Mad Lab in Our Kitchen

Today I wanted the kids to make a mess in our kitchen…. sounds crazy I know, but it was lots of fun and really not hard to clean up. I looked up some fun activities to do and I found blobby stuff that was safe for the kids to play with. Its just corn starch and water. Whats funny about this mix is that it looks like a liquid but feels like a dry solid. Its actually really crazy. I found it fun to play with. I added some green food coloring and Caleb liked to pretend it was an alien that we were poking. I named it blobby (yeah… very creative I know) but the kids loved it.

At first Ciara was a little scared of it and only poked it with a fork or moved it around with a spoon but then she watched Caleb and me play with it and then she had it everywhere. Caleb added guys that got stuck in it (it was actually very easy to clean) and the war was great! I gave the kids some cookie cutters and that was interesting, it would cut but then act like a liquid and form back together. It was really neat.

I don’t think I have ever actually made the famous science experiment of the volcano myself so I wanted to try it out. Just baking soda and white vinegar and some red food coloring just for fun. I didn’t tell the kids what would happen but I let Caleb poor in the vinegar and he was so excited! He just loved it! He was jumping up and down when it bubbled up. Ciara couldn’t help but poke the bubbles. Very fun! I think we will do this again sometime… at least the blob because the vinegar kinda stinks, literally. hehe.

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