Toothpaste!

Hi,

It's Sunday again. Do you still know what this means? It means we had Science fun :) I've been reading about the elephant toothpaste experiment everywhere. Do you know this phenomenon when you think about something for the first time or out of the blue and then you find the whole universe thinking about it with you at the same time? To do this experiment, you have to use Hydrogen peroxide. All of a sudden, the dollar store had it in its new arrivals and I was so glad. Unfortunately, it has 3% only which is relatively week but it will do. So, you will need:

• a soda bottle
• hydrogen Peroxide
• dish washing soap
• warm water
• dry yeast
• food color (optional)

Food color

Add 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide

1 squirt of dish soap

Mix well for 30 seconds

Add 2 tablespoons of warm water.

Add 1 table spoon of dry yeast to the water.

Stir well.

Add to the bottle.

Look at that expression :)

Here, she told me to make it stop, lol.

Touching it.

We did the experiment one more time but this time using red food color and doubling all the ingredient quantities.

Don't you love it?

I always give instructions or set the rules before we begin but with this, I did not. I wanted to know how Sarah will react with it. I know it might be obvious to everyone but I'm still exploring my kids' potentials. Anyway, Sarah did it all on her own and I was so pleased. I even prepared dinner while she was busy doing it but at the beginning she laid all the panels in front of her and added a piece here and there. She kept doing this for 15 minutes and then she told me she wants to do the sun. So, I took away the other panels for her to be able to focus and that was all the help I offered.

Then, the fish :)

Getting to ground level to see which part is missing ;)

And then, a flower.

And finally, a butterfly :)

Now, Farida's turn. I introduced our treasure box today. She was so excited about it, she has very curious eyes :)

Of course, you can guess who was standing beside her,

ready to jump in and play with the box.

Farida so excited to look at the mirror.

How am I supposed to hold all these with my tiny hands, mama?

Here, she was banging her hands over and over and over.

Tasting the sponge. 

By the way, her fingers couldn't hold the bottle with the rice.

Can I eat this stone?

Please note, you have to do this under very close supervision. Do what you feel comfortable in doing and leave what you don't. 

Thank you for reading, come back soon and I promise, we'll have more fun :)

Love,

Baby's Treasure Box & Project in Progress!

Hi,
I have to admit, I got inspired by the link you gave me, Allison. If you want to visit the original post link that got me inspired, it is here and it is awesome. So, I wanted to do my own :) This box is Farida's, I know Sarah will be interested in it too (at least for a while) and I'll let her explore it until she gets bored of it ;)

Here is what is inside:

• a safe mirror.
• pom pom
• a plastic spoon
• a soft brush
• a gem
• a stone
• a rattle
• a foam number"2"
• Infantino Lil Toot Toot baby Toy
• a juice plastic bottle with colored rice instead
• a burp cloth
• Infantino Twist & Match Rattle baby Toy 
• a ribbon
• a felt piece
• a rubber duck
• a scrubber sponge

I intend to add some stacking blocks, felt books & a sorting box in the future. I'm so excited to introduce it to Farida.

Now, my project! Well, it is not really a project but it is DIY. I wanted to do a geoboard and I didn't want to pay that much amount for it. I saw it on pinterest, I repinned it (you can check on my pinterest) and started doing it. So far, I paid nothing ;)

A kitchen wood carving board, it was an extra one.

Painted with black acrylic colors.

The outlines.

Now, all I need is to find some safe long nails. I need exactly 30 and I have only 22 at home so I need to go and buy some and this will be the only cost :) I will show you a picture once our geoboard is finished.

Thank you.

Love,