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Labs for Gifted Children- At Home and Easy!

September 19, 2015 By Lucy

Rock Candy Lab

You will need:

  • A wooden skewer
  • A clothespin
  • 1 cup of water
  • 2-3 cups of sugar
  • A tall narrow glass or jar

What to do:

  1. Clip the wooden skewer into the clothespin so that it hangs down inside the glass and is about 1 inch (2.5 cm) from the bottom of the glass. (as shown)
  2. Remove the skewer and clothespin and put them aside for now.
  3. Pour the water into a pan and bring it to boil.
  4. Pour about 1/4 cup of sugar into the boiling water, stirring until it dissolves.
  5. Keep adding more and more sugar, each time stirring it until it dissolves, until no more will dissolve. This will take time and patience and it will take longer for the sugar to dissolve each time.Be sure you don’t give up too soon. Once no more sugar will dissolve, remove it from heat and allow it to cool for at least 20 minutes.
  6. Have your friendly ADULT carefully pour the sugar solution into the jar almost to the top. Then submerge the skewer back into the glass making sure that it is hanging straight down the middle without touching the sides.
  7. Allow the jar to fully cool and put it someplace where it will not be disturbed.
  8. Now just wait. The sugar crystals will grow over the next 3-7 days.

Slime Lab

You will need:

  •  1/4 cup of water
  • 1/4 cup of white craft glue (like Elmer’s glue)
  • 1/4 cup of liquid starch (used for clothes)
  •  Food coloring (optional)
  •  Mixing bowl
  •  Mixing spoon

 

What to do:

  • Pour all of the the glue into the mixing bowl.
  • Pour all of the water to the mixing bowl with the glue.
  • Stir the glue and water together.
  • Add your food color now – about 6 drops should do it.
  • Now add the liquid starch and stir it in.
  • It should be nice and blobby by now. As you play with your slimy concoction, it will become more stretchy and easier to hold.

Soap Powered Boat Lab

What to do:

  • A foam tray (like the kind meat comes in) or a piece of non-currogated cardboard
  • A tray, bowl, or cookie sheet full of water
  • Liquid dish soap
  • A toothpick

You will need:

  • Cut the foam tray or cardboard into a boat shape as shown below:

soapboat1

  • Dip the toothpick into the liquid soap and use the toothpick to put soap onto the sides of the notch at the back of the boat.
  • That’s it! Now carefully place the boat onto the surface of the water and watch it scoot across the water for several seconds – you’ve made a soap-powered boat! To demonstrate the boat again, you will need to rinse out the tray to remove any soap from the previous demonstration.

 

*Also, another fun idea would be to get a science kit- it provides a variety of different experiments that can be easily cleaned up and stored. For example, here’s one from Amazon.

SmartLab Toys Extreme Secret Formula

Filed Under: Blog, Crafts, Portfolio Tagged With: boat, candy, gifted, kids, labs, rock, rock candy, slime, soap

Mood Dial -From Family Fun!

August 3, 2012 By Lucy

Mood Dial

Plate or bowl
Pencil
Foam core or cardboard
Scissors
Card stock
Marker
Glue stick or double-sided tape
Paper fastener — or create your own
Foam mounting tape or poster tack

FOR FANCY POINTER:

Button
Bead
Pipe cleaner
Glue
Tape

Instructions

  • Use a plate or bowl to trace a large half-circle onto a sturdy piece of backing material, such as foam core or cardboard, then cut it out
  • Cut pie-piece-shaped sections out of card stock — as many as your child wants to convey her changing moods. Write messages on the sections (ours are on colorful card stock circles) with marker, then attach the sections to the base with a glue stick or double-sided tape.

Filed Under: Crafts

Backpack Shirt Project

August 3, 2012 By Lucy

Ages 6 and up
Turn your old shirt into a backpack with this super fun craft!

Materials

  • T-shirt
  • Sharp scissors
  • Needle and thread
  • Large safety pin
  • Clothesline cord, about 6 times the width of the shirt
  • 7/16-inch eyelet (or grommet) kit (see tip below)

Instructions

1. Turn the T-shirt inside out, then cut across the shirt from armpit to armpit. You’ll need only the bottom section.

2. Use the needle and thread to sew a simple stitch across the shirt, about a half inch in from the cut edge, to seal what will be the bottom of the bag.

3. Turn the shirt right side out.

4. Snip the shirt’s hem almost all of the way through (do not cut any stitching) at the midpoint between the two side seams.

5.Attach a large safety pin to one end of the clothesline cord. Feed the cord, safety pin first, through the casing of the hem.

5. Follow the eyelet or grommet kit instructions to add eyelets to the bottom corner
s of the bag.

6.Thread the ends of the cord through the eyelet holes and double-knot them to secure.
Tips:

An eyelet or grommet kit can be purchased at craft stores or online for around $15. In a pinch, you can cut the holes with scissors and seal the cut edges with fabric glue, but the result won’t be as neat or as sturdy.

THIS IS FROM FAMILY-FUN!

Filed Under: Crafts

Ready For School Crafts!!!

August 2, 2012 By Lucy

Foam Pencil Case

Difficulty: Easy

What You’ll Need

  • 1 large sheet of craft foam (12″ x 17.5″)
  • 1 child safe sewing needle
  • Yarn
  • Tape
  • 4 dots of self adhesive hook and loop
  • White craft glue
  • Scissors
  • Pattern

Fold the craft foam sheet so that you end up with two sections that are 6.5″ and one that is 4.5″ (x 12″).

Print out the “PENCIL” pattern. Lay the foam out flat (not folded) and place the pattern onto the 4.5″ section. Poke the sewing needle through the paper and make an impression in the craft foam. Do this all the way around the letters.

Thread sewing needle with a 48″ piece of yarn. Pull completely through and tie both ends into a knot. Sew the yarn through the holes you created to create the word “PENCILS” on the craft foam.

When finished, thread the yarn through the back of the letters and tie off. Trim and secure with a piece of tape.

Thread a new piece of yarn onto the needle and sew both 6.5″ sides together to create the pencil case. Tie off and secure with tape.

Turn pencil case over to the backside and pipe a generous line of white craft glue along the stitched edges to secure. Let dry.
Place 4 self-adhesive hook and loop circles along the edge of the pencil case flap to keep the case closed.

Fill with pencils!

P.S If I am copyrighting,I didn’t mean to!

Real website for the craft is http://crafts.kaboose.com/foam-pencil-case.html

Filed Under: Crafts

Fun School Project!!!!

September 13, 2011 By Lucy

Secret Code Backpack Chains

Materials

  • Beading cord or hemp
  • Lanyard hooks or key rings
  • Assorted lettered or colored beads 

Instructions

  1. Tie a long piece of beading cord or hemp to a lanyard hook or key ring.
  2. Write the telephone number or locker combination your child needs to remember on a piece of paper. Then have her choose one of the codes below and string on beads as described.
  3. Tie a secure knot at the end of the strand and trim the ends. 

    Secret code-

    a-red

    b-orange

    c-yellow

    d-green

    e-blue

    f-indigo

    g -violet

    h-magenta

    i-gray

    j-black

    k–aqua

    l-teal

    m-pink

    n-purple

    o-crimson

    p-amber

    q-beige

    r-brown

    s-burgundy

    t-fuchsia

    u-violet

    v-peach

    w-saffron

    x-salmon

    y-tangerine

    z-lavender

 

Filed Under: Crafts, Just For Fun

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