Salt Ceramic Dough

Elijah (and I) had to use this recipe to make a water cycle chamber. It is an interesting dough. The water cycle chamber is pretty awesome. It was a great project.

Mix together:

one cup table salt

one half cup cornstarch

three quarters of a cup of cold water

Heat this mixture on the stove.

(A double boiler works best, but a saucepan on low to medium heat is satisfactory.)

Stir constantly. In about two or three minutes it becomes so thick that it follows the spoon in the stirring process. It quickly reaches a consistency similar to bread dough. Spoon out the mixture onto foil or waxed paper. When it is cool enough to handle, knead the dough for several minutes, place it in a sealed plastic bag.

Making Butter

Well, this wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. This is what you will need:

baby food jar
heavy cream
salt
marble

Directions: Put the marble in the jar and fill the jar a little over half full. Pour in a little salt. Have the kids shake the baby food for for about 10 to 15 minutes. Or until the fat collects in a ball around the marble. This is butter

Pour out the liquid. This is buttermilk. If any of the the buttermilk is left in the butter, the butter will rot. So you need to rinse it out. Keep the butter in the jar and pour water into it. Shake the jar and dump it out again. Keep doing this until the water pours out clear. Once this happens you are done! Enjoy!

Flubber

Mixture 1: ¾ cup Warm Water

1 cup Elmers Glue

Food Coloring

Mixture 2: 2 tsp. Borax

½ cup Warm Water

Stir mixture 1 together in 1 bowl, mixture 2 in another bowl. Make sure both are mixed well. Pour mixture 1 into mixture 2. No need to stir, just reach in and pull out a glob of flubber! Work it well for 2 or 3 minutes. ENJOY the FUN!