I was surfing pinterest one day, and saw that people were mixing corn starch with shaving foam to make kind of a light and airy version of play dough. So, outside we went.
Just a note on corn starch, it gets EVERYWHERE!!! This stuff is so light and sticky, I am tremendously happy that we didn't attempt it inside.
Anyways, I digress. I had measured out equal parts of corn starch and shaving foam, and let the kids have at mixing them.
I let them play with the corn starch to start off with, thinking that they might find it neat that even though it was really hot outside, the corn startch managed to feel cool the whole time.
Then we added a little food colouring to the shaving foam, and we were off to the races!
I had given them each a spatula, a plastic spoon and a bunch of different cookie cutters from their play dough bin to try out. The mixing took way longer than I had originally planned for, mostly because it was more fun to wear it than it was to actually mix it!!
I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or if my shaving foam was thicker, but we ended up with more of a 2:1 ratio of shaving foam to corn starch, so be prepared to have extra on hand to get the right consistency of dough.
We also found an abandoned wasp nest while we were outside. We had set up under the deck, just to not be in the direct sun for an hour, only to find something else had once liked that spot too. Thankfully, no insects were actually inside, so after a quick discussion aout wasps, it was back to mayhem and destruction!
And voila, we have dough!!!
We are going to try the conditioner and corn starch dough next, so stay tuned and we'll let you know how it turns out!!!
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