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How to make play dough

what you will need:



  • 4 cups flour

  • 1 cup salt

  • 4 tbsp cream of tarter

  • 8 tbsp oil

  • 4 cups water

Method:



  1. Mix all the ingredients in a mixing bowl, add any food colouring you like and cook it in a pan on low heat until it is thick and non sticky.

  2. Kneed the dough for two minutes.

  3. Store it in a plastic bag inside of a plastic container and keep it in the fridge.

Make a Volcanoe from Play Doh

what you will need:



  • plate

  • play doh

  • 1/4 cup vinegar

  • red food colouring (few drops to give red colour)

  • baking soda


Method:



  1. Using the play doh make a mountain shape and make sure the base of the mountain is firmly on the plate. Now using your thumb make a hole in the top of the mountain. It should look like a volcanoe now.

  2. Mix the vinegar and red food colouring toegther (remeber to get an adult to help you with this part)

  3. pour this into the top of the volcanoe

  4. NOW FOR THE EXCITING PART. Grab 1tsp of baking soda and gently pour this into the top of the volcanoe.

  5. watch the volcanoe ERRUPT!

Wind Catchers


Take a milk carton and cut the bottom off, then make a door on each side. Fold the doors open on all sides and let the kids paint the cartons.


Tie a piece of string through the top of the carton and hang the wind catcher outside and watch them swirl in the wind.

Stainless Glass Windows

Ingredients

Black paper
Scissors
Adhesive clear duracel
Different colours of Cellophane

Method
Take the black paper and fold it twice, now with the scissors cut different shapes along the fold ensuring you leave a slight gap between the fold. Make sure you don't cut the edges. Once done, open up the paper and you will now have semetrical shapes on the paper.

Now take the Cellophane and cut out small pieces. Take the adhesive duracel and lie it down on a flat surface with the sticky side up. Now put the pieces of coloured cellophane onto the duracel making sure you leave gaps of sticky duracel. Once you are done, take the black paper and press down onto the durancel over the colured pieces of cellophance. Trim the edges to make it tidy. Turn it over and there you have your stainless glass window. Looks great when you put them up against the sunlight.

Twinkle Twinkle little star

All kids love twinkle twinkle little star so why not make it real. This is very easy to do and the results are amazing.

Ingredients

Black A4 paper
Gold and Silver/Blue glitter
Yellow card
Glue
Pencil
Scissors

Method
Take the black paper and apply glue all over, you may want to get an adult to help you. Now for the fun part, take the silver or blue glitter and lightly dust it over the glue. Now take the paper and dust of any remains of glitter. You will now be left with something that looks like the sky at night.

Now to make the star, take the yellow card and draw a star on it. Cut out the star using the scissors. Take the glue and apply all over the star. Now for the fun part again, take the gold glitter and dust it over the glue. Now take the star and dust of any remains of glitter. You will now be left with a dazzling shiny star. Glue this down onto the black glittery paper we did earlier. There you have your twinkle twinkle little star.


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