Chocolate Clay
10 ounces of chocolate chips, melted
1/3 cup light corn syrup
Wax paper
Add the melted chocolate to the corn syrup and mix well. Pour on wax paper and pat to inch thick. Let cool at room temperature until firm. Wrap well and store until needed. Cut into home made tootsie rolls. Use the pastel chips at cake decorating shops. These work well for other colours.
Outdoor Bubbles
Plastic Jar
Spoon
cup liquid dish soap
8 cups water
Bubble blower or straw
Pour all ingredients into jar and mix well. Go outside and blow your bubbles
Super Slime
Materials:
1 tbsp. liquid starch
2 tbsp. white glue(Elmer's)
3 drops food coloring (optional)
Plastic egg or screw top jar(baby food)
Bowl
Process:
1. Put starch in bowl.
2. Add glue and let set 5 minutes.
3. If desired, add colouring.
4. Mix until starch is absorbed and colour is spread smoothly. (Hint: The longer you mix, the better it gets.)
5. Store in plastic egg or small jar overnight before using to pick up pictures from comics.
6. Use to bounce, pick up pictures from comics or newspaper, and mold into shapes.
Hints:
1. If left in open air, it will melt, then turn hard.
2. Add 1 tsp more starch for a tougher, more rubbery, slime or putty.
3. Lasts several days if stored air tight.
Gingerbread Handprints
Note can make egg shapes or bunny outlines and decorate with appropriate icing and sprinkles.
Supplies:
1 Cup shortening
1 Cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 Cup molasses
2 Tablespoon vinegar
5 Cups sifted flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon each: ground ginger, cinnamon and cloves
1 package "red hots" candy
1 jar silver ball candy decorations
Thoroughly cream shortening, sugar, and salt. Add egg, molasses, and vinegar; mix well. Sift together dry ingredients. Add
to molasses mixture, mix well. Chill about 3 hours. Roll out, 1/4 in. thick, on lightly floured surface. Trace children's hands onto paper and cut out with scissors. Place paper hand on dough and cut around with a knife. Place on greased cookie sheet and let children decorate their own hands. Use "red hots" for fingernails, silver balls for rings, etc. Bake at 375 degrees for 6-8 minutes, cool on wire rack, makes about
15 hands.
Bottled Snowflakes
by Dorothy Morrison
You will need:
1 white pipe cleaner
length of twine
scissors
1 quart jar with a wide mouth
2 cups boiling water
6 tablespoons borax
1 pencil
Cut a white pipe cleaner into 3 equal lengths, twist them together in the center, then arrange the six legs so that they are equidistant from each other. Tie one end of the twine to a leg, and the other end to the middle of a pencil. (For a more ornate flake, tie the twine around the end of each leg in a continuous motion to make a center wheel). Set aside. Pour boiling water into the jar, then add the borax one tablespoon at a time, stirring to dissolve. (if a little borax settles to the bottom, there's no need to worry, just go on to the next step.) Submerge the pipe cleaner form in the solution and let the pencil rest on top of the jar. Leave the snowflake in the solution overnight. The next morning, you'll find it covered with tiny, sparkling crystals. Remove it from the jar, and hang it from the window to catch the sun.
from Yule: A Celebration of Light and Warmth
by Dorothy Morrison
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