Color Mixing with Slime

Exploring Color Theory - Science for Kids

We love exploring color theory through simple play.  After watching the colors of our rainbow slime blend and combine beautifully I was inspired to set up a color mixing activity using slime.  I purposefully made our glitter slime in the three primary colors, so we could mix it to create secondary colors.  Recently on a super hot day we were stuck inside, so I pulled out our sparkly slime to do some mixing.

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Erupting Moon Cake Recipe

Kindergarten Moon Unit Study

We've been busy studying the moon as part of My Father's World Kindergarten.  For sensory fun to go along with our moon unit study we made erupting moon dust and moon dust paint.  I'm so excited to share our erupting moon cake recipe with you today!  This fun recipe combines math and science while practicing basic kitchen skills.  J-Bug and JZ were beside themselves with excitement.  After all, have you ever made a cake erupt?

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Moon Dust Paint Recipe

Kindergarten Moon Unit Study

We've been on a glitter kick lately, so it seemed only natural that we make a sparkly paint recipe to go along with our moon study for unit two of My Father's World Kindergarten.  The boys had so much fun with our erupting moon dust, so the next day we made homemade moon dust paint.  We prefer homemade paint to store bought, and this paint recipe was a huge hit.

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Sparkly Paint Recipe

Homemade Glitter Paint - Recipe for Play

Okay seriously, this might be our most gorgeous homemade paint recipe yet.  It's so sparkly!  We made sparkly finger paint recently, and they made me so happy.  I wanted to make glitter paints again, but this time I wanted a quick, lo prep recipe for play. 

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Erupting Moon Dust Prewriting Activity

Kindergarten Moon Unit Study

We are well into unit two of My Father's World Kindergarten, and J-Bug is thrilled to be learning about the moon.  Unit one was all about the sun, so it naturally transitioned into this moon study.  The first of many activities that I'll be sharing is a moon dust prewriting activity.  I saw this moon dust sensory writing tray from The Imagination Tree, and I knew my boys would get a kick out of it.  Of course, I had to put my own erupting spin on it since my kiddos are all about the baking soda and vinegar lately.

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Sun Activities for Kindergarten

Kindergarten Sun Unit Study

Our sun study has come to an end, and we are actually well into our study of the moon.  J-Bug and I had a great time learning about the sun using My Father's World kindergarten curriculum.  We did several hands on activities to aid in learning, including many ideas from around the web.  Here are our favorite activities to learn about the sun.

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Chalk Recipes and Activities

Sidewalk Chalk Recipes for Play

Summer is just about here, and that means it's time for all our favorite summer recipes for play!  Sidewalk chalk is right at the top of that list.  We love making our own sidewalk chalk paint and coming up with new ways to paint and play.  Sidewalk chalk paint is so inexpensive and easy to make.  I hope you get inspired by these ideas and make your own today!

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Cornstarch Free Sidewalk Chalk Paint Recipe

The Best Sidewalk Chalk Paint - Recipe for Play

I am bursting with excitement over this new sidewalk chalk paint recipe!  It's safe to say we are obsessed with making sidewalk chalk paint.  Who can blame us?  A recipe for play that is easy to make, provides hours of entertainment, and washes away clean with just water?  Yes please!  If I had one teeny, tiny complaint about sidewalk chalk paint, it's that it's hard to spread.  We've had the most luck using foam brushes or filling squeezy bottles with the paint, but I am thrilled to tell you that I've discovered a brand new sidewalk chalk recipe that spreads easily with a paintbrush, produces vibrant colors, and it only calls for two ingredients.  By the way, one of those ingredients is water.  Have I mentioned I'm excited?

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Shaving Cream Play

Shaving Cream Activities 

Shaving cream is awesome.  For real.  We don't use any in our house for shaving.  It's all for art and sensory play.  There are so many ways to play with shaving cream, and it is so cheap!  My favorite thing about shaving cream as a sensory material is that is washes clean with water.  Boom.  Easy.  I've collected our favorite ways to play with shaving cream along with some awesome ideas from my blogging friends to bring the you the best shaving cream activities for kids.

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Making Raisins

Kindergarten Sun Unit Study

We love My Father's World Kindergarten, and to wrap up unit one, a study of the sun, we made raisins.  We actually set up our grapes on day one of our sun study, but of course it took over a week for our grapes to become raisins.  J-Bug (5) was so proud of his raisins, and he checked on them everyday, eager for them to be done dehydrating.  This sun science activity was also a lesson in patience.

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Sparkly Slime Recipe

Sparkly Slime - Recipe for Play

The boys are so in love with our latest batch of slime!  We love making homemade slime, and we were due for a new batch.  Slime generally lasts for many months, but our rainbow slime unfortunately got left outside a few weeks ago.  Oh well, it was the perfect excuse to make a brand new batch!  As you know we love slime and always have a batch ready for play.  Slime is so easy to make and fun to play with, providing hours of stretchy, pulling, bubble blowing, giggling fun.  Just be sure to store it in an airtight container, so you can play with it again and again.

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Erupting Ice Chalk Paint Recipe

Erupting Ice Chalk - Recipe for Play

I don't know what it's like where you live, but summer arrived early here!  We've been touching triple digits this week, so you know what that means?  New summer recipes for play!  The boys had so much fun painting with ice chalk and oil the other day, so when I saw the weather forecast for the week I thew another batch of ice chalk in the freezer.  This time I decided to create a new recipe for play and make it erupting ice chalk!  After all, who doesn't love a good erupting paint recipe?

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Baking Soda Dough

Recipe for Play - Baking Soda Dough

We love creating recipes for play, and some of our favorites include cloud dough, play dough, and foam dough.  Are you sensing a dough theme?  Sensory doughs are so much fun and typically very easy to make.  This baking soda dough is no exception!  Only two ingredients are needed for the base dough, and then you can add color and scent as desired.

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How to Make a Sundial

Kindergarten Sun Unit Study

The other day I shared that I have started kindergarten with J-Bug (5) and why we love My Father's World Kindergarten.  Continuing with our study of the sun, we made a sundial.  This was J-Bug's favorite activity in our sun study yet!

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Growing Bean Seeds

Kindergarten Sun Unit Study

The other day I shared that I have started kindergarten with J-Bug (5) and why we love My Father's World Kindergarten.  Continuing with our study of the sun, I set up a simple demo to demonstrate how the sun gives life.  This demonstration took a little over a week and required a bit of patience since it involved growing bean seeds.

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Painting with Ice Chalk and Oil

Easy Art Projects for Kids - Painting with Ice Chalk

We're back with more easy art projects for kids, an on going series with some of the most creative bloggers around.  So far in this series we've made homemade paint brushes while exploring string, erupting watercolor absorption art while exploring with watercolors, tape resist art on foil while exploring resist art, and melted crayon art in the glue gun while experimenting with crayons.   The theme for today is exploring chalk.  I wanted to think outside of the box, so I set up an art activity with ice chalk as made popular by Reading Confetti.

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