1. Homemade Finger Paint
1/3 cup corn starch
2 tbsp. sugar
2 cups water
1/4 cup dish soap
food coloring
In a sauce pan mix together corn starch and sugar. Slowly mix in water. On medium heat cook until mixture turns into an opaque gel. Remove from heat and let cool completely. Once cool, add in dish soap. Distribute into cups or containers and add desired colors. The soap helps prevent it from staining things (hands, body, carpet and furniture).
Crayon Meltdown
Because I have a toddler and she loves to color I used to have a nice box of 120 crayons. After a month or two of her having free reign of the box, I was left with 80 million fragments of what used to be. Instead of being wasteful and throwing them away, I decided to melt them down and make new ones. Ones that she couldn't simply step on and break and easier for her to hold.
Take a muffin tin and line it with aluminum baking cups. Take off all wrappings and snap them into tiny pieces. Fill the cups 3/4 of the way full. Bake at 200 until crayons have completely dissolved, somewhere between 10-20 min. Let cool for a few hours or overnight. Remove from the muffin tin and tear away the aluminum. You have just made reconstituted toddler friendly crayons.
