Homemade Bouncy Balls
Great fun for the kiddos!!
2 cups
Measuring spoons
A stir stick
2 tbsp hot water
1/2 tsp borax
1 tbsp glue
1 tbsp corn starch
Food coloring (optional)
Pour the water and borax into the first cup and stir the mixture until it is dissolved.
Pour the glue, cornstarch and food coloring into the second cup and mix. Then add the mixture from the first cup into the second cup.
Let the ingredients sit for 15 seconds then stir.
Once the mixture becomes difficult to stir, scoop it out of the cup, and roll into a ball. Enjoy!!!
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Want to spend 5 minutes making something to occupy the kiddos for hours.....make some Flubber!
Kids love Flubber -- it's slimy without being sticky, it's silly
without being disgusting, and it holds its shape without drying out.
Best of all, you and and your kids can make it with simple household
materials
Before anyone asks, this recipe came from a preschool
YEARS ago and it calls for Borax - this is completely safe and VERY
different from Boric Acid - don't freak out!
What you 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.
Store in an airtight container and have some fun! Great rainy day project.
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For camping or late nights at the beach.....
Leave 1/4 of Mountain Dew in the bottle (just don't drink it all), add a tiny bit of baking soda and 3 caps of peroxide.
Put the lid on and shake......walla!
Homemade glow stick (bottle) solution. Super Cool!!!
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OMGoodness!!! How Adorable is This?!?!
SLEEPING TEDDY BEAR
Ingredients for assembly:
- Plain Omelet (blanket)
- Cooked Brown Rice (bear)
- 1 Sausage link (body)
Instructions:
Step 1- Mold warm rice into balls. Two small balls for the ears and one
larger one for the head. You can also mold an arm if desired. For
snout, you can use either white rice or a small piece of mozzarella
cheese.
Step 2- Cook your sausage link. Once fully cooked, place sausage under Teddy bear rice head.
Step 3- Cook up omelet. Once done to satisfaction, gently lay atop
sausage up to the “neck”. You can also use a piece of the omelet for
the egg.
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DIY
weather-proof stepping stones!
1/2 cup salt,
1/2 cup flour and
about
1/4 cup water (I used a little more, about 3/8 cup)
knead it (roll in
ball and flatten out repeatedly) until it is all held together, flatten
it out (can make one big one, two medium ones or three small ones),
push your LO's foot onto it and pop in the oven at 200 degrees for three
hours.
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CREATE YOUR OWN STEPPING STONE WITH A CAKE PAN!
(lots of steps, but super easy)
I'm so doing this for my backyard!!!!!
Garden Stepping Stone
(from Intimate Weddings)
You will need:
Round non-stick cake pan (You could also use a heart-shaped pan)
Vaseline
Contact paper
Old plates or saucers that you don’t need (I got mine at the thrift store)
Glass gems
sea glass (optional)
concrete
marine varnish
Mosaic Glass Cutter (Optional. I did not use one of these, but if you want more precise cuts, this is the way to go.)
chicken wire or other type of wire mesh
safety glasses
rubber gloves
dust mask
hammer
bucket
trowel
water
Put your safety glasses on. Place a plate or saucer inside a cloth bag
or cover with an old sheet or towel, and smash it with a hammer. If you
have a mosaic glass cutter, use it instead. Repeat until you have all
the pieces you need. You’ll probably want a variety of sizes.
Place your cake pan on your contact paper, and trace around it.
Cut out the contact paper circle. Remove backing and place inside pan
sticky side up. Add your mosaic pieces to the contact paper with the
desired design facing down. Press each piece down so it is firmly stuck
to the contact paper. Leave enough space between the pieces so that the
cement can fill the spaces in between – but don’t leave too much room.
(When I make my next stepping stone, I will move the pieces a bit closer
together.) Carefully lift the piece of contact paper and view your
design.
If you are happy with your design, place the design
back into the pan with the sticky side up. Head outdoors, put on your
dust mask and mix up your concrete according to the instructions on the
bag. It will be the consistency of porridge when it’s ready.
Meantime, cut a square piece of chicken wire or wire mesh to fit inside
the stepping stone. This will help to support it. Also, line the inside
rim of your cake pan with Vaseline for easy releasing.
Don your
rubber gloves and spoon some concrete into your cake pan. Spread so it
evenly covers your design, about an inch thick. Place your piece of wire
mesh onto the wet concrete. Spread another one inch layer of concrete
over the wire.
Let sit for two days. (I set mine in the shed.)
When it’s ready, turn it over and tap on the back of the cake pan. It
should release easily. Slowly remove contact paper.
If there
are holes, you can fill them with cement. You can use sand paper to
smooth grooves in the cement. I took a wet sponge and cleaned the entire
area after removing the contact paper, then I varnished it with marine
varnish.
That’s it! Enjoy your handmade stepping stone!
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