Materials
Newspaper bowls glue liquid starch water spoons measuring spoons and cups zipper-closure plastic bags meat trays paper marker
Instructions
1. Cover a table with newspaper.
2. Fill a bowl with glue, a bowl with liquid starch, and a bowl with water and put them on the table.
3. Put out the spoons, cups, meat trays, and extra empty bowls.
4. Encourage the children to mix the three ingredients in different combinations and watch the results. For example, mixing starch and glue first, and then water makes a stringy linguini-type mixture, while mixing glue and water first, and then starch makes a kind of putty material.
5. Have an adult supervise the experiments and record the recipes and outcomes so that the "good" ones can be repeated.
