about.com's chemistry guide has instructions for how to make a polymer bouncing ball. Once again, the main ingredient, as with most of the science projects is borax. Beyond that it's just cornstarch and glue and some food coloring to make it pretty.
Candy experiments shows yohow to see the colors that make up a candy cane. All you need is a shallow dish of water and a candy cane and the stripes of the candy cane will slowly melt into the water.
Design mom shares photo snowglobes. She "laminates" the photos by placing them between clear packing tape before inserting and adds grated pvc pipe for the "snow."
Kiboomu has details on how to create a paper lantern for the Chinese new year. It's tradition that the celebrations begin with a lantern festival. Each color means something different.
Red: Good fortune Pink: Romance Peach: Opportunities Orange: Money Yellow: Success White: Health Green: Growth
Blue: Hope
Purple: Idealism
Everyone chooses the color that shows their wishes and writes down a written message on the lantern itself.
A cute send off for a ballooned themed party is to make squishy balloon people. Simply fill a balloon with playdoh or sand and draw on some cute faces.
We made that gives a step by step account and adds googly eyes to her version.
Balloons make for a creative gift wrapping for a fun birthday present.
Choose craftiness has a really innovative idea for making balloons into a very special birthday gift. She recommends placing dollars and special notes into blown up balloons and then tying and mailing them. Kids will have so much fun receiving a box of balloons and even more fun popping them to find all of the gifts inside.
