Applesauce Ooblek
Materials Needed:
● cornstarch
● applesauce
● kitchen utensils and pans
● added cinnamon spice
Suggested Instructions:
Start by mixing the cornstarch and applesauce together in a large container, it’s about ½ cup of
applesauce to one cup of cornstarch, the mixture it makes is almost like a dough and smells delicious!
Provide things for play like kitchen utensils, muffin tins, pie tins etc. The mixture will smell amazing and
is safe to eat!
Melting Ice
Materials needed:
1. Objects in frozen ice( toy figures)
2. Bowls
3. Food coloring
4. Water droppers
5. Water
6. Balloon
7. Table cover
8.salt
Procedure:
The children will have a frozen ball of ice with a toy inside. The ball of ice will be placed in a bowl and
the children will be given water droppers with lukewarm water, salt and food colored water to melt the
ice ball and make some pretty art as they melt the ice ball and get the toy from inside the ball.
(How to make an ice ball – put the small toy inside the balloon, then fill the water in the balloon to your
desired size, and then put it in the freezer overnight. Take the skin off and you’ll have an ice ball).
Liquid Rainbow
Materials:
• Food coloring
• Five plastic cups
• Water
• Honey
• Dawn dish soap (blue)
• Alcohol
• Olive Oil
• Water bottles
• Napkins/paper towels
• Spoons
Procedure:
The five materials will be placed on the table. In front of that table we will have cups filled with
that substance. The cups will have labels with their names on what is in each cup. Alongside the cup
there will be a spoon per cup. We can ask the children open ended questions regarding the substances
in the cup and what will happen. Food coloring will be added to the substance in order to create the
rainbow effect. The children will come up and fill their water bottle with each substance. When all five
substances are in the bottle we will wait to see it all separate or mix. After the substances are settled
the children will shake the bottle to see all the substances combine. The child will set the bottle on the
desk or floor and watch what happens. That way we will test for its density and the children are able to
use the observation method to see what happens. As a result the children are able to see if their
prediction was correct.
Ice Painting
Materials:
Water
Sugar-free Koolaid Packets
Food Coloring
Popsicle sticks
Ice Cube Tray or Popsicle molds
Blank Sheets of Paper
Procedure:
We will create Koolaid ice cubes that the children can paint with. We will use the food coloring to make
the colors more intense and have decided to use a bit of Koolaid for flavoring since toddlers do use taste
as well to explore. We will have colored ice cubes by themselves and also some with Popsicle sticks if
the children feel it is too cold to handle with their bare hands.
Rain Cloud
Materials:
Glass Jar (plastic cup that is see through)
dropper
shaving cream
food coloring and water
Procedure:
1. Ask the child to simply pour water into the cup
2. when pouring the water, to leave and inch from the rim for the shaving cream
3. Add a layer of shaving cream to the water(that's the inch that you leave. (make sure to not make
the layer of shaving cream thick because then it would take a while for the food coloring to
make its way out.)
4. Add a few drops of blue food coloring to the layer of shaving cream. (the weight of the
food coloring will start to push through the shaving cream and fall down through the water.)
5. Just watch the colors fall into the water and spread around.
Jellyfish in a Bottle
Materials:
Transparent Bags
Plastic Bottles
Thread
Food coloring
Scissors
Glitter (optional)
Plastic fish (optional)
Colored Markers (optional)
Procedure: The children will learn on how to create their own jellyfish in a bottle. The children will grab
a plastic bag and cut the bag into a square. Then they will grab a section of the bag and cut a piece of
string to tie up the jellyfish head. Then the children will cut up the remaining parts of the bag to create
tentacles for their jellyfish. Next they will push the jellyfish in the empty bottle. Then they will fill the
bottle with water; add a few drops of blue food coloring. Lastly, they will squeeze the bottle or tip it
upside down to make the jellyfish swim up and down inside the bottle.
Magnetic Slime
Materials:
• Liquid starch – We used Sta-flo Liquid Starch.
• Elmer’s glue
• Iron Oxide powder
• Disposable bowls for mixing it up
• Craft Sticks- for stirring
• A neodymium magnet
Procedure:
Step 1: Pour 1/4 cup of liquid starch into a bowl. Add 2 Tablespoons of iron powder and stir until well
mixed.
Step 2: Add 1/4 cup white school glue and mix. It will look like a huge mess that isn’t going to turn into
anything, but keep stirring!
Step 3: Take the slime out of the bowl and mix with your hands. Squish and squish until it’s well mixed.
There will be some liquid left in the bowl that isn’t part of the slime, and that’s fine. Your hands will get
very black, and you should wash it off right away. We had black left around our fingernails and slight
staining on our hands, but it was mostly gone by the next day. If you’re not a fan of lingering black
around your fingernails, disposable gloves would solve that problem.
Step 4: Pat the slime dry with a paper towel to get rid of any excess liquid. The finished slime won’t
make your hands black, but the extra liquid will. Once the slime is “dry,” it’s ready to play with!
LAVA LAMP
Materials:
Vegetable Oil
Food Coloring
Alka Seltzer
Water
Water Bottles
Procedures
1. Pour the water into the bottle.
2. Use a measuring cup or funnel to slowly pour the vegetable oil into the bottle until it’s almost
full. You may have to wait a few minutes for the oil and water separate.
3. Drops food coloring to the bottle. The drops will pass through the oil and then mix with the
water below.
4. Add seltzer tablet and drop the tablet into the bottle.
5 Too keep the effect keep going you just drop more acid tablets. And to get a better effect on
your lava lamp you can get a HID light and light it up under the water bottle to get a better
effect.
Color Surprise Eruption
Materials:
1. Baking Soda
2. Vinegar
3. Color Bath Tubs
4. Squeeze Bottles
5. Small Containers
6. Table Cloth
Procedure:
First we shall set up table with all ingredients. Then we will have the children pour the baking soda into
the little containers and while they put the baking soda into the containers we will hide the color tabs
within the baking soda so they will not know what color will come out. Then the children will place the
small containers into a big container so they will avoid getting dirty. Once all small containers are put in,
the children will take turns squeezing the bottle with vinegar into the baking soda discovering the color
of the tab within the baking soda creating a surprise color eruption.