Remember last summers 'Adventures of the Day'? I loooove summertime. Long warm summer days, swimming everyday, bare feet in the grass, ice cream. I just love it. Well, I am trying my hardest to make this summer the best summer ever for my kids, at least until next summer, of course.
I've planned out all our 'adventures' as well as lots of extra stuff like the children's museum, swimming lessons, picnics, the local summer movie program and of course library storytime. And most important, we must leave time for long, lazy afternoons hanging out in the backyard.
We started it off with a bang last weekend in San Diego at Sea World and a day at the beach. Monday we went to Disneyland one last time before it gets too crowded and hot for us until September.
There are so many fun kids crafts out there to try we usually don't do them twice, but this one is so much fun we've done it several times. It never gets old and my kids go crazy for it. It is GLURCH. (Go there for specific instructions.) Never made glurch with your kids? Go buy glue and Borax and do it right now! It is that cool.
The ingredients:
Add coloring of choice and borax mixture
Then stir.
And stir some more. Add more borax mixture until it all coagulates.
Then play! You can stretch it.
Write on it with markers.
Cut it with scissors.
Squeeze it.
You can even blow it up like a balloon and pop it. It isn't messy and doesn't stick to things. The stuff is awesome. When you are done store in a ziplock bag and it keeps for a few weeks.
7 comments:
So cool! We call it Gak, but I like Glurch. I've never made it before...just bought it. Now that I know how easy it is to make myself we'll for sure be making this!
You're such a fun mom!
p.s. wanna send me some info on the summer movies in the park?
Love it!! It looks like so much fun--we're trying it this week. Thanks for sharing! Oh, btw, any chance you guys are going to fly out for the band reunion in Ouray June 27th? It would be fun to see you there!
so cool! i'll have to try that for sure-my kids will love it-thanks! and i absolutley LOVE your new family pic.-beautiful!:)
Sounds like such a FUN summer ahead!! I will follow your lead, and make an adventure plan for our family for when we return to Johannesburg (although it will be winter). After 6 weeks of constant cousin playtime, we will be facing major withdrawal pains if we don't stay busy for the 6 weeks of school holiday we'll have left! Thanks for the fun ideas!!!
Love, martha
Thanks for the great craft idea. We will have to try this. Good luck with your summertime plans too, it looks like so much fun I wish we lived closer and then we would let you entertain us too!
Thanks for the recipe I have tried something similar and it was really messy, this will be a lot of fun!
This is SO cool!! I have to do this with my kiddos! Thanks!
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