What do you do with goop

When the goop melts it turns into a liquid…or does it? When you press goop into a ball in your hand it feels like a solid but as soon as you let go it flows like a liquid. Limiting yourself to primary colors of goop and then combining those colors is great way to learn about color mixing.

By combining two primary colors you will create a secondary color. And if you pre-order between now and June 4 and enter your order number via this form you will be entered to win an entire set of the STEAM Kids eBooks.

Hop over here to follow along. Goop is one of my favorite sensory activities for babies as well as toddlers, preschoolers and elementary students. How to make oobleck: The ratio is approximately 2 to 1.

How much you make will be determined by your sensory table size. Start with 2 cups of cornstarch and then mix in the water. Sometimes we put the oobleck on a tray, sometimes on the large storage tote and other times straight up on a plastic table if there is a little lip there to keep everything from falling. Today we had some very very messy fun! We mixed cornstarch and water which is known as Maizena in some parts of the world and mixed it to create a fun and unique texture that is sure to keep kids and adults busy!

It was such a beautiful day outside so I took this opportunity to introduce this activity to A. D has done this quite a few times already and has loved it every time. What is great about this activity is that you are exposing them to a different texture than what they are normally used to. I added some large buttons into the mixture so that the kids could search for them… and A could practice her pincer grasp by picking them up.

For those of you that attempt this with young kids please keep your eye on them at all times… buttons can be a chocking hazard…. I chose to use very large buttons because of this but as you can see, I had a very close eye on my 1 year old. D would run his finger through the mixture and pick it up and watch the liquid ooze down his fingers… This mixture looks a little hard but when you touch it..

He also liked playing with the maizena cornstarch powder and throwing more powder into our mixture. Goop, better known as Oobleck named for a slime in Dr. For my science friends out there, this is a dilatant material, which is one that changes its properties in reaction to external stimuli.

Seuss book yet! To get the most bang for your buck, do what I did and set up this goop-making activity up as a 3-part activity to enable your child to experience the medium in multiple ways.

I placed the jar of corn starch in the tub, alongside a spoon and a couple small bowls. I expected my daughter to pour the whole tub of corn starch out, but she carefully scooped it from the container spoonful by spoonful. This took a while, as she was wholly invested in the process of measuring and then pouring. Once playing with dry corn starch ran its course…. We added water. I gave her just a bit at a time, so she could enjoy the process of mixing it in.

Ultimately, the cornstarch:water ratio is about And once she seemed to have her fill of playing with this funny material…. We added a few drops of liquid watercolor to the Oobleck food coloring would also work , which she swirled around and mixed up. She was really interested in dropping the color into the mixture, but stirring it up barely sustained her interest. After focused play with the Oobleck for the last 30 minutes, she seemed to have had enough…ready to move on to the next big thing.

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