Paper Roll Hearts

An Easy Valentine Maxtivity

This is a really cute and super easy activity.  All you need is a couple of toilet paper or paper towel rolls, tape, paint and paper.

Bend and tape your rolls so that the end looks like a heart.  They have now become your heart stamps.

Place your paint on paper plates and dip and stamp hearts all over your paper.

This project makes a supper cute handmade Valentine card for someone special.

GAK aka SLIME

We have been busy playing and I have a lot of catching up to do here on the blog.
This fall at the beach Max made Gak with his cousins.  They all loved it and played with it for weeks afterwards.  You can make it too, it's super easy.

Materials  Needed 

Elmers Glue 

Borax 

Large mixing bowl

Plastic cup (8 oz size works well)

Spoon

Measuring cup

Food coloring 

Water

Zipper-lock bags (to store your Gak)

Water

Step 1

Add entire bottle of glue to mixing bowl.  Fill empty glue bottle with water, recap and shake.  Empty glue/water mixture into bowl.

Step 2

Add food coloring.

Step 3

Measure 1/2 cup of warm water into the plastic cup and add a teaspoon of Borax powder to the water. Stir the solution.  This Borax solution is the secret linking agent that causes the Elmer’s Glue molecules to turn into slime. 

Step 4

As you stir slowly add the Borax solution to the glue.  It will start to bind together.  Keep adding as you mix.  Eventually you will abandon the spoon and need to mix by hand.  

Step 5

Play!  You can add cookie cutters , stamps, cutting tools even cars and trucks to the fun!  When done seal in ziploc baggie.  It will keep for several weeks.

Pipes

We were at the Home Improvement store the other day and Maxton asked for some pvc pipes.
He said wanted to build a waterside with them.  We bought a few pipes and some fittings and this is what happened.

I cut them into smaller pieces using a saw.

We laid them out on a board and then used brackets to attach the pipes to the board.

  

I left them loose enough so we could rearrange the pipes if we wanted to.

He took it apart and changed it around in many different ways.

This activity kept him busy all afternoon.  

When it gets warmer here I am going to make this a part of his sand/water table.

It eventually became a duck pond. :)