A Tub Full of Goop – Oobleck Recipe
It’s one part science, 1 part magic, 1 part sensory play and 2 parts fun!
It’s begins as two simple ingredients – wet and dry, corn flour and water.
Mix them together and at first it just looks like a tub of mess… but sink your hands in. Go on… I know you want to.
Squeeze the ooey gooey goopiness and it suddenly feels hard in your hand. Open your fingers and it magically turns to liquid again and oozes back into the tub.
For little hands this is a fun sensory experience, but for older hands this is science and magic! There was much talk about mixing, consistency, ingredients, measuring, solutions, etc…
Individual Goop Recipe
For each child:
1 cup of corn flour
1/4-1/2 cup of water.
Give each child a container or tub to mix in. Pour water into the cornflour a little at a time mixing as you go. Add water until the mixture is quite wet, but not watery. You may need to add a little more water or corn flour as you go.
This mix can be quite messy to play with, but if you let it dry you can sweep or vaccum up the dried corn flour quiet easily and it washed off hands and out of clothes without issue.
Now pour and squelch and make a mess till your hearts content!
We recently had two large trays of goop at a combined birthday party for our 3 and 5 year old. All the children at the party were cousins ranging in age from 2-14. Every one of them loved the goop! We hid little plastic frogs in the goop and the fun had discovering them and trying to get them out was priceless. The goop was spread far and wide across our back deck but was easily cleaned up afterwards with the hose! So easy to prepare and so much fun:)
I just love goop…not only do my twins love it their teenage sister has been known to have fun with it too! love those happy little faces in your pics!
We were telling friends about the way corn flour and water act during a dinner at our place a while back. We decided to show them what we were talking about….and soon after there were a bunch of amazed adults having fun playing with cornflour slime. The kids lots interest in 5 mins but the adults kept playing. It was hillarious.
We made a huge baby bath tub full of this for science club and had the kids walk on it. They LOVED it. Best activity ever.