* BATH PAINT
2 tablespoons liquid soap
food coloring
Portion the soap into several containers & add food coloring to make past
shades.  Let kids paint the tub & themselves as they bathe.  These paint 
rinse easily off the children, the tub, the walls & you!

*Bread Dough Recipe
This is an easy recipe that you may want to mix up yourself...when you do
it...it starts to seem like it is not going to work then all of a sudden you
have the most wonderful dough.
 
 It is 8 slices of bread and 1/2 to 1 Cup of white glue.  You can remove the
crust if you want a more "pure" white dough or you can leave it on and it
will have a "wheat" color to it.  I start with 1/2 Cup of glue and add more
as needed.  You can get more specific recipes from the library in the craft 
section under bread dough art.  We made people in our family (stick people) 
and they turned out really cute.

*Bubble recipe
2 cups joy or dawn (dishwashing soap)
6 cups warm water
3/4 cup white karo corn syrup
For best results : combine and shake.... then let settle for 4 hours
( we never wait that long) This is great bubble soap for those big 
wands you wave around

*Bubble Stuff
1 part dish washing detergent
1 part sugar, gelatin powder, or glycerin
8 to 10 parts warm water

Mix all gently. (making suds will weaken mixture) The sugar or gelatin 
is added to make bubbles more sturdy. They pop when they start to 
evaporate so adding these will make bubbles last longer. Happy bubble 
blowing!!

*Candles
This one needs some supervision, but it's awfully fun.  Get some parafin 
and melt it (I usually boil some water in a big pot and put the parafin 
in an old coffee can inside the pot of water).  Fill some water balloons 
(the small little balloons) with water.  Take old crayons and melt them 
into the parafin to color it.  Dip the water balloon (holding the tied end) 
into the melted parafin -- keep the parafin about half an inch from the top 
of the balloon. If you keep a bucket of cold water beside the hot dipping water, 
it works great to dip in one then in the other, to cool it.  Just keep 
dipping until there is a thick layer of parafin around the balloon.  Let it dry 
overnight and harden. Then pop the baloon, and fill the shell with more melted 
parafin and a wick. The candles turn out really cool shapes.  As I said, this 
isn't an unsupervised project, but it's awfully fun!


*Chocolate Clay
 10 ounces dark, milk or white chocolate confectionery coating (1-3/4 cups 
semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips may be substituted), chopped and melted
1/3 cup light corn syrup

 Combine chocolate and corn syrup until just blended.  Spread onto a sheet of
waxed paper to 3/8-inch thickness (about an 8-inch square). Let stand,
uncovered, at room temperature for about 2-3 hours or until dry to the touch.
 Wrap tightly with plastic wrap; let stand overnight.  Use immediately or
store up to 2 weeks. Yield: 1-1/4 cups.

It is a lot of fun, we rolled it into long strings and made Easter baskets 
last year.

*Cinnamon Dough
Mix about equal parts of applesauce and cinnamon, add cinnamon until the dough 
is stiff, and not sticky, refrigerate, when ready to use roll out onto surface 
that has been sprinkled with more cinnamon powder to keep it from sticking. 
Let air dry or dry in SLOW oven. if it dries too fast it will crack. Decorate 
as desired. We made cinnamon hearts for Valentines Day for our moms...and put 
magnets onto the back for their frig.....and plus we made some more cinnamon 
bears..and put their names on it....with the left over dough.

*Cinnamon Ornaments:
Combine 1 large bo