Ooey Gooey *Edible* Slime!!

A few days ago I came across a blog post at Blog Me Mom for 1ingredient edible slime.  This was perfect for us because lets face it, with a 14 month old in the house EVERYTHING ends up in his mouth.

Ingredients:

• Fiber supplement with Psyllium (For orange slime, plain Metamucil will work, but if you want colored slime, you need to buy a clear store brand that has the ingredient Psyllium)
• water
• food coloring
• microwave safe bowl

This recipe is seriously so easy!!  Take 1 tablespoon of fiber supplement, add your food coloring, mix in 1 cup of water and pop into the microwave for 5 minutes.  Be sure to stay by the microwave because the mix will bubble up a lot and you want to make sure it doesn't spill over.

Here is what our mix started out like.  I went to two stores and could not find a clear supplement that also contained Psyllium so I ended up purchasing the store brand orange flavored stuff.  I decided to try out coloring it anyways and I'm not too disappointed by the results.

I tried to get a picture of it bubbling up but I didn't have much luck.  It goes down pretty quickly when you open the microwave.

 

This was our first go around and I left it in the microwave for 5 minutes.  After 5 minutes this is what it looked like.

 

Zach loved playing with it but I think it could have cooked a little longer.  It wasn't "sticky" exactly but the pieces did seem to cling to the skin.  I also added WAY too much food coloring and Zach ended up looking like a smurf.





Here is the best part...he tried to eat it and I didn't have to worry!!  Such a great feeling.

 

Tonight, I gave the recipe a go for the second time.  Samantha requested pink slime but it didn't turn out pink unfortunately, it was more of a dark purple.  I made it the same way as yesterday but cooked it for 7 minutes instead of 5.  The bowl is significantly cleaner than my bowl from yesterday.  While playing my skin did get little flecks of slime here and there but nothing like the blue goo.  This time was so much better than yesterday.

 

 

Besides toying with the cook time, you can also adjust the amounts of fiber supplement and water to get different consistencies of goo.  We have that on our list of things to try and will be sure to post again once we have tried them all!!

 

While Samantha was busy with her slime this evening, Zachary was off having a nice chat with his Babu in Chicago.

 

I guess he had enough after yesterday!!







Cloud Dough

We've been stuck in the house all day today since Samantha is still "sick".  I just don't get it!  She woke up with a temperature of 99.4 and by this evening it's back up to 102 again.  She is acting almost completely normal though!  This is day 5 of the fever so I think I will finally bite the bullet and call the pediatrician in the morning.  I'm not feeling optimistic though since the theme of most fever visits is "it's a virus" and we get sent right back home to wait it out.

Earlier today a friend posted on facebook about making fake snow and I thought it looked fun.  Once Chris got home from work I decided to head to the store to pick up some ingredients to make a few different sensory mixtures.  We didn't have enough of any one ingredient at home so I had to buy them all, but it was under $10 to make all 3.  Once I got home I let Samantha look at all the pictures online and she chose to make cloud dough.  It was super simple to make with only 2 ingredients - flour and baby oil.

Samantha enjoyed helping me to pour the flour and oil into the bowl and she happily let me mix it for her.  I didn't do a whole lot of research on cloud dough, and the recipe I found didn't include a picture so I had no clue what it was supposed to look like.  It called for 4 cups flour and 1/2 cup water which came out very crumbly so I just kept on adding oil.  I think I used up almost half the bottle, lol.  Afterwards I googled cloud dough and it seems that the original consistency was okay, but it still worked well with the extra oil.

Samantha played with the dough for about 30 minutes until a neighbor came over and after that she moved on to watching a "sinsess" movie before bed.  I think her favorite part was using a 1/4 cup measuring cup to build little disks in the bowl.  My favorite part was the addicting baby oil scent.  I could smell that all day long...or any other baby product really.  So yummy!!  I think I might try adding food coloring next time to give it a fun color!  I put a lid on the bowl so we can play with it later and I am hoping this lasts a while. Once she tires of the cloud dough we will move on to our other two sensory mixtures!

What are your favorite mixture recipes?