Permanent Snowman

1 bar Ivory soap
3/4 cup borax (found in the laundry detergent section at the store)
Your choice of snowman, snowwoman, or snowkid apparel (see ideas in Step 5)

Use a vegetable shredder to shred the soap bar into a bowl. Stir in 3/4 cup borax

In the soap and borax mixture, start adding tap water, a little at a time, as you stir the mixture.
A rubber spatula or fork works well for mixing.

Continue to mix and slowly add water until the mixture is about the consistency Play-Doh or cookie dough.

Lay a strip of wax paper on the work surface. Let your child hand-scoop, or you spoon out a dollop of the soap mixture that will fit the child’s hand for them to form the mixture into a ball or any shape that they want to make. To build the typical snowman, make three balls, and stack them while they are still wet. For stability, you can use a toothpick poked half way into the top of the bottom ball to push the second ball onto, and then poke another toothpick into the top of the second ball to force the top/head ball onto.

Use what ever items you can find for the snowman's accents. Be Creative and have fun!!!

Gak

8 oz White Glue
Acrylic Paint
1 c. water
Borax (*Borax can be purchased at most stores in the Laundry Aisle.)


Combine glue, 5 T. paint, and 3/4 c. of water in a bowl.

In a separate bowl, mix 1 T. Borax and 1/4 c. water.

Pour Borax mix in glue mix. A blob will form. It is a vey cool chemical reaction. Don't worry if it looks a little stringy. The blob will smooth out on it's own.

Remove the ball from the mix and press it into a plastic ziplock.

Make another batch of the Borax and water mix and pour it into the lefto over glue mixture.

Repeat this process until all of the glue mix is gone.

Colored Pasta, or Rice

2 Cups Dry Pasta
1/4 Cup Rubbing Alchol
Food Coloring (about 20 Drops per 2 cups Pasta)

Mix it all together and in a large bowl.

Let it air dry on a paper plate, or paper towels for about 30 min.

Use for Collages with" Tacky Glue", Elmers glue wont work., Use Pene, or macaroni, or any thing with holes in it for necklaces. Can use it in Playdough to make faces and sculptures.

Good for counting and sorting activities.

Good manipulatives for counting card games.

Recycled Crayon Cookies

Recycled Crayon Cookies:Thanks Laura!Slice and peel wrappers off of old crayons. (Crayola definitely are the best, Rose Art crayons seemed to be more runny and watery.)*Use a knife to slice the crayon wrappers down the middle, or it will take hours to peel.Break the crayons up into smaller pieces...about 3 pieces per crayon. Spray a muffin pan with cooking spray. Put a handful of different colored crayons in each cup. (We found the silicone muffin pans work the best for getting the cookies out. But the metal ones still work okay, but it is very hard to get the crayon residue off of the metal. I ended up throwing my metal one away. The silicone ones just popped right out.The oven needs to be on 200 degrees. And keep an eye on them. They need to cook for 5 to 10 min. is all. Just until all of the crayons have barley melted. If you wait too long, all of the colors become just one black lump.Let them cool completely before you try to pop them out.Have Fun!

Ghost Paints

Draw on white construction paper with a white crayon. (Construction Paper really does work the best with watercolors, unless you want to buy expensive water color paper.)
Now just paint over the paper with watercolors!
Ghost Paint!

Haunted House

Haunted House:We used a cracker box, cut out some doors and a window and covered it with black construction paper. It is not something we will keep for ever, but it was fun to play with. Our ghosts were just tissue paper ghosts. They didn't stand up, but they looked good sticking out of the windows, and flying around with Derek's help.

Graveyard Instructions

Graveyard Materials and Instructions:1 Cardboard box wrapped with green or brown butcher, or wrapping paperCorrugated cardboard to cut out Gravestonestoothpicks (to stick in the gravestones and the box)colored tissue paper to glue over the gravestoneswhite tissue paper for ghostsyarn or string for ghostsblack markersticks from outsideleaf punchWrap the box. Cut the cardboard in various shapes with scissors to look like gravestones. Coat with Elmer's glue, and then lay colored tissue paper on top. Just one layer gives the gravestones an old marble, or slate look. When they dry, write funny Halloween sayings on them like "Frank N. Stein", "Boo Hoo".To make the ghosts that stand, we molded them first with aluminum foil, and then covered them with tissue paper and tied them at the neck with twine. But I think they stand up just fine with white tissue paper.Use the black marker to draw faces on the ghosts.Grab some sticks from outside and stick them through the box.Use a small leaf punch and glue a few paper leaves to the trees, and leave some scattered on the box all over.You could also use some sticks, or Popsicle sticks to make a fence around the graveyard. We got tired of working on it, so we didn't do that.