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Fizzing Candy Canes : The first picture below is where I got the inspiration for our project. Click here for a tutorial of fizzing candy canes . Of course, we didn't have candy canes today, but we did have a lot of peppermint candies. I used a muffin pan and filled each tin with baking soda (snow) and peppermint candies. Then, I filled three plastic cups with vinegar and used food coloring to color the vinegar - blue, red and green. We initially used a medicine dropper to fill with vinegar and squirt into the baking soda. After a while, we just poured the cup of vinegar into the baking soda. Easton kept wanting to do more and more. We'll just say baking soda and vinegar are on my grocery shopping list.  Easton LOVED this. See the bottom picture to see the fun we had today. Candy Cane Color Matching : We did some color matching today. I found the candy cane color matching, size ordering and numbers from the same Christmas Pack. Click here to print . Candy Ca...

Halloween Oobleck : Easton really liked this activity! I mixed 1/2 Cup Water with 1 Cup of Cornstarch (1:2 ratio). Once the water and cornstarch were mixed together, I poured the mixture onto a cookie sheet. Water and cornstarch is an interesting combination. If it's played with or rolled into a ball, it becomes a solid and if it sits, it oozes into a liquid. I dumped a few plastic Halloween objects I bought from the Dollar Store into the mixture and let Easton go to town. After playing for a while, I brought out a small bin and filled it with water. Easton liked watching the cornstarch dissolve in the water and learning if the Halloween objects sink or float. Lots of great science in this activity! Click here to see the inspiration for this idea.   Decorate a Haunted House : I bought a " haunted house kit " from a local grocery store. We frosted and decorated our haunted house (first picture). I also really liked the idea of making a foam haunted house  (second pict...