Lot's of Fun with Easy to Make Bubble Blobs!!

 

We had so much fun making Bubble Blobs, we did this for over an hour and continued even when it began to rain! This is so simple to do and it is a great way to use up those mate-less socks, which there always seems to be an abundance of in my house. All you need is an empty water bottle, a sock, some dish soap, food coloring (if desired), and a container.

 

 

Cut the bottom of the water bottle off.

 

Fit socks snuggly around the bottom. If needed, you can use a rubber band to hold the sock in place.

 

Pour some liquid dish soap into a shallow container and add water. Dip the bottom of the bottle into the soapy mixture and blow.

 

 

Remind your children to blow and not suck in! I kept reminding my little guy, meanwhile my 12 year old took a huge breath in and ended up with a mouth full of soap!

 

 

To make colored bubble snakes, add some food coloring directly onto the bottom of the sock. Dip and blow.

 

My kids really had fun with this, we will definitely be doing it again!

 

 

They even had fun playing with the blobs that hit the floor and throwing them up in the air.

 

Freeze Dough Ice Cream Pallor-- Keep Cool and Play!!

 

Let's Play!!! To set up your pretend ice cream stand, all you need is an ice cream scoop, some ice cream cones (I picked mine up in the dollar store), and some Freeze Dough!

Freeze Dough is basically frozen shaving cream in a container. We kept it simple and only made "vanilla ice cream" to play with, but you can easily add food coloring to the freeze dough to make different "flavors."

 

 

I gave him an ice cream scoop and some ice cream cones to play with and placed my order...

 

Before I knew it, my order was up, his hands were dirty, and he was nice and cool!

 

Next time, we are going to make a bunch of different "flavors" to play with!

 

Ant Free Sand Box-- Find Out How!!

A few weeks ago, I set up our little sand box. In past years, we had a problem with ants hanging out in the sand. Awhile back, I had read that cinnamon is a natural ant deterrent. I decided to try this theory out and add some cinnamon in with the sand. It worked! We have had an ant free sand box for over a month and the sand smells awesome! It is actually kind of funny, you can actually see the ants climb up the side of the sand box and retreat as soon as they smell the cinnamon! All I did was sprinkle cinnamon on the top of the sand and then mixed it in.

Easy, natural, smells great, and keeps the ants away!

Can't beat it!