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Homemade Bubbles
Mix this up the day before you want to go out and blow bubbles. These bubbles are so good you won’t mind the wait.
What you need:
Empty half gallon milk container, Water, A measuring cup, Liquid dish detergent, Measuring spoons, Glycerin or corn syrup, Shallow bowl or disposable pie pan, Scissors and Bubble blower.
What you need to do:
Rinse out the milk container and fill it with water, then pour out 1/3 of a cup of water. Add 1/3 cup of liquid dish detergent and 2 tablespoons of Glycerin or Corn Syrup to the milk container. Close the container and turn it over a couple of times SLOWLY to mix it up. Don’t shake it! Let it sit for 24 hours. Then pour a great deal of of the mixture into a shoal bowl or disposable pie pan. Dip the bubble blower into the solution and blow. You’ll make nice thick bubbles that float for longer than the store purchased kind.
Try making your own bubble blower:
Chenille sticks (pipe cleaners) without apparent effort bend and twist into a hoop. Make heart shapes, moon shapes, experiment and find out what works and what doesn’t. Be resourceful and recycle objects. Cut a circle out of the container of a margarine lid, glue a stick to it for a handle and see how that Try the plastic ring from a canned soda six-pack.
Take it to the Next Level
These bubbles are so strong you may make them bounce. Yup, bounce.
What you need:
White cotton gloves available at most art or craft stores, 4 straws and a piece of sting (about 4 feet long). Thread the straws with the string end to end, and tie a knot where the stings meet, creating a square. Dip that square into the bubble solution and gently lift out. Hold it up and have a collaborator blow bubbles toward the trampoline and watch them bounce. Then try putting on the white cotton glove and let the bubble bounce off of your gloved hand. It may take a little exercise like the trampoline, but it works!
Magic Railroad
Little kids seem to be fascinated by trains, as evidenced by the popularity of such characters as Thomas the Tank Engine.
What you need:
Sidewalk chalk and a side walk.
What to do:
Bring your bucket of chalk outside and get every one involved making a railroad. Map out a railroad finish with stations, water towers, cities, villages, what ever your imagination wants to visit on this railroad. Add lakes, crossings, bridges, tunnels. Draw trees and flowers along side, roads for autos to cross.. Then when you’re finished, get every one on board and ride the Magic Railroad. Let them get off at their stations and let them play.
Paper Mural Kids
What you need:
Roll of huge paper (48inches high by 50 feet wide) Try Fadeless Paper Rolls available at Michaels and any online craft shop for in regards to $16, Crayons and or Markers (broad tips work best), masking tape
What to do:
Take the kids out to the park or to the backyard, with the roll of paper and the wide tip markers and crayons. Tape it up versus the building or lay it out on the hard ground. Have everyone pose in a very dramatic way versus the paper. The kids working with partners, take turns tracing each other. Then everyone fills in the details of their own faces, clothing, shoes, etc. The rough gritty cement of the building or ground brings about most interesting textures. They may turn it into a mural by adding images, words and whatsoever their imaginations come up with.
Note:
The papers come in white and colors and even prints like clouds and landscapes. Make sure you choose a lighter background that will effortlessly be covered by markers or crayons.
Soda Fountains
Want something more explosive and messy?
Try this in your backyard.
What you need:
A 2 liter bottle of soda (not diet), Funnel, Tablespoon, and Salt.
What to do:
Open the soda bottle, insert the funnel. Drop in the tablespoon of salt, remove the funnel and get back! The soda bubbles over and makes a huge mess!
Take it to the Next Level
This gets in truth messy but it’s so much fun you may want to double your furnishes so you have sufficient on hand for a second go around.
What you need:
Outdoor space that is okay to get messy. Unopened 2 liter bottle of soda (not diet), a plastic straw and a package of Wintergreen Lifesavers.
What to do:
Open the soda bottle, and set it in a clear spot on the ground. Open the Lifesavers and push the straw through the centers. Get all of them on the straw. Carefully now, place one end of the straw in the bottle opening and all at once, pour all the mints in. Get back! The contents of the bottle will shoot assorted feet in to the air.
So there you have a few ideas to undertake with your own children this summer. Get out there with them and be a fun parent. Get messy, have fun!
Giddy Up Bend N Build Activity Kit Large 2
Go Loco Bendable Building Sticks Kit. Have fun drawing, sticking, building, and creating with these fun, reusable bendable sticks made of colored string and clear wax! There’s no mess and endless fun! Each stick may be bent and twisted and will hold it is shape without glue-then may be reused again and again! This kit holds 300 Bendable Building Sticks in various colors, and one Awesome Idea Book. Recommended for ages 5 and up. WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Small Parts. Not for children underneath 3 years.
Includes: 300 Bend N’ Build Sticks, 1 Instruction Book At Giddy up our name says it all: Get ready for a fun and stimulating ride. We use our progressed technology to develop distinctive and clever productions that are a blast to play with as well as specialize in licensing relationships that turn a childs favored characters into toys they’ll love! Giddy Up technologies include, Surprize Ink, Water Wow, Color-N-Carry, Color Blast, Blendy Pens, Sprayza, Dotza and Color Spltz
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Fun for a while By Nick Alec I purchased this from ToysRus for my little girl. The amount of sticks(300) in it is a great deal sufficient to make stuff. The sticks themselves are average. Their lengths are perhaps 3/4′s an unsharpened pencil. They make your hands more or less sticky, not candy sticky but still sticky. The are not very soft or real hard, i would say intermediate hardness. I just got these a couple weeks ago but the ones that have been applied galore are starting to lose coloring where they have been bent(turning white). I am guessing they will finally break. If you leave them out in the open they will get hard in a couple days. Also you will have to play in neat places as playing where there is dirt and dust (i.e on the floor) will make these sticks pick them up. It is easy to play with them and they stick together moderately well with a little amount of force. Its fun seeing what you kids may makes, they have amazing imaginations. I could scarcely think of anything to make, let alone make it. But my girl was making flowers, crowns,etc…
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