Magic Mud

This was so cool! This activity lasted for well over an hour and it kept Tate's attention the longest! This will definitely go into my bag of tricks! We had already been playing with this for almost an hour when Nathan got home from school and he joined right in, taking it outside and playing with it for another half an hour at least! Definitely great for kids of all ages!

1 cup of water
food coloring
2 cups of corn starch

*Pour water into a bowl.
*Add food coloring and stir until mixed thoroughly
*Add 2 cups of corn starch
*Mix well. This will take some effort! It is not easy to mix, but once mixed it is a lot of fun!

This activity is a great way to play with solid vs. liquid. If you gently touch the mixture it reacts like a liquid, but if you strike the mixture hard to reacts like a solid. My kids were amazed at how it could be so gooey one second and hard as a rock the next!

Clean up is easy. If any gets out of the bowl is dries quickly and can be swept up. Any other residue is quickly cleaned up with a wet rag. I should have realized ahead of time that so much of the mixture was going to end up outside the bowl, but I didn't. Next time I may put down a layer of our craft paper to help clean up even easier! And I will definitely double the recipe next time to make enough for each kid to have their own bowl or cookie sheet.