With the weather getting nicer the littles have been itching to go outside and play. Today's craft was picked out to let them go outside and run around for just enough time before they got too cold and wanted to come back inside.
Bouncy Balls!!
I ordered these from Amazon the other day just waiting for the right day to make them. Today was that day.
This box is a pretty good size for a kit to make bouncy balls and when we opened it up to get all the supplies out I thought for sure that this project was going to be a dud. (They totally could have gotten away with a smaller box) The first thing that I did was pull out the directions and thankfully they were super easy to read.
Let The Fun Begin
There was 8 different colors of bouncy ball making "stuff" to choose from and an additional 2 packets that included glow in the dark "stuff"
It also included 2 bouncy ball molds (thank goodness)
Each little one chose their colors and mold... The boy chose blue, orange, green, and yellow....
The girl chose pink, purple, and another shade of pink.
They then took their turns of pouring the colors into their molds.
Once the little ones had their molds filled we had to take the molds and place them in an empty container and then fill the container up with warm water and let the molds sit for 10 minutes.
(Obviously patience isn't one of their strengths)
Finally the 10 minutes was over and it was time to take the molds out and open them up to play with.... Right..... Nope... we had to wait another 10 minutes for the bouncy balls to sit in their molds outside of the water.
After the longest 10 minutes of their lives it was time to take their bouncy balls out of the molds and play.
I have to admit that when purchasing this kit you get a lot of bang for your buck. We made 8 bouncy balls and only used half of the bouncy "stuff". That means that we still have the supplies to make more on a different day once they lose the ones they made today. Another positive of the kit is that it is SUPER easy. All you have to do is poor the material in a mold, place it in water and wait.
The only negative that I found is that they only give you two molds and the littles had to wait 20 minutes for each bouncy ball to be finished. My boy said "That is like 100 years Mommy!"
The littles did have a great time making the bouncy balls and an even better time playing with all of them afterwards.
I'd give this craft a 1.5/5.0 Mommy hair pulling score.
There was minimum frustrations, except for the waiting
Love the hair pulling score! We have actually done this craft before and it was lots of fun, but we did find that the balls had a funky film on them. Did you get the same results?
ReplyDeleteThe hair pulling score is hilarious. I don't even have kids, but this looks like something that would be really fun to do. I'll have to try this with my nephew when he gets older! Bouncy balls were like the holy grail of my childhood.
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