Making goop
Have a Nice Day!
I just had to share this.
My daughter had picked out a recipe in one of our "concoctions" books and wanted to make "goop". So we did. Well, about the time we got done, we had a whole neighborhood of kids over and they each wanted to do it too. (I could invest in elmer's glue now!!).
Anyway...we have some new neighbors that just moved in this week and they were over.
The 12 year old boy looked at me and said "You know, you are really nice, and you hardly even know us!".
And his 11 year old sister told Sierra that she has a cool mom. (Sierra told me later).
They made my day <big grin>.
Kristen
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My daughter had picked out a recipe in one of our "concoctions" books and wanted to make "goop". So we did. Well, about the time we got done, we had a whole neighborhood of kids over and they each wanted to do it too. (I could invest in elmer's glue now!!).
Anyway...we have some new neighbors that just moved in this week and they were over.
The 12 year old boy looked at me and said "You know, you are really nice, and you hardly even know us!".
And his 11 year old sister told Sierra that she has a cool mom. (Sierra told me later).
They made my day <big grin>.
Kristen
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Today is even more important than tomorrow because "today" is a gift, and "tomorrow" might never come.
Today is where hope lives because today is when we can make things better than yesterday.
The only thing we can be sure of is today and life isn't worth living if it isn't lived in joy for as many moments of today as we can manage.
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In a message dated 3/6/03 12:14:51 PM, litlrooh@... writes:
<< (I could invest in elmer's glue now!!). >>
Keith and I bought a gallon bottle once when a stationery store near us was
going out of business. It lasted us years. We had lots of fun and did a
couple of big glue projects we would have hesitated to do if we'd thought of
it in terms of four big bottles of glue instead of some small part of our
already-expensed gallon!
<<The 12 year old boy looked at me and said "You know, you are really nice,
and you hardly even know us!".>>
That's sweet.
Sandra
<< (I could invest in elmer's glue now!!). >>
Keith and I bought a gallon bottle once when a stationery store near us was
going out of business. It lasted us years. We had lots of fun and did a
couple of big glue projects we would have hesitated to do if we'd thought of
it in terms of four big bottles of glue instead of some small part of our
already-expensed gallon!
<<The 12 year old boy looked at me and said "You know, you are really nice,
and you hardly even know us!".>>
That's sweet.
Sandra
marji
So, you nice mom! :-) Care to share the recipe for goop? I wanna be a
nice mom, too! :-)
That's a lovely story, though, Kristen! There's nothing like hearing that
from young folks! Thanks for sharing the sweet story (and, maybe, the
recipe?).
Marji
At 14:12 3/6/03 -0500, you wrote:
nice mom, too! :-)
That's a lovely story, though, Kristen! There's nothing like hearing that
from young folks! Thanks for sharing the sweet story (and, maybe, the
recipe?).
Marji
At 14:12 3/6/03 -0500, you wrote:
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>really nice, and you hardly even know us!".
>
>And his 11 year old sister told Sierra that she has a cool mom. (Sierra
>told me later).
>
>They made my day <big grin>.
>
>Kristen
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In a message dated 3/6/03 2:14:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
litlrooh@... writes:
is nice to be the "cool" mom.
Pam G.
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litlrooh@... writes:
> And his 11 year old sister told Sierra that she has a cool mom. (SierraWe think you are cool too and my boys' friends often say the same thing. It
> told me later).
>
>
is nice to be the "cool" mom.
Pam G.
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Mary Bianco
Hey Kristen, you have a Sierra too??? So much for picking an uncommon
name!!!
Mary B
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Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
At 11:47 AM 3/6/2003 -0800, you wrote:
it can totally MAKE a party if you've the free spirit to do it.
Either get some plaster/mudding trays (big 2 foot x 1 foot x 6 inch tall
plastic trays) or a big old tarp and put them in the back yard. Make sure
your hose is connected to the water spigot and that the water spigot
works. Go out to your local food wholesaler and buy a couple of the 20 or
40 pound bags of corn starch, a good deal of food coloring and some spray
bottles. Put the corn starch in the tubs or in piles on the tarp. Put the
food coloring in the spray bottles. Put really old clothing on the kids
and let 'em rip.
Within minutes, you'll have brightly colored oobleck all over. Add a
little water to the tubs to speed the process. It's cool how if you strike
it quickly, it's like hitting wood, but if you ease into it, it's like
cream. Very neat.
The food coloring *will* stain your kids, so be prepared for blue/green/red
skinned kids! Takes a few days to wear off completely, longer for blondes.
HeidiWD
> Care to share the recipe for goop?I don't know the recipe for goop, but I know the recipe for oobleck... and
it can totally MAKE a party if you've the free spirit to do it.
Either get some plaster/mudding trays (big 2 foot x 1 foot x 6 inch tall
plastic trays) or a big old tarp and put them in the back yard. Make sure
your hose is connected to the water spigot and that the water spigot
works. Go out to your local food wholesaler and buy a couple of the 20 or
40 pound bags of corn starch, a good deal of food coloring and some spray
bottles. Put the corn starch in the tubs or in piles on the tarp. Put the
food coloring in the spray bottles. Put really old clothing on the kids
and let 'em rip.
Within minutes, you'll have brightly colored oobleck all over. Add a
little water to the tubs to speed the process. It's cool how if you strike
it quickly, it's like hitting wood, but if you ease into it, it's like
cream. Very neat.
The food coloring *will* stain your kids, so be prepared for blue/green/red
skinned kids! Takes a few days to wear off completely, longer for blondes.
HeidiWD
Have a Nice Day!
Does food coloring come out of clothing?
Can't remember.
Kristen
Can't remember.
Kristen
----- Original Message -----
From: Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Making goop
At 11:47 AM 3/6/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> Care to share the recipe for goop?
I don't know the recipe for goop, but I know the recipe for oobleck... and
it can totally MAKE a party if you've the free spirit to do it.
Either get some plaster/mudding trays (big 2 foot x 1 foot x 6 inch tall
plastic trays) or a big old tarp and put them in the back yard. Make sure
your hose is connected to the water spigot and that the water spigot
works. Go out to your local food wholesaler and buy a couple of the 20 or
40 pound bags of corn starch, a good deal of food coloring and some spray
bottles. Put the corn starch in the tubs or in piles on the tarp. Put the
food coloring in the spray bottles. Put really old clothing on the kids
and let 'em rip.
Within minutes, you'll have brightly colored oobleck all over. Add a
little water to the tubs to speed the process. It's cool how if you strike
it quickly, it's like hitting wood, but if you ease into it, it's like
cream. Very neat.
The food coloring *will* stain your kids, so be prepared for blue/green/red
skinned kids! Takes a few days to wear off completely, longer for blondes.
HeidiWD
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Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
At 01:15 AM 3/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Don't count on it!!!
>Does food coloring come out of clothing?Some does. Some doesn't.
>
>Can't remember.
Don't count on it!!!
Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema
Which reminds me of another recipe that uses food coloring ('cause you can
only do so much oobleck and goop...)
Get plaster of paris, food coloring, and some of those little paper cups
(dixie cups?). Mix the plaster of paris according to directions, but add
some food coloring in place of some of the water. Pour into the little
paper cups and let dry a few days longer than you think they need (so the
middles can solidify.)
Peel off the paper and you have a big chunk of colored sidewalk chalk. Now
try to make 'swirled' chalk, and polka-dotted chalk, and...
HeidiWD
only do so much oobleck and goop...)
Get plaster of paris, food coloring, and some of those little paper cups
(dixie cups?). Mix the plaster of paris according to directions, but add
some food coloring in place of some of the water. Pour into the little
paper cups and let dry a few days longer than you think they need (so the
middles can solidify.)
Peel off the paper and you have a big chunk of colored sidewalk chalk. Now
try to make 'swirled' chalk, and polka-dotted chalk, and...
HeidiWD
marji
At 22:29 3/6/03 -0800, you wrote:
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>Which reminds me of another recipe that uses food coloring ('cause you canThanks, Heidi!! What fun!
>only do so much oobleck and goop...)
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Tia Leschke
> Hey Kristen, you have a Sierra too??? So much for picking an uncommonI would have had a Sierra Meadow, but her last name would have been Grove.
> name!!!
Didn't work. We did tease the mil that we were going to name her Coconut or
Sycamore or something like that. <g>
Tia