Apple Dip

1/2 Cup Creamy P Butter
1 8oz. Vanilla Yogurt
1/8 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 cup Thawed Frozen Whipped Topping

Apples or Pears for dipping

*Blend all with whisk but fold in the whipped topping, you really cant make it incorrectly.


I doubled everything but the yogurt and added way more cinnamon so whatever.

Last night was awesome!!! Thank you so much!

tiffany

Glowing Jell-O Recipe

How to Make Glowing Jell-O

By Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D., About.com Guide

It's incredibly easy to make Jell-O™ or other gelatin glow under a black light. Here's what you do.

Glowing Jell-O Materials

• package of Jell-O or other gelatin
• tonic water
• black light

Make the Jell-O

1. Basically you just follow the directions on the package, except use tonic water instead of water.
2. For a small package, the usual directions would be to heat 1 cup of tonic water to boiling.
3. Mix the boiling tonic water and Jell-O until the powder is completely dissolved.
4. Stir in another cup of tonic water.
5. Pour the liquid into a pan or bowl.
6. Refrigerate the Jell-O until is has set.
7. You can use cookie cutters to make shapes out of the gelatin, if desired.
8. Shine a black light on the Jell-O to make it glow.

No matter what flavor/color of Jell-O you use, it will glow bright blue under the black light. This is the fluorescence of the quinine in the tonic water. Quinine also gives tonic water a distinctive bitter flavor which you will also taste in the gelatin. If you don't like the taste you can lessen it by using half tonic water and half tap water in the recipe. Either sugar-free or regular tonic water works fine for this recipe.

Make & design Clay Dough

Ingredients: 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup salt, 2 tablespoons cream of tartar, 1 cup water, 2 tablespoons cooking oil

Stir together flour, salt, and cream of tartar in a saucepan.  Then add the water and cooking oil.  Put the pan over medium heat, and cook for 3-5 minutes.  Stir the mixture constantly until it looks like mashed potatoes.  Dump the clay out on a sheet of waxed paper, but wait until the clay is cool enough to touch.  Roll out the play clay to a layer about 1/4 inch thick.  Use cookie cutters to make assorted shapes.  Use a straw or pencil to put a hole in the top to make an ornament or make a star award to tie with ribbon to give to the "star" of the day at your house!  Let the cutouts air dry for 24 hours on a wire wrack.  Paint with poster and write names on with glitter markers.  Tie a ribbon through the hole.  Use your imagination to make all sorts of fun things with this dough!  So fun to then paint them and design them the way you like.  Make a star award for each kid.  Make fun name stars to hang with ribbon to decorate their room, put one letter on each star or design and hang them with ribbon in their room.  Such a cute, cheap decoration!

Egg Dye

What You Need:

    * 1/4 teaspoon food coloring

    * 3/4-cup hot water

    * One-tablespoon vinegar

What You Do:

·      Measure liquids into a bowl. Separate into small bowls. Add food coloring to each mixture. Soak hard-boiled eggs in dye.

Pasta Dye

Pasta Dye
What You Need:

* 1/2 cup rubbing alcohol
* Food coloring

What You Do:

* Mix alcohol and food coloring in bowl. Add small amounts of any type of pasta to liquid and gently stir. Dry on newspapers covered with wax paper.

****This recipe is for Art Only Do not allow children to eat pasta or drink alcohol**

Pasta Dye

Pasta Dye

Submitted By Cindy

What You Need:

    * 1/4 Cup Rubbing Alcohol

    * 1 tablespoon food coloring

    * 2 Cups Pasta

    * 1 quart ziplock freezer bag

What You Do:

   1. Pour alcohol and food coloring in bag and mix together

   2. Add pasta to bag mix all together.

   3. Let set for an hour, then turn over and let set for 30 minutes more.

   4. Pour out onto news paper to dry.

   5. If not dark enough, repeat process.

Slimy Things

Gunk

What You Need:
• One Part Cornstarch
• One Part Water
What You Do:
• Mix and color with food color or Tempera paint.

Blubber

What You Need:
• One-cup water
• ½ cup glue
• Two Cups Borax
What You Do
• Mix ½ -cup water with ½ cup glue In a separate container, mix ½ cup water with the Borax (in the laundry detergent aisle). Now, stir the Borax mixture while slowly adding the glue mixture. It should immediately come together to make blubber If it isn't quite right try adding more of the Borax and water.

Flubber

What You Need:
• Two cups Glue
• Food Coloring
• Four tablespoons Borax
• Warm water
What You Do
• In one bowl mix in 1 1/2 cups of warm water, Glue, and food coloring. In a separate bowl mix in Borax with 1 1/3 cup of warm water. Pour the glue mixture into the borax mixture. Do not mix or stir it will form on its own. Store in plastic Baggies.

Blubberish Goop

What You Need:
• Two cups water
• 1/2-cup cornstarch
• Food coloring
What You Do:
• Boil water in saucepan add cornstarch stirring until smooth. Add food coloring and stir. Remove from heat and cool. Make sure your children play with this on a flat plastic like surface (table, linoleum floor, etc).

Goop

What You Need:
• One part Liquid starch
• Two parts white glue
• Food coloring
What You Do:
• Add starch to glue until mixture becomes a workable ball. Store in refrigerator in a covered container.

Slime

What You Need:
• One box Ivory Soap flakes
• Gallon Water
What You Do:
• Beat together with a mixer. Makes about 5 gallons

Color Sand

How to Color Sand

From your Florida for Visitors Guide

So you've brought home a bucket of sand from the beach. What do you do now? Color it and use it in a fun craft project!

Difficulty Level: Easy    Time Required: 30 Minutes +

Here's How:

   1. Fill paper cups half full of sand.

   2. Add water to cups to completely cover sand.

   3. Add food coloring to get the desired color.

   4. Stir with plastic spoon.

   5. Let set for 15 minutes.

   6. Pour off water.

   7. Spoon sand onto paper towels.

   8. Spread out and allow to dry.

Tips:

1.     Drying times vary. If you are using glue with your craft, you will want to allow the sand to dry completely.

Colored Sugar

How To Make Colored Sugar

Colored sugars are great for decorating cookies, cakes and other baked goods, but they cost way more than they should. Learn how to color your own sugars, and cut your baking costs considerably.
Difficulty: Easy
Time required: 5 minutes
Here's How:
1. Place sugar on a piece of waxed paper.
2. Add a drop of food coloring and mix until the color is evenly distributed throughout the sugar.
3. Continue to add food coloring one drop at a time until you are satisfied with the color.
4. Use immediately, or allow the sugar to dry and store in an air-tight container.
Tips:
1. If your sugar comes out darker than you'd like it to be, simply add more sugar to the mix.
2. You can also use this technique to color coconut.
What You Need:
• Granulated sugar

Coolest Bubble Recipes for HUGE Soap Bubbles

Have fun making your own bubble solution with these fun-to-experiment-with bubble recipes. Commercial solutions may be fine for general use, but a bunch of bubble-crazed kids trying to blow really big bubbles requires lots of solution which can get quite expensive.

Joy and Dawn (made in the USA) are considered the best detergents to use in the bubble solution. Ivory and Palmolive are also OK. But climatic conditions vary and take a big effect, so you'll need to do a bit of experimenting with your bubble recipe a few days prior to the party. The secret ingredient for sturdy, colorful bubbles is Glycerine (available at most pharmacies). Glycerine is a bit expensive, so you can try also experimenting with Karo Syrup (available at the grocery store). Soft water is good for bubbles. Any water containing high levels of iron is bad for bubbles. To get the best mixture, try using distilled water. But first try it with the tap water at your house (and you may be one of those lucky people who have a built in bubble water faucet…)

Maya (my daughter) just about to pop a Monster Bubble made with a clothes-hanger wand!

Gently stir the ingredients together (avoid making a lot of foam) and store in a sealed container overnight (the solution seems to get better with age).

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Here are a few bubble solution recipes to get you started:

Recipe 1
Dawn Ultra or Joy Ultra - 1 part
Distilled Water - 15 parts
Glycerine or White Karo Syrup - 1/4 part

Recipe 2
Joy - 2/3 cup
Water - one gallon
Glycerine - three tablespoons

Recipe 3
Regular Dawn or Joy - 1 part
Distilled Water - 10 parts
Glycerine or White Karo Syrup - 1/4 parts

Link http://www.coolest-kid-birthday-parties.com/bubble-recipes.html

Play Dough

Kids can play with play dough for a very long time. I have tones of cookie cutters play dishes that I would pour out on the table and they would play for hours.

This was my favorite with my kids.

Cooked Play Dough
3 cups flour
1 cup salt
6 teaspoons cream of tartar
3 cups water
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
Food coloring
Mix flour, salt, and cream of tartar in a large saucepan. Blend water and oil together in a bowl. Add to the saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until it thickens. Add several drops of food coloring until you get the right color. Cook for about five minutes. Take the play dough out of the saucepan and put it on a cutting board or counter and knead for a few minutes. Add flour if it's too sticky.
This play dough should last around three months if you keep it sealed in an airtight container or plastic ziplock bag. It's so smooth and fun to play with when it's still warm.


No Fuss Play Dough
1 cup cold water
1 cup salt
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
2 cups flour
2 tablespoons cornstarch
Food coloring
In a large bowl, mix together water, salt, oil and a few drops of food coloring. Mix flour and cornstarch and add 1/2 cup at a time, stirring constantly (you may need a little more or a little less than 2 cups flour so make sure you stir in until it is the right consistency). Knead for a few minutes with flour on your hands.



Oatmeal Play Dough
1 cup flour
1 cup water
2 cups oatmeal
Mix everything together in a large bowl. Then knead for a few minutes. This play dough has a nice lumpy texture.


Smelly Tip: For nice smelling play dough, add a few drops of vanilla extract, almond extract, or peppermint extract to any of these play dough recipes.
Also according to Courtnee "a package of flavored Kool-Aid will add smell to the playdough, then you are working with manipulation, touch and smell senses" for a multi-sensory play experience.

Homemade Clay Recipes

Baked Craft Clay
4 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 1/2 cups water
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Food coloring
1 egg, beaten

Mix together and knead until smooth. Separate into parts and add a few drops of different colors of food coloring. Make shapes and brush egg over the top. Put shapes on a cookie sheet and bake in the oven at 300F degrees for about one hour until the clay is golden. Seal with shellac to make shiny. Paint them for fun.

No Bake Craft Clay
2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 cup water
Food coloring
Mix together and add food coloring. Refrigerate for a few hours. Store in airtight container or plastic ziplock bag.



Homemade Clay
2 cups salt
3/4 cup water
1 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup water

Mix salt and 3/4 cup water in a saucepan over medium heat for about 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Add cornstarch and 1/2 cup water. Stir and heat again on medium heat until smooth and thick. Refrigerate for a few hours. Store in airtight plastic ziplock bag.


Cinnamon Apple Clay

1 cup applesauce
1 cup flour
1 cup cinnamon
1/2 cup white school glue
Food coloring

Mix together in a bowl and add food coloring. Refrigerate for a few hours until the clay is firm.

Gelatin Plastic

It's called Gelatin Plastic I have tried another recipe but this is the one I got to work for me.

I put just over 1/2 cup of water in a measureing cup and put into the microwave till it boiled.

Then added food coloring and mixed in 5tsp of gelatin

I lined a paper plate with plastic wrap and poured the mixture on it.

I let it set for about 5 hours before cutting mine with cookie cutters and I used a straw to make a small hole for hanging it.

Pretty Plastic Light Catchers

by Leslie Garisto Pfaff 

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Weekend Project

By adding a very small amount of water to gelatin, kids can create a simple plastic that hardens into colorful window decorations. Gelatin is formed from collagen, a protein made of tiny fibers that's essential for keeping cells stuck together. As the water evaporates, it leaves behind a product that is lightweight and strong but without any of the oil-based chemicals used in many factory-made plastics. The bonus: It glimmers and shimmers in the sun.

Materials

• Small saucepan
• 3/4 cup water
• Small spouted measuring cup
• 4 envelopes unflavored gelatin
• Food coloring
• 4 disposable plastic plates (we used 9-inch)
• Glitter (optional)

• Scissors
• Hole punch
• Parchment paper
• Heavy books for weighting
• Markers (optional)
• String, ribbon, or fishing line

Instructions

1. Boil 3 tablespoons of the water and pour it into the measuring cup. Add 1 envelope of gelatin and a few drops of food coloring. Stir the mixture slowly until it's combined. Let it sit for about a minute, then stir it again to minimize air bubbles.
   
2. Pour the mixture onto a plastic plate. If you like, sprinkle glitter on top of the gelatin, or add one or two drops of different-colored food coloring and swirl with a toothpick to make a marbled pattern.
   
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 with the remaining envelopes of gelatin, varying the shades of food coloring each time.
   
4. Let the gelatins dry until hardened, at least overnight. Peel them off the plates, then cut them into shapes with scissors. Using a hole punch, make holes at the top of them.
   
5. If your light catchers start to curl, wrap them in a sheet of parchment paper, then place them between two heavy books. When they're flat, use markers to draw on them, if you like.
   
6. Suspend each from a string, ribbon, or fishing line and hang in a sunny window.