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How to Make Oobleck Algorithm Coding Activity

February 24, 2019 By Deirdre

One of my favorite Dr. Seuss books is Bartholomew and the Oobleck. I remember my mom reading it over and over again to me. When I look at the illustrations of oobleck in the book, it looks a lot like slime. Your children will probably think so too. I thought it would be fun on Read Across America Day also known as Dr. Seuss’ birthday to make oobleck slime. You could actually make it on any day you like.

While you could give your children a recipe for oobleck slime, it might be fun to give them an algorithm for the steps needed to make it. The How to Make Oobleck algorithm worksheet will walk children through the recipe steps. Before your children make the slime, you will want them to connect the steps in order on the algorithm activity worksheet. Below you will see what the completed worksheet looks like.

Getting Ready for the How to Make Oobleck Activity

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First, you will need to download a copy of the How to Make Oobleck Slime Recipe Algorithm Worksheet.

Second, you will need to open the PDF in Acrobat Reader.

Third, you will need to print out a copy of the worksheet for each of your children.

Fourth, you will want to get a copy of Bartholomew and the Oobleck

Fifth, you will want to gather together the recipe ingredients. You will need liquid starch, food coloring, and clear glue.

Finally, you will need to gather the creation utensils. You will need bowls, a mixing spoon, and measuring cups.

Creating the Oobleck Slime

Before your children start creating the slime, you will want to read them the book about oobleck. Then you will need to walk your children step by step the slime recipe. Older children can work through the recipe on their own. The key to making slime is to thoroughly mix the ingredients.

Hint: If your children don’t feel comfortable touching sticky things, you could have them wear plastic gloves.

Here are some more slime activities your kids will love:

How to Make Liquid Starch Coding Activity

Exploring Your Five Senses with Jello Slime

Patriotic Slime and Graphing Activity

Saline Slime Recipe and Coding Activity

Patriotic Homemade Slime and Graphing Activity

June 13, 2018 By Deirdre

You can easily create this patriotic homemade slime for the 4th of July, Memorial Day or any other patriotic holiday. After your children have explored the homemade slime, they could wash the slime off in a bowl of soapy water. Once the stars from the slime are clean, they can be used to great a pictures graph on a patriotic stars graph. Your children will have fun exploring slime and working on graphing concepts during this activity.

Before Starting the Activity

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You may want to share a patriotic book or two with your children. Below you will find some wonderful books that have patriotic themes.

Homemade Slime Making

You will need to gather the following supplies to make the slime.

- Plastic bowl or container
- Sturdy Spoon
- 1/2 cup of Clear Glue or Liquid Glitter Glue
- 1/2 cup of Water
- Food Coloring
- 1/2 teaspoon of Baking Soda (You can add more baking soda if you think the slime is too runny.)
- 1 Tablespoon of Saline Solution
- Star-shaped Patriotic Pony Beads

Directions for Making the Slime

The first thing they will need to do is place a 1/2 cup of clear glue in a bowl.

Then they will need to add 1/2 cup of water to the bowl. Children will need to blend this mixture together well.

Next several drops of food coloring need to be added to the mixture. If you are using colored glue, you may want to skip this step.

Then a 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda needs to be added to the mixture.

After adding the baking soda, children need to add 1 Tablespoon of saline solution.

The mixture will need to be stirred with a sturdy spoon and kneaded with your hands.

Finally, you will add the plastic stars to the mixture. You will want to add a different number of each of the colored stars to the slime. That way you will end up with a bar graph that doesn’t display the same number of stars for each color.

Exploring the Homemade Slime

Your children will definitely want time to explore the homemade slime. They will enjoy looking for the stars in slime as well as watching the stars slip down the slime back into the bowl.

Cleaning the Stars

Children can use a plastic spoon to scoop the stars out the slime. Then can drop them into a bowl of soapy water. The slime will slip off the stars easily after simply stirring the star-filled water with the spoon.

Once all the stars are slime free, they can be dried off with a paper towel.

Graphing the Stars

Children can use the dried stars to create a patriotic picture graph. You will need to print out a copy of the Homemade Patriotic Slime and Graphing Activity graphing sheet.

After placing the stars in the correct column on the graphing sheet, children can talk about what they see on the graph. They can share how many stars they have of each color. Children can share which color they have the most of. They can also share what color they have the least of.

If you like this slime activity, here are some more you will love:

Exploring the Five Senses with Jello Slime

Slime Themed Duck in the Truck Activity

How to Make Liquid Starch Slime Coding Activity

How to Make Slime with Saline Coding Activity

June 12, 2018 By Deirdre

Yesterday you learned how to make slime with liquid starch. Today’s coding activity walks children through how to make slime with saline. Your children are invited create an algorithm that walks them through how to make the slime. Then your children can create and play with the slime.

Getting Ready to Start the Activity

You will need to gather the following supplies for this slime activity:

Plastic bowl or container
Sturdy Spoon
1/2 cup of Clear Glue or Liquid Glitter Glue
1/2 cup of Water
Food Coloring
1/2 teaspoon of Baking Soda
1 Tablespoon of Saline Solution
One copy of the How to Make Slime with Saline Solution Algorithm Coding Worksheet

Making the Slime

You can have your children make the slime before or after they do the coding activity. Below you will find the steps they will need to follow learn how to make slime with a saline solution.

The first thing they will need to do is place a 1/2 cup of clear glue in a bowl.

Then they will need to add 1/2 cup of water to the bowl. Children will need to blend this mixture together well.

Next several drops of food coloring need to be added to the mixture. Children will want to make sure color is thoroughly mixed in.

Then a 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda needs to be added to the mixture.

After adding the baking soda, children need to add 1 Tablespoon of saline solution.

Finally, the mixture needs to be stirred with a sturdy spoon and kneaded with your hands.

We didn’t add anything to our slime. If you are looking for fun slime themes, you will want to check out A Year of Our Themed Best Slime Activities for Kids. You will find a year’s worth of fun themed slimes here.

Creating the Algorithm

Your children will start in the bottom left-hand corner of the worksheet. They will draw an up arrow in the start box. This will lead them to the bowl box.

Then they will need to decide whether to move up or go to the right to get to the add glue box. Some of your children will want to take the shortest route. Others will want to take the longer route. When they decide the route they want to take, they will place an arrow in the box with the bowl in it pointing the direction they have chosen to go.

Next, your children will need to decide what direction they will need to go to reach the glue. If they chose the longer route, they will need to place arrows in several boxes that will lead them to the glue bottle.

They will need to continue to connect the various step in the algorithm together with arrows until the reach box that says play with the slime.

If you like this slime activity, here are some more slime activities you will enjoy.

Exploring the Five Senses with Jello Slime

Slime Themed Duck in the Truck Activity

How to Make Liquid Starch Slime Coding Activity

How to Make Slime with Liquid Starch Algorithm Coding Activity

June 11, 2018 By Deirdre

I am going to give a presentation on teaching children to code offline in July. I thought it would be fun to share algorithm worksheet that featured slime. The thinking is that the teachers can help their children build the algorithm on paper. Then they can create the slime with them. I thought your children might enjoy learning about coding and making slime too.

This algorithm printable covers the basics of making slime with liquid starch. If you are looking for fun slime themes, you will want to check out A Year of Our Themed Best Slime Activities for Kids. You will find a year’s worth of fun themed slimes.

Wait! What is an algorithm? I tell my students that an algorithm is the series of steps needed to complete a task. Computer programmers or coders create the series of commands needed for a computer to complete a task.

Before You Start This Activity

I love to read my children a book based on the activity we will be doing. Horrible Harry and the Green Slime is a fun book to have your children read or to read to them before making slime.

Gathering the Supplies

You children will each need the following slime making supplies and a copy How to Make Slime with Liquid Starch Algorithm Coding Worksheet

1/2 cup clear glue
1/2 cup of water
1/4 cup of liquid starch
A few drops of food coloring
A small bowl or container
A sturdy spoon

Creating the How to Make Slime Algorithm

Your children will start in the bottom left-hand corner of the worksheet. They will draw an up arrow in the start box. This will lead them to the bowl box.

Your children continue connecting the steps in the algorithm with arrows until they get to the box labeled play with slime.

If you like this algorithm printable, here are some more I have created based on children’s books and science concepts.

Little Miss Muffet Coding Activity and Printable

Coding Activity- Going on a Bear Hunt

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Algorithm Activity

Gruffalo Coding Sheet

Coding the Planets in Order

Life Cycle of a Spider Coding Printable

Exploring the Five Senses with Edible Jello Slime

June 10, 2018 By Deirdre

We have started our summer vacation by exploring different kinds of slime. This fun activity featuring editable jello slime has been one of JDaniel’s favorites. Your children will probably love exploring editable jello slime with their five sense too. After they have explored the edible slime with their five senses, they can record their insights on this free Exploring the Five Senses with Jello Slime printable.

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If your children don’t have a lot of experience with slime, you may want to explore the book the Ultimate Slime Guide with them. It is filled with tons of ways to explore slime. Your children will also learn more about the properties of slime in the book.

Making the Jello Slime

This is how you make jello slime:

Supplies

1 cup Cornstarch

1 package of Sugar-Free Jello (This post from Little Bins for Little Hands will explain why it needs to be sugar-free jello.)

3/4 of Water Water

Flexible Plastic Cutting Board Mats(They help keep your table clean.)

Directions

Mix the jello powder with the cornstarch. Your children will want to stir the mixture about 30 times.
Then you will add a little bit of water to the mixture. Your children will want to stir until the water has been thoroughly absorbed.
When the mixture has become stiff, they will add a little more water.
Next, children can try to stir or knead the mixture. They can keep adding a little of the remaining water until they the mixture stretches a little.
Remind them to carefully add water, if they add too much they will create a gloppy mess.

Exploring the Slime with 5 Senses

You will need to walk your children through each explore. When they have completed each exploration, they will record their insights on the recording document. You may want to have them wipe off their hands after conduction the explorations that require touching the slime. They may also want to take a sip of water after tasting the slime.

Smell

Children can lift up the container of slime to their nose or bend their nose until it is close the container. Then they will need to take a deep breathe in. They will probably smell the flavor of the jello you used.

Taste

Children can dip a finger into the slime and taste it. Some children will taste the flavor of the jello. Other children may taste the cornstarch.

Sound/Hearing

Children may hear the sound of the slime dripping off their fingers. Other children may hear the slime breaking or pulling away as they lift it out of the container.

See

What your children see when they look at the slime, will depend on the texture of your slime. Have them use a magnifying glass to look at the slime and any air pockets in the slime.

Touch

The texture of your slime will affect what your children feel when they touch it. Our slime was thick and smooth. JDaniel lifted ours up rubbed his fingers in it before describing it.

If you like this STEM activity, here are some more you will love:

The Climbing Firefighter STEM Activity

How Pollination Works

Robo-Peter the Cat

Building a Garden Fence for Peter Rabbit

Growing Carrot Tops in Bottle Greenhouses

Slime Themed Duck in a Truck Fine Motor Activity

June 1, 2018 By Deirdre

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After reading through my friend Sarah’s new Ultimate Slime Book, I have been dying to make slime for JDaniel. You know I love to tie together books and learning activities. This fun slime activity features Sarah’s basic slime recipe and the book Duck in the Truck. It invites your children to use chopsticks to remove all the items that are stuck in the muck or homemade slime.

Making Sarah’s Slime

We made half a batch of the slime for our fine motor activity.

You will need to mix together the following:

1/2 cup of Liquid Starch
1/2 of White School Glue
1/4 of Water
Neon Blue Food Coloring (You could use brown to make the slime look muddy. We just like the neon blue color.)

Mix all the ingredients together.

Gathering the Fine Motor Activity Supplies

You will need farm animals like those found in the Safari Ltd Farm TOOB, a plastic frog, and a red truck. We didn’t have a frog or a red truck. The ones we used were cut out of a green and red plastic folder. (I really try to use items we have on hand a home for our projects.)

You will also need a plastic or styrofoam bowl and some chopsticks. You could use a larger container for this activity if you like. We used a small container so we wouldn’t have to chase the animals and the truck around it with the chopsticks.

Exploring the Fine Motor Activity

Your children will need to pick one of the objects out of the container at a time with the chopsticks. They will need to hold the chopsticks together with a pincer grasp. This is the same grasp they use when they are writing with a pencil.

If you like this book-themed learning activity, here are some more you will like:

Cowboy Riddles to Decode

Building Alphabet Letters on a Barn Door

Climbing Firefighter STEAM Activity

Let’s Make Robots That Look Like Robo-Pete the Cat

Dragons Love Tacos Themed Playdough Activity

Summer Recipes for Family Fun

July 5, 2014 By Deirdre

These wonderful summer recipes for family fun will be terrific to pull out when your children need something new to do. They would be great boredom busters or to explore during family time too. Each was shared on last week’s Sunday Showcase by some of you. Now all you have to decide is which summer recipes for fun your family would love to do.

Summer Recipes for Family Fun

Mini Monets and Mommies shared a really cool homemade glow in the dark paint. We are going to try it at my house.

Water shooter tie-dye outdoor fun was shared Fantastic Fun and Learning. The tie-dyed sheets they created would be great for picnics or outdoor story times.

Epic Fun for Kids has created a chocolate slime dough that they used to create a habitat from Star Wars. It look incredible!

Growing in God’s Grace had me craving homemade fudgecicles after reading their post. Be warned if you visit this post you will crave them too.

The Kid’s Activity Blog shared a recipe from their wonderful new book 101 Kids Activities That Are the Bestest, Funnest Ever!: The Entertainment Solution for Parents, Relatives & Babysitters!fizzy sidewalk paint that looks really wonderful. We have recently made sidewalk paint, but it didn’t fizz.

More Summer Recipes for Family Fun

JDaniel keeps asking them to make more confetti eggs with him. He really loves make them and throw them at his friends.

Sidewalk chalk has been another favorite at my house this summer. This post shares easy recipes for sidewalk chalk.

Brown cow floats are a hit with everyone. Actually if you don’t like brown cow floats you can make black cow, spotted cow, or orange cow floats instead.

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Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
Here Come the Girls
Inspiration Laboratories
JDaniel4′s Mom

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