Tomorrow is October 1st which means it's time for a little Halloween fun! Today's activity is magic dancing ghosts but in all reality, there's no magic behind these ghosts, there's science! It's all about static electricity. Magic dancing ghosts make the perfect science activity for kids. To make your own dancing ghosts you'll need: Toilet paper Pen or marker Black balloon (color optional) Dark room (optional) Flash light (optional) 1) Start by drawing small ghosts on toilet paper then cutting them out. 2) Next, blow up your balloon. 3) Rub the balloon on anything that will create static electricity (we prefer to rub it on hair!) 4) Hover the balloon over the toilet paper and watch it dance! For more fun, take your set-up into a dark room with a flash light. Shine the flashlight onto the ghost but avoid the black balloon. If you get it right, it will look like the ghost is floating on its own! … [Read more...]
How to make Flower Fairies
Do you have access to different flowers, petals, and leaves? Then this is the project for you! Gather up many nature objects around the yard as you can (flowers, ferns, leaves and twigs). On a piece of cardstock paper or construction paper help your child create flower fairies with glue, markers, crayons and their nature finds! It's really easy to do and so much fun! … [Read more...]
Fairy Garden Magic
My daughter and her BFF are really into Fairy Gardens right now so I thought I'd share with you. You can make it as simple as you want or as detailed as you want. Most local hardware stores will have some supplies but, you can also make your own. We started with something simple like a little fairy house. I let her pick out which one she wanted and we found the perfect place for it in the yard. After a couple of days "the fairy" visited and left a little blue bird house for the house and a little note in chalk on the sidewalk. My daughter loved it! She totally loved that the fairy came to visit and left her a little surprise. A few days later "the fairy" visited again...this time she left a little bridge and a note that she needed a way to get into her house. My daughter couldn't believe that the fairy visited again! I sneaked my way over to my friend's house to leave a special note and surprise at my daughter's BFFs Fairy House. Over the past week the fairy made a little … [Read more...]
Vinegar Ice Cubes + Baking Soda
The other day when we were learning about primary and secondary colors and having a grand time with our colored ice cubes I got busy cleaning our kitchen afterwards. I saw that I had a box of baking soda out still from our volcano in a bottle activity and wondered to myself if you could freeze vinegar? Combining these two activities of freezing liquids and using baking soda...hmmmm, I just wondered! Turns out you can freeze vinegar and it freezes really well! (mental note to self!) I dumped a little baking soda into our flat plastic bowls (the ones I use when we batter fish) and grabbed our tray of vinegar from the freezer. This was a great activity for my kids as they love the feel of the bubbles that vinegar and baking soda make. They kept adding more and more vinegar ice cubes to the baking soda to create more and more bubbles. I am pretty sure they played with the whole thing for well over an hour. … [Read more...]
Playdough of the Month–Edible Peanut Butter
I'm SUPER excited to share something with you, our lovely readers....every month we're going to be sharing a Playdough of the Month! It will be different every month so be sure to keep close tabs on us! If you have anything you'd like to see us create let me know and we will give it a try. This month: Edible Peanut Butter Playdough All you need is: 1 cup creamy peanut butter 1/2 cup honey 2 1/3 cups powdered sugar Mix all ingredients in a bowl (tip: use a mixer if you have one it will cut your mixing time down to mere seconds). When all ingredients are well incorporated then your playdough will be ready to use. No baking required! Mykids love this playdough because it tastes really good and it works just as well as store-bought playdough. Just keep close eyes on them or they will end up with a belly ache as they will try to eat the whole lot of it! … [Read more...]
Primary Colors to Secondary Colors
The other day my son asked me how to make the color green. I simply replied "blue and yellow." No sooner than I could spit the words out I realized that answer would not suffice. He was going to want a better answer than just the colors that make green. We got to talking about primary colors and secondary colors. I explained to him that you cannot make primary colors and that they consist of Red, Yellow, and Blue. With those three colors you can make secondary colors consisting of Purple, Green, and orange. I also knew that my explanation would need some sort of visual back up (that's just the way his mind works) so I pondered what I could do other than just break out the crayons. I grabbed my ice-cube trays and filled them up with water. I added a small drop of yellow coloring to 4 of the cubes, a small drop of red to 4 other cubes, and a small drop of blue to the remaining 4 cubes. Four cubes of each of the primary colors. I popped them into my freezer and waited the 45 minutes … [Read more...]
