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Super Summer Snacks and Fun
by Janine Lynn
Hurrah!! Summer holidays are here! Let's get on with the fun, with
things you have around the house!
Frosty Fruit
Wash, dry, and freeze berries, cherries, or seedless grapes in a sealed
container. Enjoy on a hot day.
Dripless Popsicles
Dissolve one 85 g package of Jell-o powder in 1 C. boiling water. Stir
in 1 1/4 C. juice. Pour into moulds and freeze.
Sensational Slush
Fill a small yoghurt container 2/3 full with juice or pop. Cap with lid
and place in freezer for 1 1/2 hours. Then, mix with fork every 1/2 hour
or so until to desired consistency.
Water-gun Target Shooting
Stand plastic bottles up on a wall, fence, box, or table, with ping
pong balls or empty film vials set on top of each one. From behind a
firing line 3 - 4 paces back, shoot water at targets.
Wonderful Wet-prints
Pour water into a cake or bread pan. Dip your bare feet or hands into
water and make wet-prints on the sidewalk.
Splashy Sidewalk Painting
Use a large paint brush (or plant mister) to create pictures on the
sidewalk using water mixed with a little paint powder, food coloring, or
Kool-Aid powder.
Bubblemania
Mix together 2 C. warm water, 1/4 C. good quality dish soap (Ie. -
Dawn), a little food coloring or paint/Kool-Aid powder, and 2 Tbsp.
glycerine or corn syrup. Use straws, funnels, whisks, small cookie
cutters, etc. to make bubbles and more bubbles.
Sandcast Footprint
Dampen, pat down, and smoothen a small area of sand. Make a footprint
in sand about 1/2" deep. Mix together 1 C. water and 2 1/4 C. plaster
of Paris to thickness of a milkshake. Pour mixture to fill in footprint.
Leave to dry for at least an hour Record date and name on back.
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