Fun with goop

I was on leave today because Muffin had a really congested nose and that meant he couldn't sleep and couldn't feed very much. But I ended up also taking the opportunity to do messy play with the twins. For a while, I've been wanting to make goop for them. I've always liked letting them muck about with mixtures of things. And this time, it was cornflour and water. Corn flour on its own already feels different from flour which they've played with. According to Jordan it was 'nice' and 'cold'. When I poured in the water and started to mix the 2, she commented that it looked like vomit.

Evan claimed that the mixture felt 'funny'. I gave them spoons and they tried to scoop the mixture and some how it stretched and streaked. He was hesitant to get it on his hands although he was very fascinated that it dried up and caked almost instantly.



















For good measure, I put in colour and they had fun watching the food colouring dissolve into the mixture. As with each time that we let them muck about, it soon became an event of pouring everything onto the ground. Flour mixture and water. It drove Ee-Por crazy because both of them thought it hilarious to just run through the puddles of goopy muck. They realised on their own that the goopy much was much more slippery than just the bits that were just water, so they slid through it, jumped and splashed through it; basically making us fearful for them.


















Someone told me recently that with children, just giving them something to do entertains them. They don't really discern yet between 'work' and 'play'. So towards the end, I gave them a pail of water and a brush and told them they had to clean up. I suspect that was the most fun part of the activity because they started a water fight. When Evan 'accidentally' dumped a whole container of water onto Jordan, we could see how Jordan was trying to work out whether to be annoyed with her brother or to find it funny. Thankfully she chose the later. And she also decided to take the mickey out of it by wetting herself thoroughly.

Soon it became a case of let's see who could get more wet.








Of course, the older generation would baulk at the fact that they were dumping cold water onto themselves in chilly weather and would catch a cold from it. I hope not though because they really seemed to have so much fun and I didn't really want to have to stop them.

For those who want to know how to make goop-

1/2 cup cornflour
1/4 cup water.
Food colouring.

Apparently, if we add white glue to it, it becomes slime like ectoplasm. I totally forgot about that bit of it but I think it was okay because the twins had enough fun with what they had!


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