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Kids Page
You'll find some things
here to make with your kids
on a rainy day and some jokes to share with
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Sparkle Bottle |
Metallic glitter is
magically suspended in plastic soda bottles, creating a rainbow of swirling colors.
What you will need:
Small clear plastic soda bottle with a cap
Light corn syrup
Assorted shapes of metallic confetti
(found in gift and card shops)
Cold water
How to concoct it:
Fill soda bottle 3/4 of the way with corn syrup.
Add a small handful of metallic confetti.
Top the bottle off with water.
Seal the bottle securely with a cap and shake.
Concoctions Tips & Ideas:
Add a few drops of food coloring to your Sparkle Bottle for added interest.
Create Sparkle Wands by using a 1-inch diameter clear plastic aquarium lift tube (found in
pet supply stores) and two 1-inch plastic chair leg caps (found in hardware stores).
Secure a plastic chair leg cap on one end of the lift tube with a hot glue gun. Fill the
tube with corn syrup, glitter, and cold water. Glue the remaining chair leg cap on the
other end of the tube and shake.
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Bath
Tub Finger Paints |
You’ll have fun finger painting while getting yourself
and the tub clean at the same time.
What you will need:
1/3 cup clear, mild liquid dish detergent
1 Tbs. cornstarch
Food coloring
How to concoct it:
Mix liquid dish detergent and cornstarch together in
a small bowl until blended.
Pour the mixture, in equal parts, into several sections
of a plastic ice cube tray.
Add 1-2 drops of food coloring to each section of
the tray and mix with a small spoon.
Concoction Tips & Ideas:
Use Bathtub Finger Paints on the inside of the bathtub to paint pictures and even play
games such as Hangman and Tic-Tac-Toe. Bathtub Finger Paints also work well
as a traditional finger paint. |
Cornstarch
Goop |
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1 cup cornstarch
a small amount of water
Add water slowly to cornstarch until the goop drips from the spoon. The mixture will seem
hard until you try to pick it up then it slides between your fingers. If it is to liquidy
add a little more cornstarch. If the white is too boring for you add some food coloring! |
Flubber |
Ingredients: |
large container
1 cup of water
white glue
2 tsp. borax
In the container mix the water and borax. Then add the glue. The more glue you add the
bigger the glob will be. Stir well. After a minute pick up glob and mush in your hand
mixing in any pockets of glue left. If you roll it in a ball you can bounce it on the
floor but don't try to bounce it on the carpet, it picks up a lot of lint. |
Glop |
Ingredients: |
1/2 cup of milk
1/4 cup of vinegar
disposable coffee filter
Warm the half cup of milk just a little either in the microwave or on the stove. Pour in
the vinegar. Then stir. You will see blobs floating around in the liquid Pour it through
the coffee filter. After the liquid has been strained through the coffee filter you will
see your glop in the filter. |
Recipes to make
with your children ~ great for school parties or after-school snacks. |
Krunch 'o'
Choco
Ingredients:
1 cup captain krunch cereal
1/2 cup skim milk
3 melted chocolate waffers
Steps:
Put waffers in small glass bowl. Melt in microwave stir milk with chocolate.
Cover krunch bars with chocolate
put in refridgerater for 1 hour. Best-Ever
Muffins
Start with this basic recipe and add one of several different ingredients for a variety of
different muffins.
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees F.
Stir together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Make a
"well" in the center. In a small bowl or 2 cup measuring cup, beat egg with a
fork. Stir in milk and oil. Pour all at once into the "well" in the flour
mixture. Mix quickly and lightly with a fork until moistened, but do not beat. The batter
will be lumpy.
Varitations: Blueberry Muffins: Add 1 cup fresh blueberries. Raisin Muffins: Add 1
cup finely chopped raisins. Date Muffins: Add 1 cup finely chopped dates. Cheese Muffins:
Fold in 1 cup grated sharp yellow cheese. Bacon Muffins: Fold 1/4 cup crisp cooked bacon,
broken into bits.
Pour the batter into paper muffin pan cups
and bake for 25 minutes or until golden.
Hamburger
Cookies
These cookies look just like little hamburgers.
Ingredients:
4 drops green food coloring
few drops of water
1/4 cup flaked coconut
48 vanilla wafers
24 chocolate covered peppermint patties
sesame seeds
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
In a bowl, combine food coloring with a few drops of water. Add coconut and cover the
container, shake until coconut is tinted. Set aside. Place 1/2 of the vanilla
wafers, flat side up, in an ungreased cookie sheet.
Top each wafer with a
peppermint patty. Place in the oven about 1 minute or just until chocolate begins to
soften.
Remove cookies from oven and sprinkle each mint with 1/2 teaspoon coconut (for lettuce).
Place another vanilla wafer on top and press gentle. With a clean paint brush, brush the
top of each hamburger with just enough water to moisten so that the sesame seeds will
stick when sprinkled on top of each cookie. NOTE: You can use canned
chocolate frosting in place of peppermint patty, then eliminate the baking.
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Riddles |
| #1. A cowboy rode to an inn on Friday. He stayed
two nights and left on Friday. How could that be? |
| #2. What doesn't get any wetter, no matter how much
it rains? |
| #3. You're a bus driver. At the first stop 4 people
get on. At the second stop 8 people on, at the third stop 2 people get off and, at the
forth stop everyone got off. The question is what color are the bus drivers eyes? |
| #4. If a cat can jump 5 feet high, then why can't
it jump through a 3 foot high window? |
#5. Twelve pears hanging high, twelve men passing
by, each took a pear
and left eleven hanging there. How can this be? How can eleven pears
be left? |
| #6. What is the only thing that you can put into a
bucket that will make it lighter? |
| #7. What has a mouth but doesn't eat, a bank with
no money, a bed but doesn't sleep, and waves but has no hands? |
| #8. Q: David's father has three sons : Snap,
Crackle and _____ ? |
| #9. A man went outside in the pouring rain with no
protection, but not a hair on his head got wet...how come? |
| #10. An airplane crashed on the border of England,
and Scotland. Where did they bury the survivors; England, or Scotland? |
Answers to the Riddles - have fun with your kids!! |
| #1. His horse's name was Friday. |
| #2. The ocean. |
| #3. The bus drivers eyes are the same color as
yours, of course. Because, you are the bus driver! |
| #4. The cat can't jump through the window because
the window is closed. |
| #5. "Each" is a man's name. |
| #6. A hole. |
| #7. A river. |
| #8. David. |
| #9. The man did not get a single hair wet because
he is bald. |
| #10. They didn't bury the survivors - they lived. |
Some fun sites to
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