Well, Friday was the big day -- Dr. Seuss's birthday celebration! The kids had fun making a Green Eggs & Ham craft using a shaving cream and glue mixture for the egg whites and various other materials to complete their plate. We also had some real green eggs & ham for lunch, of course, and then graphed our results of who liked them, or didn't like them! I am happy to report the the "like" column won! :) For snack time, we had some green vanilla pudding with a vanilla wafer cookie pressed into the middle to look like an egg.
After hearing the story of Bartholomew & the Oobleck, we had to make some Oobleck of our own (using cornstarch and colored water). In the story, the oobleck was green, so I put out some droppers in blue water and some yellow water and the kids got to make their own green. Of course, they had just as much fun playing in the finished product as they did mixing it up. :) "Oobleck" is such a fun substance because once you have added just the right amount of liquid to the cornstarch, the mixture takes on both solid and liquid properties at the same time. It looks liquid, and will drip from your fingers when left alone, but when rubbed or squeezed, it takes on the properties of a solid and will crack and clump.
After hearing the story of Bartholomew & the Oobleck, we had to make some Oobleck of our own (using cornstarch and colored water). In the story, the oobleck was green, so I put out some droppers in blue water and some yellow water and the kids got to make their own green. Of course, they had just as much fun playing in the finished product as they did mixing it up. :) "Oobleck" is such a fun substance because once you have added just the right amount of liquid to the cornstarch, the mixture takes on both solid and liquid properties at the same time. It looks liquid, and will drip from your fingers when left alone, but when rubbed or squeezed, it takes on the properties of a solid and will crack and clump.
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