We had some friends from church over to play yesterday afternoon, and I promised the kids we could do a messy activity with Chloe and James. We decided to make Oobleck. I didn’t take too many pictures of the early stages (mixing the cornstarch with water, mixing in the colors), but here the kids are, combining the blue and yellow ooblecks together to make green.
After the mixed the colors, they dumped it out on the table, playing with how it could act like a liquid or a solid. Then they threw chunks of it on the cement and realized it could act like chalk. Then they scooped it back up, ground up some real sidewalk chalk, mixed them together, and added water to make a new kind of goop. The kids were literally covered with mess from head to toe, but it kept the four of them occupied for about two solid hours! Now I just have to hose off the back patio and hope that all that cornstarch doesn’t kill the grass…