Flubber

I picked up some borax the other day, because I remembered making Flubber back in the day with kids! So today we created some blue flubber.

The boys had fun mixing ingredients!

It felt so cool too!

This is the recipe we used..

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Flubber-With-Borax-and-Glue


Warning: wear old clothes-- does not come out that well!

Playdoh Set

Connor received some late Christmas gifts from his Nonna today. One of them was a full on playdoh set! We had so much fun with all the cool new playdoh tools!

I found the set on amazon! I would recommend it!

We even pulled it out again this evening! Todd made our little (growing) family out of playdoh and included soon to be baby Logan!

Homemade playdoh

Since Connor and the other kids I have this week are young ones, I wanted to make my own play-doh in case they wanted a "taste." I found this recipe online, and decided to give it a try! I used orange food coloring since it seems like an appropriate color for October :D The website I found it from is called http://www.playdoughrecipe.com. They have some great ideas! I will definitely be trying a few more!

The taste is very salty! I wouldn't to eat it! It was very easy to make, and the kids enjoyed playing with it. I found some old wooden letters I had laying around, and we used them to stick into the play-doh!

Great for learning colors, letter recognition, creative play and fine motor skills. Play-doh is great for a lot of things! I remember one time having a conversation with another teacher. I always kept play-doh in my art center, she kept them in her manipulative center. Both are great places to keep play-doh! It is also used by therapists in therapy. Especially occupational therapy to strengthen fine motor skills. It is also relaxing to just move the dough around in your hands! Gotta love play-doh!

Cream of Tarter Playdough Recipe

Ingredients:
2 cups of plain flour
2 cups of coloured water
1 Tbsp. of cooking oil
1 tsp. cream of tartar
1 cup of salt

Place all of the ingredients in a medium size or large pan. Cook slowly on medium-high and stir it until the playdough thickens. Keeps best in the fridge in plastic containers. This is simular to the traditional playdough recipe.

This recipe takes less than 10 minutes.