Or an ocean book with a handful of seashells to identify.
Pair a favorite book such as a truck book with a batch of fresh kinetic sand, small vehicles, and rocks. Add a handful of google eyes to the kinetic sand and a pair of kid-safe tweezers to practice fine motor skills while removing them. Add holiday-themed cookie cutters and plastic candy canes. Create a holiday theme such as red kinetic sand using red craft sand for Christmas. Add counters for one to one counting practice too. Use number or letter cookie cutters along with homemade kinetic sand for math and literacy. 
Duplos are fun to stamp in kinetic sand!. Usually with aluminum, you can find out pretty fast.Kinetic sand is an excellent addition to your preschool activities! Even a busy box or small bin with a lid filled with a batch of kinetic sand, a few small trucks, and a little container is a great start! Transform any morning or afternoon with this activity. Which could in turn, produce a hydraulic effect that would push your molten aluminum out, or leave huge air bubbles when the metal cools down. Even if you bought the soap, food coloring, and corn starch, you're only looking at 3 bucks and change at Wal Mart.Īs for using it as casting sand, my guess is that the water and soap in the sand mix may come to a boil/steam and cause the soap to suds up. The sand can literally be free from a nearby beach, sand from your kid's sandbox, or wherever else you can find sand. This article presumes you may have the dish soap, food coloring, and corn starch around the house, since they are fairly common items found in one's kitchen. If you wish to purchase this from Amazon for example, it's 12 bucks. If I understand you correctly, you are asking the total cost to make this green sand correct? If not, the sand is green due to the food coloring the poster used in their mixture. This will increase the chances of you getting a more attractive color than I did! To not make the same mistake I did add more food coloring to your soap and water until it forms a really dark solution. Notes: As you can see my sand is a pale green and not as bright as I would like it to be. By the end of this step your sand should be a fine mixture, slightly damp, and completely colored. Break apart any large clumps that begin to form using ole’ soapy spoon. Continue to add the water and mix your sand until all the sand has been coated and is slightly damp. 
This means you may or may not use all of the water.
You want to add a little at a time so your sand does not become a wet soppy mess.
Begin to mix your sand and corn starch together as you slowly pour the soapy colored water solution into the bowl. You will also need ole’ soapy once again for mixing. Grab your bowl of sand and starch from all the way back in step 3 and your soapy colored water solution we made in step 4. For this step we are now going to add all of our ingredients together.
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