Continuing on with great fun with kid's-We chose to do on the 4th

In continuance of fun kids ideas for almost any time of the year-even though we did them on the 4th. We have:

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1. Supplies to make bubble snakes. Why to love this fun project. It is so cheap. I got my bubble at the dollar store or you can make your own. You need water bottles. Only one if kids will take turns or you have a single child. Great use for the sock whose mate died in the washer long ago. Most people have scissors, food coloring and a rubber band anyway.
2. You cut the tops of bottles and save these neat ends for a sun catcher on a later date.
3. You slip the sock over the bottle like a glove covering open end of bottom bottle and rubber band it to keep in place.
4. Now in a shallow bowl, pour in bubbles and add food coloring. My kids chose 2 colors.

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    5. Dip the sock and bottle bottom in the bubble mixture and blow.

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My kids loved the balloon blow up one. Again easy and inexpensive fun experiment with things on hand. it was so awesome how it worked.

1. 5 supplies needed in first photo.
2. Fill water bottle about 2/3 full of vinegar. Put soda in balloon. Carefully put balloon lip over top of bottle mouth and loose the soda into the bottle to hit the vinegar . 2nd. picture shows the result starting.
3. You will be reminded of a hot air balloon blowing up the ways it just stand up after a short time. The balloons do deflate but last a few days. Also they will not behave like helium balloons to let you know. But great excitement to do.

 We also tried our hand at polymer clay. the recipe I used turned out great, but will take time to really get it down pat. The kid;s made gifts for their brother for his birthday.

http://thenewnew.blogspot.com/2011/06/homemade-polymer-clay.html

Clay projects made by my children

Here is the recipe link for the clay. I actually -upon reading the comments tried a microwave method someone mentioned so you may wish to scroll down and do it that way. worked wonderfully, though I added more cornstarch to my mixture. the picture next are step by step clay project. I mainly did this part and plan to do a lot more clay things.

To microwave this you use a mixer

Nice clay finished and ready to form.

 Finally our last project was exploding soap fun:

Thanks to :   http://www.ourbestbites.com/2012/04/kitchen-craft-soap-clouds-and-homemade-kiddie-




Each kid had a  bar of Ivory (R) soap. Only ivory works this way.

Finished one bar.

Ice burg of soap





We also as on the link molded the s0ap into cute molded bars, but they really crumbled up when removing so were not nice for picture as the ones from the link I got the idea for.

Ivory soap on microwave plate for about 2 minutes.





I am sorry if my post may be out of order from what I would like, my internet fair usage is messing with it so will have to do as is. I think all are smart enough to arrange the pictures in there mind the order they should be.

Have fun

Upcycling Plastic Bottles.

Great ideas found here :Under the Table and Dreaming for leftover plastic bottles. I am planning on doing the bracelet ones. It may be awhile, but hopefully have pictures if they turn out descent on here. I also love the gift ideas dome and may do that- perhaps today for my son's birthday.I am making mini grasshopper pies and this would be cute.

On the 4th we did this one:

Bubble snakes

This also featured on the link above. The items need to do this are:

Sock with no mate, scissors, bubble -or make your own- rubber band, empty plastic thin bottle and if you want coloring: food colors of choice.

1. 1. Cut sock to slip on sleeve.
   2. Cut off bottom of bottle (parent's job?)
   3. Fit sleeve from sock on bottle covering end with it to make bubbles come out of it.
   4. In small shallow bowls: (not shown ) put layer of bubbles and mix in coloring to your tastes. 
   5. Wrap rubber band on sock to hold it on bottle on shaft of it. 
   6.  Outside and dip bottom in bubble mixture. blow and have fun.
      
      
      

4th of July Kid's Fun Projects

We did this for the 4th in place of fireworks this year since the heat here in the mid west was so bad you were not allowed to purchase. These are great projects to do about anytime of year to your discretion.

Fireflies Jar. We love them here-the real ones!

Things needed for firefly jar project: lidded bottle or jar that you do not need for anything else, assorted glow sticks, and glitter of your choosing. Simple

1. The first Picture above is an example picture from Pinterest. This went to a spam sites,so I will not give a link for credit to the blog for it. The "pin" on Pinterest had directions there (cannot pin this now because site is spam) and they actually worked so I still suggest doing it.  .

I upcycled a clear coffee bottle, bought the glowers at the dollar store and had the glitter.


Gather your jar, break open the glow sticks (be careful to supervise, maybe use gloves and keep the stuff from spilling except in jar. I let my kids do it themselves but they are older. Also I do not know what this might do to clothing so wear old duds.)Pour the glow goop out of stick(s)into the jar(s)and add glitter. Put lid on tight and shake. Now find a dark place and enjoy the fun. We did this in the day and our bathroom is dark without the lights on, but this would work great at night time for outside when warm.


I was planning on posting all our projects, but the post turned longer than expected so I will continue this post with other projects in the next few days. 

As an extra we did not look up the scientific stuff on this one, but I am sure it would be interesting. If it had gone to a site it may have been included so if you want to try to do that let us know what you found on it.