Magnetic pipecleaner bottle

Here is another 2 minute boredom buster..... Mister 2 cut up all our pipe cleaners into (approx) 1 cm pieces and placed them into a bottle.Its best if you use the longest bottle you have so they can be moved around.

Use a magnetic wand if you have one, if not any other strong magnet should work-try a Thomas train, fridge magnet or similar. The pipe cleaners will follow your magnet around. This is a very relaxing activity that can be used for calming down after a meltdown or keep it in the car for road trip activities. Older children may like to play the magnetic/non magnetic game as posted in our magnetic sensory tub post.

Halloween-glow bath

Want a spooky way to clean your self this Halloween??
We made our bathroom as dark as possible with blankets covering all the windows and filled up the bathtub with warm bubbly water and added a handful of thin glow sticks.
We found glow sticks at NYE time at Aldi for $7.99 for a hundred pack and they make for some great spooky adventures!



Best of all the water is still safe for kids of any age to enjoy. When your finished keep the glow sticks in the freezer to increase their glow life and they can be used again the following nights.

Water Mixing Experiment

Tara had found one of my books "501 science experiments for kids" on the bookshelf and taken interest in it so we searched through until she found something she thought she could do herself and we came across a mixing experiment.
We filled a bowl of water and added a dropper full of a different liquid to see if it would mix or not mix with the water.
Oil...
Milk...

Dish washing liquid..

Was great to see her really surprised by the outcome. We spoke about hypothesis and conclusions. I'm sure this is the start of many more experiments for us!