Do your kids love to play with kinetic sand, but you don’t love the price tag? Then this is the perfect project for you to make with your crew! This is definitely an outside craft! We started outside but moved inside because of the wind only to end up back outside!
Supplies:
- 1 c. play sand (check Amazon or the dollar store)
- 1/2 T. cornstarch
- 1 t. dish soap
- 1 c. water
- Large bowl or container
- Smaller bowl or container
- Measuring cups and spoons
- Two or more forks
- Old towels
- Optional: cookie cutters, cups/small buckets, shovels or additional toys for playing in the sand! My kids enjoyed playing with plastic reusable forks, spoons and knives.
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Directions for every 1 cup of sand:
- Add 1 c. of sand to bowl.
- Add 1/2 T. cornstarch to the same bowl.
- Mix the sand and cornstarch with the fork. Set aside.
- In the smaller bowl, mix 1 t. dish soap with 1 c. water until the mixture has become bubbly.
- Very slowly add the water/soap mixture into the sand/cornstarch mixture, mixing as you add. Our sand came wet, so we only used about half of the water/soap mixture.
- Keep mixing and adding in water/soap until you have reached your desired consistency! If your sand is finer or coarser, you may need more or less water. If your sand becomes too wet, add in additional cornstarch.
Pro Tip:
We chose to make 5 pounds of kinetic sand! The larger batch gave my children more sand to play with and made it easier for them to share as they played! We also saw a 25-pound bag of play sand for only a few dollars more and will probably get that the next time! If using 5 pounds of sand, multiply the above numbers by 5.
Janelle Cumro-Sultzer lives in Manhattan, Kansas, with her husband, three children (1, 3 and 5) and two senior dogs. Janelle is mainly a stay-at-home mom in addition to being a mediator at a local counseling center. Janelle loves to focus on learning through play and getting messy with crafts.