First use the card-stock and tape to decorate your rocket anyway you would like (we cut out four fins for the sides and a cone for the top). After you're done with that fill a quarter of your bottle with water. Take the cork and press your needle adapter to your pump all the way through it. Next place the cork inside the mouth of the bottle and attach the back of the needle adapter to your pump. Start pumping air into the bottle, making sure to aim it away from you and anyone else, after a few seconds you should have liftoff!
Having fun with paint and marbles!!! All you need is some liquid paints, construction paper (any color), a baking sheet, tape, and a marble. Just take the construction paper and tape it to your baking sheet (just 2 small pieces will do for each side). Place a couple dollops of paint anywhere on the construction paper you like. Then place the marble on the construction paper and start tilting and moving the baking sheet around to get the marble rolling. Do this until the marble is no longer making a trail of paint. Luckily we did this on the porch since the boys got excited and the marble went flying out of the baking sheet a couple times!
The dome requires 25 newspaper logs. Each log consists of 4 sheets of newspaper stacked on top of each other and rolled together. Just set the pencil in one corner and roll up the sheets diagonally. The pencil is just used as a guide, so try not to roll it up too tight, you want it to be able to slide out after you've rolled the papers. Then make sure to tape it so it doesn't came apart. Repeat these instructions until you have 25 logs.
Take the entire pattern you just made out of newspaper logs and stand it up very carefully so you can attach the ends to each other, creating the base for your structure. When you have the ends attached and it's standing up on its own, get out the 5 logs you set aside. There are 5 points on the top of the base, place each extra log at these points and tape them in place. After you have them taped to the base, take the ends that are loose and tape them together so that they come to a point at the top of the structure.
Materials:
First mix the detergent, paint, and water into the bowl until it is well blended. Place one end of the straw into the soap-paint mixture and gently blow until bubbles start to overflow the bowl. After that lower the paper onto the bubbles very gently and remove when you get close to the top of the bowl. At first the print will look light, but after a few minutes the colors will get brighter. You can prepare as many soap-paint solutions as you want to make multicolored prints (my boys just wanted one color each). We also tried taking spoonfuls of the bubbles & splattering them onto the paper and blowing them off to create different designs. We made 6 different prints in all and every one was completely different than the other. It had the boys very fascinated as they tried to control the outcome of their designs.
We'll start out with the bath crayons, since they take more time. All you need is a bar of soap, a cheese grinder, medium sized bowl, warm water, ice cube tray, and food coloring. Grind down the soap bar with the cheese grinder into the bowl. Then add about a 1/4 cup of warm water to the soap flakes and stir till it gets to a consistency were you can mold it with your hands. After that you scoop out an amount big enough to fill an ice cube tray, add food coloring to it and start kneading it till the color is well mixed (you might prefer to wear gloves if you're worried about getting food coloring on your hands). Place the well colored soap mold into an empty slot on the ice tray and repeat till all the soap is gone (We filled 10 slots on the tray). Now just wait for the soap crayons to dry (about 2 day) and pop them out just like you would ice cubes.
Now we will make some bath paints, which is extremely easy, cheap, and fast to do! All you need is shaving cream, a muffin pan, food coloring, and a spoon. First fill each slot in your pan with shaving cream (all I had was the gel kind and it worked fine). After that add different color food coloring to each slot and mix them well with your spoon. The kids can use paint brushes, their fingers, or anything they please to make amazing designs all over the bathtub walls that can be rinsed off when bath time is all done.
