Goop In The Bath Tub

Posted 2013-04-23 by Jane Street ⇒ follow

Goop is a cheap and easy sensory activity. It's silky and sloppy and fun to run your fingers through. But it can get very messy! An easy way to contain the mess is to put the containers of goop into an empty bath tub and let the children explore the material from head to toe. They will have a brilliant time - and cleaning up and washing the kids off afterwards is easy.

Time: 30 minutes
Age: Under 5's
Level: Easy

Materials

1 cup cornstarch split between a few containers

1/2 cup water

Food colouring

Large plastic dish or tub

Spoons, plastic animals, tubs etc to play with in the goop

Low cost store cupboard ingredients

Method

Make up containers of goop by adding water to the cornflour in a ratio of roughly 1 part water to 2 parts cornflour

Add a few drops of food colouring to each container of goop - preferably different colours.

We chose to make pink and blue

Watch the swirls of colour

Put the tubs of goop and accessories (plastic animals, spoons, other plastic cups etc) into an empty bath tub

Just add children

Let the children explore the goop any way they want to by running their hands through it, dropping plastic animals into it, scooping it, dripping it etc.