Paint and more Paint

We started our day, by making our own puffy paint: 

1 tbsp each of  Flour and Salt

1tsp baking powder

2 Tbsp water

Food coloring

After the girls were done painting, their artwork went in the microwave for 20 seconds to make the paint puff and give it a dry scratchy texture. 

We then made some sidewalk paint by mixing water, cornstarch and food coloring. Got the idea here: http://pinkandgreenmama.blogspot.com/2009/07/color-my-driveway-cornstarch-sidewalk.html

 Our last craft was  making our own rainbow glue by adding food coloring to a half empty bottle of glue. Credit goes to: http://pinkandgreenmama.blogspot.com/2011/08/elmers-glue-rainbow-glue-recycle-those.html

For this last craft,  I hot glued pom-poms to tiny magnets and tried to get the girls to create images on our magnetic dry erase board. Unfortunately, the girls wanted nothing to do with it. We will have to revisit this at a later date, but here is a link for some great uses for this craft: http://engagingtoddleractivities.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/homemade-toy-magnetic-pompoms/