Mad Science and Sensory Fun!

Our science and sensory play this month has been a lot of fun!!!

We started with an outdoor Mad Scientist's Lab during our visit to Texas earlier this month. This was one of the first times that Monkey (18 months) has really gotten into sensory play so it was fun to see him exploring!

"Zombie Brains"
(Cooked spaghetti tossed with gel food coloring in zip lock bags. I hid Halloween objects inside for the boys to find as well since Munchkin sometimes needs an incentive to sensory play. This was a great outside activity since it eventually dissolved into a "brain war...")



"Mad Scientist Lab"
(This was really just good old-fashioned baking soda and vinegar play, but we took B-Inspired Mama's idea for "Fizzing Eyeballs" and coated plastic eyeball toys in a paste of baking soda and water. Munchkin had a blast dropping them into various Halloween-y containers filled with dyed vinegar. His little brother watched closely, but didn't want to get involved in this one!)

Halloween Water Beads

Back at home, I wanted to continue coaxing our Monkey into some sensory play, so we pulled out some fall colored water beads along with our Halloween toys.

Monkey is super into transfer activities right now so it really wasn't until I gave him another empty container alongside the sensory bin that he got interested...



Big brother joined in the fun too...

And both seemed to enjoy filling and dumping the after-though of a container!



"Witch's Brew"
Ironically, Munchkin's Halloween sensory activity was actually the easiest to prepare. I dumped the contents of the water bead tub into a plastic cauldron and added some water dyed with purple food coloring. It turns out that apparently Munchkin is as interested in transfer activities as his little brother. He never stuck his hands in the cauldron at all, but spent at least 20 minutes (a record for him) spooning the "brew" into various containers. This ended up being the only sensory or science activity he requested to repeat this month!

       

Mad Science Lab, Round 2

Another round with dyed vinegar and baking soda. This time minus the eyeballs but with some other fun Halloween accessories. This was a quick, open ended lab I threw together as a surprise to have waiting for Munchkin when he came home from school on Halloween.



A Candy Corn Volcano and Candy Corn Foam Dough Eruptions rounded out our science fun for October. Details on those can be seen in our Candy Corn Theme Week!