This has been one heck of a busy week (and it is far from over), but I wanted to stop in and show you Zachariah's new favorite thing to do in the kitchen! All you need is a bowl, spoon, whipped cream and food coloring! We had all of that in the house, so we quickly got to work.
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We started off with plain ol whipped cream in one of my mixing bowls.
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Then we added some red food coloring, and much to Zachariah's excitement and surprise, it made pink!
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Then he told me he wanted "booo" to go in the bowl, so I put a good bit of blue in there and he went to town stirring.
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And wala! We ended up with a pretty shade of "puh-ple". (My favorite color, in case you were wondering.)
After we made the purple, we put some whipped cream in a separate bowl and Zachariah asked to use red and yellow.
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After a good bit of stirring, we ended up with this almost orange color. It actually looks more orange in the picture. In real life it was a bit wacky. But Zachariah recognized it as "orrrage" and he was pumped. :)
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Here he is, posing with his colored whipped cream.
What a cute little goober.
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And here he is praying for his whipped cream. I thought that was hilariously cute, so here I am snapping pictures, when all of a sudden...
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Ohhhhh! That is why he wanted to pray for it! Duh. I totally should have seen that coming. But that
is why I used whipped cream instead of shaving cream.
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When it was time to clean up, there was a bit of a tantrum. And as you can tell, Zachariah
really enjoyed the whipped cream.
Ah well. Besides that little episode, it was great fun! This is particularly fun for a toddler/preschooler who is just learning their colors. Zachariah already knows all of his, but he had a blast telling me what color dye to put in and then telling me what color it made!
This cute little idea got two thumbs up from this mommy and toddler! :)
2 comments:
What a fantastic idea! Seriously, I wish I'd thought of that when the kids were little.
What a great method of teaching and showing colors to a toddler!! Thank you for how well you and Daniel are teaching him. It shows!!
Love,
Mimi
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