Make your own mud pie science not using mud

If you have been following along you know we have been having a blast doing fun bubbling and fizzing science play. "J" was asking to play with the mud again from our dinosaur erupting sensory play, so I took out our stuff to make fun mud pies.

This is a very easy to set up science play and you can get everything you need at the Dollar Tree making this very inexpensive.

Materials:
Baking soda($.50 for 12oz box at Dollar Tree)
Instant coffee($1.00 for 7oz bag at Dollar Tree)
Vinegar(we buy it by the gallon and it is $2.38 at Wal-Mart)
Squeeze bottle (We got our at Wal-Mart in the baking section 2 for $2.00)
Sprinkles($1.00 at Dollar Tree)

To make the powder base all you need to do is mix a box of baking soda(12oz) and instant coffee(3oz) together making sure it is all blended.

The kids had a blast and spent at least 45 minutes playing if not more. The great thing about this play is the main base is baking soda so it will keep bubbling when you squirt the vinegar on it. Just mix and doing it again.

This play is also a great fine motor skill for little ones squeezing the vinegar onto the Erupting mud. 

NOTE: When I put vinegar in the bottle I mix half vinegar and half water so you don't go through alot of vinegar.

Be sure to check out some of the other fun sensory plays we have done below.

Glowing sand

Homemade moon sand

Kool-Aid ice cream dough







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Sharks and minnows alphabet fishing game

We love playing fun learning games. What better way then to have fun playing and learning at the same time. So I found this free printable over at Projects for preschoolers and printed it and traced the shark and minnows onto craft foam.

Then I placed paper clips on them and wrote upper and lower case letters so we could play a matching fishing and spelling game.

This is a great game for learning as well as fine motor and eye/hand coordination for kids.

How we played is I would hold up a letter and Jake would fish for them with the magnetic fishing poles. Then I would spell words and he put them in order.

This game can be played in a sensory bin, kiddie pool, bath tub or a sand box like we did. Great for a center area in a preschool or daycare as well.

If you don't have a magnetic fishing pole stop by Bonbon Break and check out the cool homemade fishing pole she made for her kids.

If you like learning games below are some of our favorites.

Shamrock learning

Color and shape learning

Fall number learning tree


You can also do learning in the kiddie pool when it is warm outside like we did over the summer. We are so ready for it to be warm outside.

Alphabet scooping fun

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Recycled Old Bicycles into an Art

Everyone of us wants a cleaner and greener environment and recycling is the common expression among us. Finding a second uses and producing into a decorative arts the waste things around us is a trend these days. As of now recycling is the best policy for waste reduction. Here we show you how to transform an old bicycles into creative master pieces.

10 themed Easter Egg Hunt ideas for kids

Easter is one of my favorite holidays, I love all the pastel colors. One of my favorite memories besides always getting a new dress was the Easter Egg Hunt. 

We did several different themed egg hunts, so below I put together a list some are from when I was a kid and some are new ones I can't wait to do with my kids.

1. Alphabet Egg Hunt:

Write the upper and lower case letter on the eggs and then hide mix matched eggs and see who has the most matches after the eggs are found.

Example: place A and g together and see if they find the lower case a and upper case G.

2. Inside Egg Hunt:

Hide eggs in the house and the kids find them.

This was one of the best memories I had at Easter when I was a kid my brother and I finding Easter eggs hidden in the house Easter morning.

3. Night time Egg Hunt:

Kids need to have adults with them and do it in a safe place. Grab a flash light and go on a hunt to find the eggs under the moon and stars. Place glow sticks in the eggs

4. Treasure Egg Hunt:

Decorate the area like you are on an island and make a treasure map then let the kids go and find treasure. You can hide coins and dollars in the eggs. Dollar Tree has fun tropical decorations for this event.

5. Hide the Easter basket Egg Hunt:

Hide the kids Easter basket and set clues in the eggs for them to find the basket.

6. Secret Egg Hunt:

Place messages in the eggs for big prizes. Examples like trip to ice cream shop, play putt putt golf, go bowling and favorite place to eat.

7. Name Egg Hunt:

Write the kids names on the eggs and who ever finds their name first wins a special prize.

8. Math Egg Hunt:

Place numbers in each egg and the person with the highest number after adding them all up wins an extra little prize.

9. Easter Egg Bath Hunt:

Place plastics grass in the bath tub and eggs under it with toys and have them find all the eggs in the bath or this year we hide the eggs under bubbles and that was a BIG hit cause my kids really didn't like the feel of  the plastic grass last year.

Easter hunt bath

10. Golden and Sliver Egg Hunt:

Place a golden and a silver egg in a hard to find spot with money in it.

We did this as kids at my Nana's house and it was so much fun.

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Fizzing scented sidewalk paint for kids

We love to paint and mix science in with the fun things we do.  We had a nice day to play a little outside so I whipped up some fun scented sidewalk paint.

I mixed baking soda, dish soap, kool-aid and very little water together to make our paint. You can make it with corn starch instead of dish soap, but I found it to harden up if it sat for a period of time.

I didn't measure the amounts just placed baking soda, dish soap and water in a bowl. Then when I placed the mixture in the muffin pan I added the kool-aid.

Then place vinegar in a spray bottle and after the kids paint the sidewalk a little give them the spray bottle to make the paint fizz.

This is a super fun and inexpensive outside activity to do with the kids on a nice day. 

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