After seeing the sand piping bags at Irresistible Ideas for Play Based Learning, I knew it was a sensory activity that Henry would love to get messy doing. Minus the sand, we made our own flour piping bags.
After our Free Play : Stirring and Mixing activity, I couldn’t let Henry miss out on mixing together the flour and water.
Henry measured and scooped flour into a large bowl and added some lots of water.
Henry measured and scooped flour into a large bowl and added some lots of water.I poured some of the mixture into ziploc bags and added a bit of paint.
Sensory Play:
Henry squished the mixture together to mix the color in thoroughly.
Henry squished the mixture together to mix the color in thoroughly.
I snipped a corner off the bag.
The mixture was very runny, and ran out of the bag immediately.
Nevertheless, Henry squeezed it out and made large colored puddles.
When the red color was added to the blue, it didn’t mix together to make purple.
Instead, it created swirls of colors.
Glitter was added as a finishing touch. [Lots of glitter, the shaker is now empty.]
Henry noticed as some of mixture ran off the paper : “a river!”
The glitter showed the flow of the river.
Henry created his own rivers of glitter all over the paper.
Of course, this ended in one very sloppy mess!
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WOW – what fun MESSY art play. Way to go, mama, for letting the little oone explore!
How fun!! You are really brave to let him play like this inside the house:) Lucky boy!!
Love the addition of glitter! You are such a fun Mama! I think I finally need to add you to my favorite blog list!
what a WONDERFUL mess! I tried somehting similar with my little guy using squeeze bottles, but the baggies look like they would be much easier for him to squeeze. We'll have to give it a try!
We just did some of the mixing of our own, but I kept all the ingredients "edible" and my 4 year old had a huge blast with it.
Oh WOW what fun. It may not have been exactly the same as our Henry but you sure had just as much fun with your concoction as our children had with ours!
Donna
What gorgeous, glorious, messy, sensory fun!
Looks like Henry had a blast! Wonderful mess!
I just tweeted this with the hashtag #weteach and #ece. How fun!
Flowing rivers of glitter? You are one brave mother! What a lucky little boy you have.
A piping bag looks like such fun!
we too made piping bags last month and had a grt time. i was reading ur blog today and realised that i saw this post earlier and got the idea of making piping bags aftr seeing henry having a fun time. thanks for the inspiration. next time we too use glitter.have a nice weekend!
what a great idea! what's it like when it finally dries? do you let it dry or do you toss it, going for the process rather than the end product?
I was wondering if the “creation” would dry, too.
Anybody??