Jell-O bubble fun

Bubbles are fun!!! My kids love playing with bubbles. We have made firework bubbles, colored bubbles in the bath, and even made scented bubbles.

This is super easy to make, all  you need is a bowl, dawn dish soap, water and jell-o. Mix them together to make your jell-o bubbles. Then get a straw and blow bubbles.

Today we had fun with Jell-O bubbles. We blew in the the bubbles to see who could make the biggest bubble mountain. Jake and Cate had a blast and laughed so much.

I just love all the face expressions when making the bubble mountains.

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Homemade scented bubble bath paints

Make your own scented bubble bath for kids. Tear free and safe for sensitive skin. We have used the shaving cream bath paints in the past but every time my daughter uses them she brakes out in a rash. So we had to stop using them in the bath.

I wanted to come up with something that they could paint with as well as makes bubbles in the bath. So you get a dual purpose out of it. Then the other night while washing them an idea clicked.


Mix a kool-aid packet and  Johnson's baby bath for sensitive skin together and you get a fun bath paint along with scented/colored bubble bath.

NOTE: We have used the Target brand as well and works good.

We used the paints to paint our Easter eggs for the bath, the great things about these paints are that you can wash it right off the foam and paint again.

For this bath we used craft foam I cut out the bunny shapes and eggs and the kids made bunny faces like we did at Christmas for our Frosty Bath and painted their eggs.

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Fizzing and bubbling goop kids science

When playing around making our own scented goop  I came across this fun fizzing and bubbling science for the kids to try.

I mixed our goop up and then added a  kool-aid packet to it for a fun smell and it started fizzing and bubbling like a volcano.  It looked so cool and smelled so good.

We made rainbows, the kids explored color mixing, and made fireworks. They had alot of fun.

One of the best things about this science play is it is super inexpensive.

Materials:
Cornstarch.....you can get this at Wal-Mart for $1.00 12oz
Baking soda....Wal-Mart as well 16oz for $2.00
Kool-aid packets....$0.20 at Wal-Mart
Tray or pan for the goop
Little containers for the kool-aid (optional) I had the kids use a little spoon to scoop the kool-aid powder onto the goop. (You only need to sprinkle a little bit at a time, but doesn't always happen with the kids.) 


How I made the goop:
2 cups of baking soda
1 cup of cornstarch
1/2 cup water

After you make the goop then you sprinkle kool-aid powder on it and that is when you get the bubbling and fizzing science fun.


NOTE: You want to have more baking soda then cornstarch cause the bubbling and fizzing happens due to the baking soda and the citric acid in the kool-aid packets when combined.  I just noticed when adding more baking soda to the goop on the tray it seemed to bubble and fizz more.

You can tell by "J" face expressions that it was fun and cool.

"C" she was so into it. As she was doing the colors I would tell her the colors of each one and have her repeat it cause we are working on colors with her.

We love doing fun science experiments, so be sure to check out some of our favorites below.

Lava Lamp

Coke explosion

Make your own snow play

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Disney Magical Christmas fun bath

What kid doesn't like Mickey and Minnie Mouse? November we took the kids to Disney when visiting family in Fl. They had a blast.

"C" is in love with Minnie Mouse and all the Princess charcters. So the other day I was Christmas shopping and saw cute Christmas window clings in Walgreens and Dollar Tree had some as well, so I picked them they were $1.50.

So I placed them all around the bath tub, places some Disney toys in the tub. Filled up the tub with lots of bubbles colored them red and green for Christmas. Then added some colored shaving cream for painting if they wanted to paint on the tile.

Simple, fun and magical. It's the little things that you do for your kids that make the BIG difference in their life.

This fun bath just took a few minutes to put together and brought smiles to my kids faces that last a life time.

They had so much fun and this was simple colored bubbles and bath paint.

The joy that is brought to your child(ren) face by taking alittle extra step to add some fun to a bath or play is priceless and remember life is short you never know what tomorrow will hold.


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Spooky Boo Bubbles

The kids love to play in the bubbles, so we mixed orange kool-aid and alittle black food coloring together and made Spooky Boo Bubbles.

We mixed in the Halloween fun toys as well from the Dollar Tree. They are plastic and hold up well. We have done several different sensory play with them.

Materials:
Dish soap for bubbles
Kool-aid (orange)
Food coloring (black)
Dollar Tree Halloween toys

"J" loved mixing up the bubbles with his mixer.

 

If you like the fun sensory play for Halloween be sure to check out the other fun things we have done.

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15+ things you can do with Kool-Aid

Food coloring can get expensive using a lot of it, so I started using kool-aid in its place. Well it has worked great and has brought a lot of fun to our play.

There are so many ways you can use kool-aid. I have gathered a list of things we have done and over time there will be more to add, so be sure to check back.

Also, kool-aid is $.20.  What better way to have fun then to add a little scent to your play.

 1. Make your own kool-aid play dough

                       Note you can mix kool-aid in with store bought play-doh as well for a fun smell

2. Make your own kool-aid rice

       3. Kool-aid spray paint art

     4. Make your own scented glue for art

        5. You can make Kool-Aid lava for the volcano's.....makes the vinegar smell alittle better.

Don't have a post for this but we use this for the lava when we do volcano's with baking soda

 6. Make your own scented sand

             7. Make your own scented paints

        8. Kool-aid colored pasta

     9. Scented bath paints

  10. Scented slime fun

                  11. Kool-aid tea party fun great for a hot day!!

     12. Yogurt paints

    13. Rainbow cupcakes



14. Dyed Eggs

We did this at Easter and all you have to do is add water and a little vinegar to the kool-aid and it dyed the eggs.

   15. Scented bubble fun

   16. Goop science 

     17. Magic snowball science

18.Ice Volcano

19. Homemade Gluten Free play dough

20. Dancing powder science

21. Kool-Aid ice cream dough

22. Homemade scented bubble bath paints 

23. Kool-Aid ice bowling

24. Magic Jell-O Ice

25. Alphabet erupting ice

26. Kool-Aid Ice Boats

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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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