Scented Kool-Aid paint

We have been into doing sensory things with smell. Who doesn't like the smell of kool-aid? So I wanted to put together a new paint so I mixed flour, baby oil, kool-aid and water.

We got a fun paint that smelled great!! When "J" was painting he said,"mom, this paint smells the best."

Below is what we mixed to get our paint. You can play around and add alittle more of each, but not too much flour or it will be thick. Also, you don't have to use all the whole kool-aid packet, I used couple sprinkles.

We used some for our bath paints and some to make this paint.

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Turtle out of coffee filter

"J" love to do arts and crafts, so today we made a sea turtle with a coffee filter. We did this craft cause we have been talking about different animals that live in the sea, since we are leaving to go to take a trip to go Whale watching.

This is a simple, but fun craft. We added alittle sand at the bottom to give it an extra sea look like the beach.

Materials:
Construction paper
Coffee filter
Glue
Sand

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Scented Bubble Art and Fun

It was a nice day out and we were enjoying the time on the deck so we took out the bubbles. The kids love to pop them and chase after them.

Today "J" added some kool-aid to them to make them scented and colored. It was hard to see the color unless you blew the bubbles on the paper.

You could smell the kool-aid really well from the blue bubbles. Then after "J" made the pretty art, he poured the bubbles into his bubble machine and that was fun!!


Materials:
Bubbles
Kool-aid
Paper (If you want to make a pretty picture)

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Glowing salt sand

We saw this glow in the dark Crayola set at the store the other day and "J" wanted to get it, it was on clearance for $4.00 so I said ok we can try it.

So we took out the set and it didn't work and he was so upset. So Mom had to think of something quick to get the 4 yr old from crying, he was so upset.

So I grabbed the highlighters from the craft area and mixed a couple drops with salt. WOW!! Mom got it to work and we had glowing sand under the black light.

Thanks to Train up a Child for the tip that highlighters is how you make glowing stuff under the black light.

Had to laugh "J" said, "mom you are the bomb, you did magic." Gotta love kids and the things they come up with.


Materials:
Salt
Highlighters(Yellow, Orange, and Pink work the best)

Very inexpensive $.40 for 26oz of salt and $1.00 for pack of 3 markers at Dollar store. I got my highlighters at Office Depot this week, on sale for $.50 for 3 markers.

Easy to make: Pour salt in a container then take inside of highlight out of the marker. I got it alittle wet then squeezed to get couple drops on the salt and mixed it up. if you have neon paints you can mix them in instead of a highlighter if you want to color more vibrant.

Be sure to check out the other fun things we have done with DIY sand. Scented sand and DIY colored sand

If you like the glow in the dark stuff make sure you check out  Train up a child  they have really cool stuff.


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Scented kool-aid bath paints

The kids love to paint on the wall in the bath and it is alot to clean the grout with washable paints or even food coloring. So I mixed alittle kool-aid with shaving cream and we got scented bath paints. Plus it cleaned up with water and soap, not alot of scrubbing.

The kids love it and the whole bathroom smelled so good.

Materials:
Shaving cream....got the cheap kind cause they didn't get too much in the bath (Dollar Tree)
Kool-aid alittle sprinkle whatever colors you wanted.

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Make your own colored glue with kool-aid

We love to do arts and crafts and thought it would be cool to have colored glue and glue that smells good. So we added differnet scents to the glue and made fun art with our glue.

We used Elmer's and Rose Art. I liked the Elmer's better, but we tried it first with the Rose Art cause it was on clearence at the store for $.15.

After we did the swirl art with the glue, "J" wanted to get a brush and paint to mix the colors. He had fun.


Easy to do:
1. Pick the color you want
2. Place alittle bit of kool-aid in the bottle of glue
3. Place lid back on and shake alittle
4. Then open and mix with something long(we used a chopstick)
Keep doing the steps til all the kool-aid is in the bottle of glue or you have the color you want.



















                                                                           The fun glue art




                    After "J" did the glue art he wanted to paint, so we took out the paint brush.


If you like scented stuff make sure you check out the other fun things we have done with smell. Scented bubble ,Scented bath paints ,Scented sand play , Scented slime time and Scented play paints

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Fishing for the alphabet in the sea

We have been working on matching Upper and Lower case letters, so I cut out some sea animals on my cricut machine and then laminated them. Placed paper clips on them and wrote upper case on one side and lower case on other side. Then we fished with the magnet fishing poles.

Placed in the small swimming pool and the kids had fun. I would hold up a letter and then "J" would have to find the match and tell me what letter. "C" would pick a letter up and we would tell her.

 I also added alittle twist and when we picked up a letter I would ask what word starts with that letter.

Materials:
Sea animals
Laminate
Paper clips
Magnet fishing pole (you can make your own as well)

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Fun painting with Kool-Aid

We have used Kool-Aid to make all kinds of fun things in place of food coloring, so today we explored with painting with kool-aid.

"J' picked out the colors of kool-aid sprinkled it on the poster board, then took the spray bottle and sprayed the powered with water. It turned out cool looking.

Not all the colors showed up, but looked neat. Then "C" and "J" took paint brushes and blended the colors around.

Materials:
Kool-aid
Poster board
Spray bottle with water
Paint brush



"J" loved the smell of the kool-aid.

 

 

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Teaching your child to write their name

We have been working with "J" on writing his name. He loves to write on the dry erase board when doing it. Over the weekend I was at Target and found these dry erase board name plates, you get 4 for $1.00 great deal.

Then saw dry erase crayons at Micheal's and thought it would be better to write with them instead of the big markers. So I picked them up as well $2.99 then 40% off not to bad of a deal.

On the dry erase name plates I wrote in permanent black marker his name using dots, so he can trace it and then wipe it and do it again.

He has been writing his name for several months but on a big dry erase board and his letters are BIG when he writes. Will not fit on paper when it is time for school. So this way will help him write smaller.

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Choo Choo into shape learning fun

We have been making fun things with shapes once a week for the past couple weeks. So this week we are featuring the fun shape train.

We used circles, squares and a heart. Then for the clouds we used cotton balls.

This is a fun way to teach shapes along with being creative.

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Exploring colors sensory play

Today J said , "Mom I want to do a project, like color mixing."  I needed to make some ice cube for some ice play they like to do during the week when it is hot. So he helped.

I took out water, food coloring, and we added some of the snow cone flavor as well, cause J wanted them to taste good if he wanted to eat some....kids too funny.

Who would have thought that this could entertain a kid for 45 min. He used the syringe and the dropper(great for fine motor skills). Mixed colors together, then added some flavor. It was like he had his own little experiment shop going on.

After he was done we placed in the freezer and let them freeze during nap time.



No only is this a great fine motor and eye/hand coordination project for kids, but also great for learning color mixture.

Be sure to check out the other fun things we do with color mixing.

Kool-aid fun

Ice art fun

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