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What you'll need:
Every surface covered if you're anal and don't like mess.
Water
Cornflour (often referred to as Cornstarch in online recipes. Over here (UK) we call it Cornflour).
Bowls
A big Bowl
Some more bowls
Food Colouring OR Cheapy water soluble kiddies paint. (Like the ones in the pic from ELC).
Directions: get the bowls, put some cornflour in each. Dribble in some watered down paint into each and mix thoroughly until you have a slimy, fairly thick consistency. Get the kids to stick their hands in it, squish it, roll it, splatter it all over the table, their face, their hair, the chairs, the floor etc (ok the last few are not recommended but may happen...). Then what WE decided to do was stick it in one big bowl (washing up bowl) and mix it all up together. It was fun and weird and slimey. It entertained them for aaaaaages and made a colossal mess.
Then to clean up....just use warm water. But don't pour the ooblek down the drain. Best to either keep it in an airtight container for another day or let it dry out and chuck it in the bin.
It actually rocked and now I am excited to try something else fun and messy. Yey!
Aw this looks so fun! I'm not a mum myself but I do look after my nieces very often - this would be a great idea to keep them entertained! Lovely post :-)
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brilliant post with just a hint of sarcasm. genius super mummy hehe xx love it!! and may actually try it. im a messy okay mum too...crjnge haha!! x @betseylovesx
ReplyDeleteThank you both! Yes Cara, sarcasm is my friend. ;) XXxx
ReplyDeleteWe call it gloop here, the kids love it on a tray running cars through it or writing their names in it. I love the fact it washes out and is easy to wipe up, #letkidsbekids
ReplyDeleteme too! Was a pleasant surprise that it was so easy to clean up! #letkidsbekids
DeleteWe call it gloop too - my boys love it especially theyoungest #letkidsbekids
ReplyDeleteGloop IS a better word than Ooblek. Think Ooblek is probably quite American. Gloop it is! #letkidsbekids
DeleteFantastic messy fun! Kids love nothing more. I never thought of adding paint to it, great idea!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking #LetKidsBeKids
Thank YOU Karen. :)
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