So you think you know messy....

My daughter LOVES to be messy! She is never happier than when she is up to her eyeballs in messy fun. Yesterday we played with goop. 2 parts cornstarch, and 1 part water. It acts like a solid and a liquid, depending on the amount of force. You can scoop it up into your hand and then watch it dribble back into the bucket. It's really fascinating. M added some liquid watercolors to it with eye droppers.

 Oh yeah, and it also is very cool with one of your frozen water balloons.   You just never know where an out of the box activity will take you. 

Today was progressively messy. We drew quick pictures to go put out in the rain and watch what happens to the colors.

Then M played with the half melted frozen water balloons. She added them to her half melted wheel barrel.

I suggested she send the ice down the slide. The ice became a mommy, and then a mommy and her baby when it broke.

Then it was off to check out the mud puddle ice rink, it was completely melted. I decided to rake out the puddle a bit, so there would be less leaf debris to deal with the next time it froze. We just had to maximize the slipperiness of it all. It was not long before M was filling a bucket to refill the wheel barrel with muddy water. Then there was puddle jumping in her fuzzy boots, her rain boots had already been soaked. Shortly there was mud play happening. Gloves don't get to look this way by playing in the snow! It was all fun and games until she got mud in her eye. Needless to say, she is enjoying her third bath of the day.