Squishy fun
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| For kids of all ages |
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| You will need:
Wallpaper paste (powder form keeps longer)
Round balloons
A big bowl
Various serviettes - old ones are fine - even ones with dribbles on
String or ribbon
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| Oh and scissors... |
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| Mix water with the wallpaper powder to make the paste. |
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| We made ours far too thick to start with. Like horrible lumpy porridge. |
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| No matter how much Laura stirred... |
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| ...her sticky stick couldn't make it smooth. So I had to put down the camera and mulch it with my fists. |
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| At this point we weren't quite sure... |
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| But the mulching and adding more water helped... |
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| ...and soon we were slapping on the glue. |
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| Lumps and all. |
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| Tearing up the serviettes. |
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| Dipping them in the glue... |
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| ...to get them nice and sticky... |
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| ...and carefully gluing them onto the balloons we'd already blown up. Make sure you go up round the top of the balloon just under the knot. |
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| They go darker as the glue seeps in but lighten up when the dry later. |
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| This one with hyacinths looked good. |
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| Laura liked sunflowers. |
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| Here are three hanging up to dry. Each one has about five layers of overlapping serviette pieces. |
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| Then we washed our hands and watched the kids' Danish Song Contest on TV. |
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| Next day, we hung them from the beams. |
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| The hyacinth one... |
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| ...the classic blue and white one... |
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| ...the cool pink one... |
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| ...and the one with chickens on it. You can pop the balloons when the eggs are nice and dry and cut two little holes and hang them up or just leave the balloons inside. But it made a nice funny noise when we popped a balloon :o) |
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| Then it was time for some tea. Pink Bunny is my oldest toy. I don't think I ever decided if he or she was a boy or girl. And he/she doesn't mind. Bruno and Blanche certainly don't mind. And neither does little lamb. Yes, well spotted...the teapot lid doesn't match. Jakob has killed several teapots by taking them outside and accidentally swiping them off tables with various power tools cables or hosepipes. He has notched up three mugs already this year too. Oh well, worse things happen at sea ;o). |
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