Salt Dough Decorations
Fri, Dec 19, 2014Make salt dough. Cut out shapes. Bake or air dry. Paint! more...
Make salt dough. Cut out shapes. Bake or air dry. Paint! more...
Press objects into puff paint. What do they look like? How do they feel? more...
Bury food, toys & trash in the ground. Dig up 2 months later. What do you see? more...
Compare vegetables from your garden to those from the store. How do they look, feel, smell and taste? more...
Build a teepee with sticks. Tie it together with string. Wrap it in a blanket. more...
Use different rocks to draw on different surfaces. What does it look like? more...
Mix soil and water to make your favorite kind of mud! How does it feel? more...
Look for parts of plants, in our garden, that have been eaten. What ate it? more...
Collect acorns. Divide acorns up by those that sink or float. Leave acorns alone for a week. Have worms burrowed out? more...
Wrap objects in plastic netting bags. Bury them. Dig them up two months later. What happened to the objects? more...
Carve out a potato. Hide it outside, overnight. Check on it the next day. What is inside? more...
Plant seeds or transplants. Paint a rock with your name on it, to mark your spot. more...
Go to the Colorado River at Shaffer's Bend in Marble Falls. Hike and swim! more...
Go to Chalk Ridge Falls State Park. Hike to the creek, climb under the cliff and cross the rope bridge. more...
Go to the Austin Nature Center. Check out the wildlife exhibits, creek, dino pit and Trade Counter. more...
Fill a tray or gutter with sand. Pour water into the sand. How does the water change the the sand pile? more...
Pour hair gel in a Ziploc bag. Add small objects. Seal bag. Squish it! How does it feel? more...
Mix a recipe for puffy paint. Paint with it! How does it feel? more...
Collect dirt. Pour it on a tray and poke around. What do you see and smell? more...
Dip pom-pom in paint. Drop on white paper. What does the splat look like? more...
Fill a small plastic bottle with half water and half baby oil. Tip the bottle. What do you see? more...
Cut a flower of paper. Fold petals inward. Float flower in water. Can you see the petals unfold? more...
Drop a marble through a tube into a bowl or funnel, and watch it swirl around. more...
Shine light through colored water bottles. Shine light through colored plastic dividers. What do you see? more...
Make a spectroscope from a cardboard box and CD. Look through it in different types of light. What do you see? more...
Suspend a funnel. Fill funnel with sand. Swing funnel and release sand onto posterboard. How does sand appear? more...
Create a marble run by using cardboard tubes, cereal boxes pop-toobs and funnels. Where can your marble travel? more...
