Water Mixing Tub

Using glass containers and pipettes I made a simple sensory tub with different colors of water. It was a perfect day to sit outside in the sun but not get too hot. A very simple idea but water tubs are always a favorite! I added blue water beads, a funnel, and some ice cubes to make the tub a little different. Loved seeing how the water beads would practically disappear when in the water.

Seeing how the water alters the ice!

Experimenting with squirting the water in through the top of the funnel.

Looking at the different layers of color and water beads. Very cool!

Mad Scientist Lab

Using a wide range of materials, tools and containers I made a mock science lab. Letting him explore the different textures of each item and see what happens when some of the items mix together.
I used shaving cream, baking soda, water, corn syrup, salt, flour, vegetable oil, vinegar and kool aide powder. I added spoons, pipettes, and a chopstick for mixing. It was a lot of fun and kept him occupied for an hour. He even said "This is more fun than fighting" which from a kid who constantly wants to play superheroes and bad guys is an amazing thing to hear!!

I had also added empty containers to mix concoctions in

I added green food coloring to the corn syrup, blue to the water and blue to the vinegar in the squirt bottle. 

The corn syrup was so fun as a green slime!

WHAT A FUN MESS!

Ice Tub

Living in Southern California it has been ridiculously hot out the last couple days. So what a perfect way to cool off with a new type of water tub.

I froze ice in different size containers over night. I used large yogurt containers, small yogurt containers, and to go containers from different restaurants. I used food coloring to dye them and I noticed that since I did not stir the food coloring in it made a deeper color on the bottom and on the top of the ice it was practically see through. It was a very cool coincidence it turned out looking so cool.

It was a lot of fun seeing which pieces could be stack on top of each other and which ones could not work. We talked about why we thought some did not work, the color we thought they would make when the melted and how would could break the ice into smaller pieces.

The only thing else I added was a spray bottle filled with warm water. It did not make a big enough difference to make the ice melt faster but it was a nice relief to spray on our hands when our hands were freezing from the ice.

When we were done playing with it we left it outside to keep track every hour on how fast the ice cubes were melting. We noticed the larger ice cubes melted the slowest compared to the smaller ice cubes. Also the end result of all the colors melted together as an awful green yellow color but it was a super fun to guess which color we thought it would turn out to be.

Trying to stack the different ice

Using ice as a tool to try and break open a larger ice

You can see the layers in the color

SCENTED PAINTING

Focusing on different kinds of sensory projects I decided painting with scents would be fun! and it turned out to even be a little bit funny watching the little dudes face when he smelled some smells he didn't quite like.

I mixed oregano, cinnamon, and nutmeg with watercolor and glue to make a sort of thick paint. I thought of doing the seasonings with their natural color but decided it would be more fun making them different colors.

The activity turned out great and its fun to sort of make our own scratch and sniff papers when they dried!