Who Wants To Play with Flubber?

Today we watched the movie Flubber. Naturally, after the movie we had to make our very own Flubber! It was so easy to make, the kids made it in under 10 minutes! You have to try this, my kids had a blast with it-- I'm not going to lie, so did I!

 

To Make Flubber, You Will Need:

1 1/3 cups of very warm water

3 teaspoons of Borax

2 cups of white school glue, like Elmer's (4- 4oz bottles)

1 1/2 cups of very warm water

 

 

 

 

To make the Flubber, mix 1 1/3 cup of very warm water and the Borax in a bowl until the Borax completely dissolves. In another bowl, a large one, combine glue and 1 1/2 cups of very warm water and mix well. If you would like to color your Flubber, add a few drops of food coloring into one of the bowls. Add the bowl with the Borax into the bowl with the glue.  

 

You will see an immediate change in the consistency.

 

Mix until everything is combined and let it sit for few minutes before playing with it.

Have fun!!

Glowing Rainbow Rice



Lately, we are all about anything that glows! We LOVE our blacklight and put it to good use! We also enjoy Glow-in-the-dark play. We have made tons of colored rice for play, but today we made Glow Rice! The colors are very vibrant and it takes the rice sensory play to a whole new level! Glow Rice is simple to make and you can find almost everything you need in the dollar store. You have two options with this: If you use glow-in-the-dark paint, your rice will glow in the dark. Or, you can use neon/fluorescent paint and your rice will GLOW under a blacklight.  The paints can be found in Walmart and craft stores. We picked our blacklight up at Walmart for under $11.00.

You will need:
Rice

zip-lock bags

Neon/Fluorescent or glow in the dark paint

 Rubbing alcohol

Place the desired amount of rice for each color in a Ziploc bag.  Add about a tablespoon of the glowing paint of your choice and about one tablespoon of rubbing alcohol. The rubbing alcohol helps coat the rice, watering down the paint so you need less and helps the rice dry faster.  Seal the bag and then shake, knead, and mix until the rice is evenly coated.  Then lay the rice out to dry on a cookie sheet. I periodically "mix" the rice up to help it dry completely.  When the rice is dry and it is dark, get ready for some GLOWING fun!!

We added some glow in the dark stars for play.

The colors are so vibrant and pretty under the black light.

 

My son insisted we add the neon blue rice we made the other day to the rest of the rainbow glow rice. It looks awesome, huh?

 

 

 

Music Fun Sensory Tub

 

Our music sensory tub is set up and the house is anything but quiet!! It contains a bunch of different homemade instruments, including a popsicle stick harmonica, a straw flute, and a few egg shakers. There are some wooden instruments that I found in Target's Dollar Section, an inflatable microphone, a recorder and a tambourine.  I used beans for a filler. This tote is a fun and noisy one! LOL

Fun with Homemade Bubbles!!

We couldn't have asked for a nicer day today! We embraced the warm sunny day and spent the day and outside. We set up the sand box and made a huge mess! We also made some bubbles to blow.  The bubbles were very inexpensive to make and I had all of the ingredients on hand. From start to finish, I'd say we were blowing bubbles within 5 minutes or so! Can't beat that!

All you need is:
12 Cups of Warm Water
1 Cup of Dish Soap
1 Cup of Cornstarch
2 Tablespoons of Baking Powder

All you do is:
Mix all ingredients until all of the powdery ingredients are dissolved and get blowing!!

 

I stored the extra bubbles in a drink pitcher with a spout easy bubble refills!

A Rainy Day Band with Homemade Musical Instruments!!

We gathered all of our homemade musical instruments today and had a rainy day band! Our band was loud to say the least and was made up by a variety of musical instruments.

We had a popsicle stick harmonica, bells on a ring, straw flute, and egg shakers. We also had a set of wooden cymbals, some shakers, a drum, a den-den daiko drum (like the one from the Karate Kid) and a giaro (a Spanish instrument). All of these instruments are sure to end up in our Music Sensory Tub that we will be setting up in the next day or two.

30 Second Homemade Egg Shakers!

 

I made these egg shakers for our Rainy Day Band and to add to our Music Sensory Tub. All I did was take some leftover plastic Easter eggs (I love the animal print designs on these), put some beans in them, and glue them shut with glue gun. If you put different mediums and amounts of mediums, they all will sound a little bit different.

Joseph, Mary, and Baby Jesus Peg Family

 

 

We are working on creating a New Testament Sensory tub. Peg Joseph, Mary, and Baby Jesus are the newest addition to our tote. I plan on making the Three Wise Men, the Shepard, and possibly an angel as well. I will be sure to post the completed project.