Talking Bubble

We were outside the other day playing with bubbles, good timeless fun. As we are experimenting with all the different wands. I am thinking this would be a great science inquiry activity (stay tuned to Second Grade Made in the Shade to see how that turns out in the classroom) but in the mean time my daughter came up with a fun game to play with the bubbles that included two of my favorite things affirmation and imagination. You sit across from each other and blow bubbles. But before you blow the bubble you whisper a compliment into the bubble, then blow. The person catches the bubble and hears the compliment. Then they blow another bubble back with a compliment inside. We had so much fun doing this.

Christmas in July? Well, cookies at least

At Christmas we always have lots of fun making sugar cookies. Well I thought we could have a little sugar cookie fun this summer. I wanted to try an idea I saw about using sweetened condensed milk and food coloring to make paint. The idea used the paint on paper, but I thought since both ingredients were edible why not paint on sugar cookies. So we gathered the ingredients.

sugar cookie mix, any sugar cookies would probably work, I just wanted to try this.

frosting

one can sweetened condensed milk

food coloring

I poured the content of the pouch and added the other ingredients the package called for into the KitchenAid mixer and let them mix until combined. I tried to mix by hand at first but it was way too hard to combine the butter and the mix. We then spooned the cookies onto a cookie sheet and baked as directed. While they were baking, we poured the sweetened condensed milk into cups and added a few drops of food coloring.

Wow, magic! I guess the right thing to do would bake the cookies ahead of time and let them cool, but we skipped that step. Next we frosted some of the cookies. 

 Then we painted or drizzled the colored sweetened condensed milk onto the cookies, and let them dry (or let some dry).

Here is the end result. The cool thing about the sweetened condensed milk is it dries shiny. You might get better results if you let the cookies cool and use a paint brush to paint instead of the plastic knifes we used, but ours were lots of fun to make and yummy to eat.