Swamp Juice

Ingredients:

2 (3 ounce) packages lime flavored gelatin mix

1 quart hot water

1 (46 fluid ounce) can pineapple juice

2 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed

4 cups cold water

yellow and blue food coloring, optional

2 liters ginger ale

gummy worms, for garnish

Directions:

Dissolve gelatin in 1 quart of hot water. Allow to cool.

When gelatin is cool, pour into a large punch bowl. Stir in pineapple juice, orange juice concentrate and cold water. Add food coloring (if desired) until preferred color is reached (start with a couple of drops of each). Pour in ginger ale just before serving. Garnish with gummy worms.

~makes 20 servings~

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How to make homemade colored sand

This is so much cheaper then buying already colored sand but it does take some work.

What you will need
Play Sand ( I got a 50lb bag at Lowe's for under $4.00
Food Coloring
Water
Spoon
Bowl
Plastic Baggy

                                                                         What to do.

I wanted the same amount of sand in each color. 

1. Put the amount of sand you wish to dye the first color into a bowl.

2. Wet the sand but not enough to soak it just make it damp all around.

3. Put some food coloring onto the sand.

4. Mix it in. you will want to kind of push down with the spoon and drag it to really get the color mixed in.

5. Add more food coloring if you want a brighter shade. When this dries it's a lot lighter so make it dark.

6. Bag it up and let it dry.

All done.

You use colored sand for so many things.

1. Sensory Bins
2.. Sand Art
and many more things you can get a lot of ideas by looking it up online. I'll be sharing what we use ours for..



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Color weeks.Green week

So since we've done both Yellow week and Blue week I wanted to do Green week next to teach Eli that when you mix colors you get a new one. So here is everything we've done so far this week with the color Green. :)

Super green bath with all of green toys we could find.

Weird looking tree

Homemade bath paint ( Made with shaving cream and food coloring.

Leaf coloring 

Tomorrow we will be using this for something else. 

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Rainbow Colored Flowers Experiment

Mom came up with this one.

I'll keep updating on how the flower look day to day.

Just in case no one has heard of this before I don't want to share what happen at the top of the post.

I did mine in rainbow but you can do this in one color or two. You can do that to match a wedding or party. I would start it about a week before tho so it has plenty of time to work.

What you will need.

Jars , vase , cups, ( I used all 3 )

food coloring ( I used about 10 drops of each color. I wanted it strong )

Water

White Flowers

What to do.

1.Fill the jars up with water.

2. Put in the food coloring..                

3 Cut off the flowers and make sure to slant them.

4. Put them into the jars and just leave them there till you get the color you want. 

I didn't use all of my flowers but the rest I am going to plant outside.

Day 1

Day 3 you can see how the flower is starting to change colors.

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Baby Oil and Food Coloring Sensory Bag

This was super easy to make and it smells so good.

What you will need.

Baby Oil

Food Coloring

Baggy \

Duct Tape

What to do

Put the Baby oil into the bag. Then put the food coloring in. Now get all the air out of the bag and then 

close it and duct tape the top. All done now the kids can play with it.

Be careful as it may leak and make sure they don't ingest it.

What it does 

So the baby oil will not mix with the food coloring so it's kind of like a lava lamp.

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Homemade Play dough

So this week we've made some home made play dough for the boys to play with. Much to my surprise everyone including my mom and sister ended up playing with. This was my first time making play dough and I was going to do a double patch to make more colors but I didn't have enough cream of tartar. After I go to the store tomorrow I will  make some more and update this post with the new colors. I will also take pics of each step as I do them and add them to the bottom of the post in order.

What you will need..

1 cup water
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon cream of tartar
Food coloring

Directions

Combine water, flour , oil, salt, cream of tartar, and food coloring in a saucepan and heat until warm

Stir, then knead until smooth. The cream of tartar makes this dough last 6 months or longer, so resist the temptation to omit this ingredient if you don't have it on hand.

Store this dough in an airtight container or a Ziploc freezer bag.

Also Eli (14 months ) only tried to eat this once and after he tasted it he took it out of his month and said yucky so I don't have to worry about him trying to eat it again ( I hope )

After it was cooked I put it on a pizza  pan to cool

After it cooled I made the dough  into 1/4. After that I made them  into  little  balls  and  pushed  a hole into the middle.

Then I dropped the food coloring into the holes.

All closed up.

My mom couldn't wait to see what colors I did and started playing with it to spread the  food  coloring  around.

Neon Pink

Neon Purple 

Neon Green

Neon Blue ( it didn't want to spread evenly like the other but it's super blue )

playcreateexplore also made some scented kinds  Here

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cooked Noodle Sensory Bag

Today we worked on colors and squishy.

Eli loved stepping on these. He also loved to throw them out of the bin and throwing them back into it. 

When he started to get a little bored with it I gave him a old bucket that was once used for cotton candy. He then started stacking the bags on top of each other and throwing the bags into the bucket.

What I used.

noodles ( I got mine form Dollar Tree but you an get them even cheaper with coupons )

food coloring 

plastic bags 

duct tape.

Step to making this awesome bag.

1. Cook the noodles like you would any other time. Make sure to put a little oil in it so they don't get sticky.
2. Put equal amounts of noodles into your bags ( 1 bag for each color )

3. Put the food coloring in.
4  Close and get out as much air as you can

5. Duct tape the tops to keep the bags from opening.

6. Give to the kids to mix the color in :)

What we ended up with.

This is how I duct taped the tops

Sorry for the mess in the back ground. We haven't cleaned up yet from playing today.

Squishy

Putting them into the bucket

Now he's dumping the bucket back out

Sorry for the bad pis it's super hard to get a good pic of Eli (14 months) due to him moving so much.

After all that playing he was ready for a healthy snack

 playcreateexplore did some noodle play also but hers is a little different. If you would like to see what she did  here is the link


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Inside Blue sensory bin

I'm still learning to do sensory bins so this one isn't the best I've done. Eli ( 14 months )

still had a lot of fun with it.

What I used.

Blue rice ( You an see how I made it  Here )

Aqua beads ( I got mine from Dollar Tree )

Plastic toys

Cookie cutters 

Sponges

Rubber ducks

plastic ball

This is a Aqua bead they are clear when you buy them but you can let them soak in  water  mixed with food coloring to  color them like I did.

Also if you get the rice wet the coloring will come off and stain.

You can see what else we've done for Blue week here

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Color Weeks. Blue week

This week is blue week in our house. I got together a cool blue sensory bin for Eli (14month) which I will take a pic of later once he is done breast feeding. We also had a really awesome blue bath tonight and we even went over some shaped I drew on he wall in blue bath paint. Eli even said Circle and Triangle and Blue which sounded like glue haha.

I ran the water then added some blue food coloring. I also added as many blue bath tub  safe toys I could find
within a couple mins.

See the shaped? I was so proud of him for saying the shapes name with me . He even pointed to the circle.

He was rubbing the stuff on the walls.

He was all smiles the whole bath.

It's so hard to get clear pics with this boy. He jut loves to move around

 That's all I have for now but I will keep updating till this week is over...
3/17/2013

Blue Sensory bin

Yummy Blueberry smoothie 

Blue water and outside play sensory bin

Bath tub shaving cream paint 

Blue bath

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