Goop Recipe

Sensory awareness goes hand in hand with creativity. While exploring and experiencing with art activities, children are lead on a sensory adventure, developing awareness of texture, temperature and colour. Their curiosity is aroused and this assists children in the growth of many skills including small muscle development, hand eye co-ordination, concentration, to solve problems and to make decisions.
Experiments with art materials can excite even the youngest child’s imagination and promote a sense of great achievement. Encourage children to experiment- they need to know there is no one right way for their art work to look finished. Self expression should be fun. The value of a child’s art lies in the doing not in the end result.
The following messy activity requires little presentation and is guaranteed to be fun, especially enjoyed outdoors; try them during the holidays!
Goop
You will need
2 packets of cornflour
2 cups of water
Food colouring
Large plastic container
Aprons
Plastic or newspaper to cover the table
Method
Mix the water and colouring together into the cornflour.
Then you should have a thick consistency, add extra water if necessary.
Put on aprons.
Plunge hands into the goop and feel the consistency .
Use words to describe the feeling . e.g. sticky, slimy cool etc.
Enjoy exploring the behaviour of goop, as it runs through the fingers, swirls slowly and has a pleasant, heavy feeling.
Patterns can be made on the table.