Ivory Soap

I'm sure most of you have seen the ivory soap in the microwave, but if you haven't here it is.  Take a bar of Ivory Soap and place it on a piece of wax paper.  Put in the microwave.....we turned it on for about 3 minutes and just watched it......stop it when you think it's big enough.   

Once you take it out of the microwave, it deflates a little.......the kids loved watching it "grow" in the microwave.

They could hardly wait to feel it and see what we were going to do with it.  We did 3 bars, but not at the same time......that would have probably been a mess!  We headed outside with it.

They crumpled it all up and thought it looked like snow.

After the soap was all crumpled up, I told them to grab their suits and we would play in it a little more.....we also microwaved 3 more bars of soap. 

That's when they thought it would be fun to throw in the air and look like it was snowing. 

Then we put the sprayer on the hose and got all sudsy!

Scrub-a-dub-dub!!!!

Washing those legs!

And the tummy!

And a friends back!

 

They had a blast with this......just be careful not to get in the eyes. 

 Parents, if you are wondering......your children are now all clean and you won't have to do baths tonight!!!  You're Welcome!!!

You can also use the ivory soap to make bathtub paint......here is the recipe, or their own soap, or even a clean cloud......just add toilet paper and water and you can mold the soap.

So many options with a bar of Ivory soap. 

Paper Rockets

We made some paper rockets last week......very simple and kept the kids entertained for quite a while.

All you need is paper (we just used regular copy paper), glue, tape and bendy straws (not sure if that's the technical term or not!).

Have each child decorate their paper......some of the kids made a design or pattern and others just colored.

 Once they are done coloring, roll the paper around a pencil and glue the end.

Then take the pencil out and tape one end closed.

Now the fun begins.......put the rocket on a straw and blow and watch them fly!  You can see in each picture where the straw went.  Some of them were realizing if you aimed it up, it shot up to the ceiling.......this was so much fun.  We had rockets flying everywhere!

Pipe Cleaner Rings

I saw these fun rings awhile back and thought the girls would LOVE to make these.....figured the boys wouldn't be too interested, but I was wrong.....they were interested.  They said they were their spiderman web shooters.

All you need is some pipe cleaners, hot glue, and some gems or buttons.  I found these at Wal-Mart.....they have an adhesive on the back side.  Wasn't sure how well they would stick, so used hot glue to stick them on.

Start by wrapping the pipe cleaner around your child's finger to get the right size, then slide off and twist around and make a spiral.....sorry I don't have very detailed pictures....trying to help them and take pictures doesn't always work too well, but check out the website above she has some great pictures of the process of wrapping the pipe cleaner. 

Then hot glue a stone to the top.  So easy and the kids loved them!

Check them out.....they all wanted them on their index finger!

Cooper wanted 2 different colors.....I think it turned out pretty cool!

Oobleck and Sprinkler Fun

We have made oobleck in the past many times......I wrote about it here.  The kids love this stuff.....well this time they put their suits on and we headed outside.  I think we ended up using about 5 or 6 boxes of cornstarch......I asked if they wanted to color it or leave it white and they decided on green! 

When doing this outside, it's inevitable that they are going to make a mess......on each other! So, we had a homemade sprinkler ready to go......making one is super easy, just take an empty 2 liter pop bottle, rinse it out, poke holes in the sides, and hook it up to a hose.....I had an adaptor from our pvc sprinkler to use to connect the hose with the pop bottle.  I threw the hose and bottle over a tree branch and turned the water on......it worked great!  The way the holes were punched made kind of a shower effect which was perfect for cleaning off the oobleck, but may try punching the holes differently next time and see what happens.  I love this sprinkler, cause you don't have to worry about the kids tripping over the ones that set on the ground.