside.

step 2: in bowl 2 – mix together the hot water and borax, until the borax is completely dissolved.

step 3: slowly add glue mixture to borax mixture. mix well. pour off excess water.

Keep "kneading" the mixture until it is smooth and workable(its very wet at first) 

The kids used their play-dough toys with this cutters, scissors,etc... They stretched and pulled and tore, then put it all back in a ball. They had a blast with it! 

We even took it with us when we went on our picnic! 

Make it with your kids soon! It's so easy to put together and just simple, fun play for kids! 

And don't forget...the movie!! :-) 

Pipe Cleaners and a Colander

As much as I love playing with my kids and doing activities with them,I still have to get my house clean sometimes. Otherwise Big Daddy starts talking about trading me in for a new "model" and stuff.

I am always on the lookout for things that Brother can do with little to no help.
This was a great 20 minute activity for my 3 year old to do while I got laundry sorted and started and Sissy got her laundry put up.

All you need is Pipe Cleaners and a colander! Very simple yet fun!

When I got everything out Brother decided that this was to be his hat!

As you can see it's as simple as sticking the pipe cleaners in the holes of the colander!

Great fun, and gives you time to make dinner, fold clothes,etc..
My 8 year old also liked doing this, although it obviously didn't hold her attention as long. :-)

Fluffy Bathtub Paint

After making our Ivory Soap Cloud I wanted to find something to do with all the soap, so I searched around on Pinterest and found THIS post on making Fluffy Bathtub Paint!

So we started with the soap cloud, cups,boiling water, and food coloring.

Added the soap cloud to the mixer then added the boiling water, about 1/2 tsp at a time, you aren't using very much here so just add a little at a time.

When it's done it will have the consistency of yogurt.

Distribute the mixture between the 4 cups and add 2 drops of coloring in each cup.

Add the mixture to Ziploc bags, then cut off the corner of the bag to make like a frosting bag.

Give them to the kid in the tub and let them create!

Afterwards there will be lots of "floaters"  it's just soap and it will go down the drain with the water.

Both my kids (8 and 3) loved painting in the tub!

*This recipe is not enough for both kids to have enough, so keep that in mind if you have more than one child!

Thanks Housing a Forest

Ivory Soap Cloud

I have had my eye on this project since Wendy posted about it on Wendolonia.

Ivory soap floats in water, the reason it does is because it has a bunch of air whipped into it. So when you microwave it, those air bubbles expand, thus making your "cloud". 

We started with a small piece, just to see what we were in for. Sissy thought it would melt...She was very surprised! 

 We put it in the microwave and did 30 second intervals(about 3 times)...after a few seconds the bar started to grow and fluff out. 

The soap looks so soft and fluffy, almost like clouds, but surprisingly, the soap was actually still hard, crumbly and flaky, not at all how it looks,it's not really hot but still be careful! 

The kids were very excited

 

They played with it for a few minutes, it gets very flaky after its handled a lot. 

After reading in the comments on Wendys site, I saw someone suggest adding food coloring, we had some more to do so we decided to try that too! 

Sissy loved this one too! I did add a few more drops of coloring around it in between the 30 second intervals. 

This will be one that we do again, as the kids were amazed at how this worked! 

**Come back tomorrow to see what we are going to do with the soap cloud. 

Play Dough Cars

My kids love to play with Play Dough, so when I saw THIS idea on Pinterest about recycling the caps from sauce packs we decided to try it out!

We pulled out the play dough box

They pulled out all the supplies they wanted to use

And we got busy!  

Start by making the body of the car and then add the wheels!It's that easy! 

I helped Brother make a "Lightning McQueen" car

Sissy decided she would rather just put the play dough around an actual car

Left is Lightning McQueen and Right is The King from "Cars"

This activity was lots of fun for the kids! This will be a great boredom buster! :-)