| Craft: Colored Bubbles | | | | Either the first one back wins or set a time limit and |
| Activities: Flyswatter Bubbles, Cotton Ball Pickup, | | | | whoever gets the most cotton balls. You can also |
| Balloon Water Fun | | | | play with teams!ACTIVITY: Balloon Water FunNeed: |
| Snack: Chewy Popcorn Balls | | | | waterguns |
| Reading Selection: The Twenty-One Balloons by | | | | balloons |
| William Pene du BoisCRAFT: Colored BubblesNeed: | | | | pennies or small objects |
| dishwashing detergent | | | | string |
| food coloring or washable paint | | | | markers |
| a straw | | | | clothes lineDirections: |
| paper | | | | Children will love these fun targets they can squirt |
| shallow panDirections: | | | | with water guns. Insert a few pennies in a balloon. |
| Mix about 1/2 dishwashing detergent, and 1/3 of | | | | Blow it up and attach a string. Tie the string to a |
| water in a shallow pan(cold or hot)mix any kind of | | | | clothes line. To make it more fun, faces or bulls eyes |
| food coloring until you get the ideal color you want. If | | | | may be drawn on the balloon. Hang many balloons of |
| you use paint, make sure it is washable. Go outside | | | | varying sizes and string lengths to increase the |
| with the pan full of the colored bubble mixture. tip | | | | challenge. Stand back and take aim!SNACK: Chewy |
| one end of the straw in the pan, lift it up, and blow | | | | Popcorn BallsNeed: |
| through the other side to create a bubble, then | | | | 1/2 cup sugar |
| slowly pick up the paper and pop the bubble on it. | | | | 1/2 cup light corn syrup |
| Keep doing this with different colors of paint and you | | | | 4 Tbs. margarine |
| will get a great colorful bubble print picture!You can | | | | 1/2 tsp. salt |
| also use the straw to blow a lot of bubbles in the | | | | 8 cups popped popcornDirections: |
| pan and then place a piece of paper over the top to | | | | Place the sugar, light corn syrup, margarine, and salt |
| 'absorb' the bubbles. It will leave a nice | | | | in a large saucepan. Cook over medium-high heat, |
| print!!ACTIVITY: Flyswatter BubblesNeed: | | | | stirring constantly, until the mixture reaches a steady |
| clean fly swatter | | | | simmer. Add the popped popcorn to the mixture, |
| bubble solutionDirections: | | | | stirring until all the popcorn in entirely coated. Remove |
| Fill a shallow plastic bowl with bubble stuff and | | | | from the stove and let cool. Fill a medium-sized bowl |
| provide each child with a new clean flyswatter. Have | | | | with water. Dip your hands in the water and shape |
| them dip the end in and then swish it through the air | | | | the popcorn into balls, about the size of a tennis ball. |
| creating tons of bubbles!ACTIVITY: Cotton Ball | | | | Place the balls on a sheet of wax paper and after |
| PickupNeed: | | | | they are completely cool, place each in a plastic bag |
| Cotton balls | | | | or wrap in plastic wrap.Reading Selection: The |
| vaseline | | | | Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois This is |
| string (or handkerchief)Directions: | | | | a great children's story to go along with these |
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| their pockets and vaseline on their nose. When the | | | | activities for parents, teachers and caregivers. Please |
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| down and picks up the cotton ball with their nose. | | | | |