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Messy Play Madness – A Spur of the Moment Messy Play/Sensory Activitiy

Spur of the moment messy playAt lunchtime today Doodles and Oodles asked me if they could make Gloop.  I agreed immediately and started to get out the cornflour and paint etc. (see here for our gloop recipe). They then began shouting out other things that they would like to add to it.

So today we are sharing our spur of the moment messy play fun.  It was their little experiment to see what types of textures they could make using a variety of materials.

What we used:

  • Cornflour/cornstarch
  • Plain flour
  • Olive oil
  • Paint
  • Glitter
  • PVA glue
  • Mini pasta shells
  • Shredded dry noodles
  • Water
  • Animal toys
  • Smurfs
  • Wooden spoons, balloon whisk

 

What we did:

I’m going to let the pictures tell the story, but briefly, we took out our old baby bath and Doodles and Oodles gradually added the above ingredients as they saw fit!  They played and squished and poured and splashed for ages.  By the time they were finished they were like little Smurfs.  I had to strip them completely and carry them down to the shower to wash all the gooey, gloopy, lovely blue mess off!

Messy play exploring 1

They added the flour, cornflour, glitter, glue and paint to begin with!

Messy play 2

They spent quite some time growling at each other pretending to be gloop monsters!

More messy play

The more water they added the messier it became and that’s when the animals got thrown in!

even more messy play

They thoroughly enjoyed adding the pasta and noodles into the mix!  At first it was all crunchy but as the played the pasta and noodles started to soaked up some of the water and became soft and slimy and they were able to mould it.

the aftermath

The aftermath – a blue bath, a blue kitchen, 2 Smurf children in the shower, a sink full of plastic toys in need of a scrub!

Brilliant fun!

Ciara x

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39 responses to “Messy Play Madness – A Spur of the Moment Messy Play/Sensory Activitiy”

    • The messier the better in this house, they had so much fun. My 4yo is big into experimenting at the moment- every activity is a science experiment according to him. I love giving them free reign to explore their own ideas! Thanks for stopping by!

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  3. This looks like such a fantastic day of fun!

    On a side note – I really like that you blurred out your children’s faces. I try to get photos where my son’s face isn’t too visible, but then my angles end up weird. Haha. I should just blur it, but I hadn’t seen anyone else do that before, so I wasn’t sure if people would find it weird. Need to be decisive I suppose 🙂

    Anyhow, love this activity!

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    • It was such great fun, your little man would love it! Yes, I blur the faces using PicMonkey. Maybe I’m a little paranoid but I just prefer to keep them fairly anonymous. Have a great weekend, love your little farm idea, might try to use our farm animals that way next week instead of covering them in blue gloop! Lol

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    • I try to let them take the lead as much as possible but not always easy to let go of the control on my part!!! Great Blog Hop, thanks for visiting xx

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    • Sometimes I wish I was their age again to have all this messy fun!!! Mind you I’m having plenty of fun joining in with them! Thanks so much for visiting!

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  14. I really, really need to do this with my boys! I often let my OCD get in the way of what I know they would enjoy so much. The idea that we could be spontaneous and just get messy and enjoy ourselves is something important that I want them to claim. I will be trying this at home! Thank you for the reminder.

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  16. Oh my goodness, you have to be the coolest mom ever! I found this post from the HDYDI link party, and I’m so glad I checked it out! I still have our baby bathtub, so I think we are going to try it out this weekend. Although I’ll probably have them do it outside. I’m fine with messes, I just hate cleaning them up! Our kitchen would be covered in Gloop for a week before I finally got around to cleaning it! 🙂

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  17. Lady, I envy you. You are the coolest/bravest Mama ever to do the messy play on the spur of the moment 😉

    Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!

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  21. […] Slowly we added our water, mixing all the time until you have a lovely smooth but not too runny consistency.  As soon as you add the water you start to have lots of fun as this make gloop of oobleck.  We have had lots of fun with gloop in the past.  I f you would prefer not to use the glue you can stop at this stage and have lots and lots of  messy fun with gloop. […]

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