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Dr. Seuss Week & Oobleck!

by Angela Thayer 4 Comments

Did you know Dr. Seuss’ birthday is this on March 2nd? To honor of him, we are doing some Dr. Seuss activities this week. To start off, I’m going to show you a fun sensory activity with creating Oobleck. This slimy stuff originates from the book Bartholomew and the Oobleck. It’s a great book!


To make oobleck, you only need 3 ingredients: 1 cup water, 1.5-2 cups corn starch, and green food coloring. You mix all of it together (adding more corn starch if it’s too watery) and the you can put it on the table or a mat. The neat thing about oobleck is that it’s liquid, but also a solid. When you pour it or hold it in your hands it is liquid, but it’s solid when it’s on the mat. It is a blast for children to play with. When I was a 4th grade teacher, we made oobleck for Read Across America Day. It was messy with 25+ students playing with it, so 1 preschooler was pretty easy! 🙂
Oobleck Recipe As Troy was discovering oobleck, he told me it felt cold, wet, gooey, and soft. He didn’t know what the word ‘slimy’ was, so I introduced the word to him. I think that slimy would be the best way to describe oobleck.

Discovering Oobleck

Hands in Oobleck

Playing with Oobleck Oobleck remindes me of the show on Nickelodeon, Slime Time. Does anybody remember this show? We didn’t have cable, so I didn’t see the show too many times but I always thought it was hilarious that they covered contestants with that nasty slime….I would never do it.

Have fun playing with oobleck!!

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  1. Susan Core says

    February 25, 2013 at 4:02 pm

    Angela – here is a link to our St Patricks from last year. http://www.coresandmore.blogspot.com/2012/03/week-of-st-patricks-fun.html
    Further down in the post you can see where Grandpa did the Oobleck with the kids and added sound vibrations to make it dance. Kids literally played with it for hours.

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    • Teaching Mama says

      February 25, 2013 at 8:18 pm

      Wow! Thanks for sharing. You are a great mom!! That’s cool that you added sound vibrations to make it dance. We’ll have to try that next time!!

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    April 15, 2013 at 10:18 am

    […] Sensory mud is so easy to make! All you do is mix baking soda with a little bit of water and black food coloring. (Side note: to make black food coloring, mix equal parts of red, yellow and blue.) I used 1.5 boxes of baking soda and just added water until it was the consistency of mud. Then I mixed in the food coloring. I noticed it does start to look watery on top  if I let the mud sit there, but changes again once you mix it . This sensory activity actually reminded me of the consistency of oobleck. […]

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