I wanted to do some watercolour painting with the boys, but we had no paints *sigh*. Luckily I came across this lovely blog, The Artful Parent, which has many wonderful art activities for children including how to make your own watercolour paints. It seemed easy enough, and I had all of the supplies in my pantry, so we gave it a shot!
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These lava lamps make for a retro and SUPER easy science experiment. This is all you need to make them at home:
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Since visiting the Spark Science Centre, I thought it would be a lot of fun for the boys to have their own light table to experiment with at home. It wasn’t until we were reorganizing our basement, and getting rid of some clear plastic tubs, that I was actually inspired to make one. I came up with a simple design and soon after, as I was congratulating myself on my clever ingenuity, I decided to Google ‘DIY Light Table’… my ego was instantly deflated. Evidently I was not the only one to come up with this brilliant plan, as you can see here, and here (just to highlight a couple). Haha! Oh well, it was still a HUGE hit with my little bugs 🙂
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This looks like a cup of spilled, green, oozing liquid but it’s actually solid to the touch… it’s SLIME! M and I put the slime into a glass and left the cup tipped on its side overnight to see what would happen. In the morning we peeled the slime off the parchment paper and it came out as one big chunk from the glass.
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