Messy Play Madness – A Spur of the Moment Messy Play/Sensory Activitiy
At 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!
They added the flour, cornflour, glitter, glue and paint to begin with!
They spent quite some time growling at each other pretending to be gloop monsters!
The more water they added the messier it became and that’s when the animals got thrown in!
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 – 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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I love how you let them add what they wanted to see what would happen! It sounds like delightfully messy fun!
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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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This is so great! I love that they wanted to add different items to the gloop. Thanks for visiting my blog!
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They had do much fun! They love experimenting! Thank you for visiting mine! Have a lovely weekend!
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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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My toddler would just love this! Whenever he wants to help in the kitchen, I give him flour, water and add some food colour 🙂
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Don’t children just love mixing up messy concoctions! Thanks for visiting!
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This looks like such good fun! I love messy play, but we’ve not done any in ages. Must rectify that! Thanks for the gloop recipe. #weekendblogbop
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Hope you enjoy it, we had such good fun with it! Thanks for popping over and for following! Have a great weekend!
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Wow, it looks like they had great fun!
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They had a great time! Thanks for stopping by! Have a lovely weekend!
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This looks fab mess = fun x #weekendbloghop x
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Brilliant fun, the messier the better! Thanks for hopping over!!! Have a great weekend!
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this looks like great fun. cant beat a bit of messy play! #weekendbloghop
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I’m still finding noodles and goopy blue pasta in the shower after showering them down after all the fun! Thanks for visiting!
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This looks like the kind of thing my toddler would love. We regularly use our old baby bath for washing animals and giving the cars a carwash. Lovely pictures! x
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Thank you, we had great fun! The baby bath is my little girl’s favourite toy at the moment!!!! X
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Looks like so much fun! I love the fact you let the children take the lead in this. Must do more messy play with Cameron!
Thanks for linking up with the #WeekendBlogHop
Laura x x x
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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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Wow! What a lot of sensory, messy exploratory fun. I bet they had a whale of a time!
Thanks for linking #LetKidsBeKids
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They had a really great time, great link up and love your blog!
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Haha! That is so cute! Looks like they had tons of fun!
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Thanks for visiting, they had soooo much fun! so did I hehehehehe 🙂
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That really does look so much fun. Freedom to be messy is the best!
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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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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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Thanks for visiting Katy, hope you have fun!!!!
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Oh my gosh, this looks like so much fun – the ultimate in messy play!
#WeekendBlogHop
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Absolutely brilliant fun! Thanks for stopping by!
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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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Have fun Sarah if you try it. I do a lot of our messy play outside too, thanks for visiting
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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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Thank you! 🙂
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Oh how we love unexpected messy play over here. This looks like they had a wonderful time. I can just hear the giggles.
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