Exploring Goop!

Our children love sensory experiences. Goop is corn starch and water with a bit of food colouring. Like Gak, it acts as both a solid and liquid and is fun to play with utensils that allow it to ooze. 

This experience really motivated children to use descriptive language and vocabulary related to both science and math. 

Goop!

Last week we explored Gak and today we experimented with goop (cornstarch and water). Is it a solid?  A liquid?  Whatever it is it sure is fun!

Goop!

Mrs. Bombardier put out one of our favourite messy activities...GOOP!  Goop is cornstarch and water mixed together with some food colouring. Just enough water is added to the cornstarch so that it is wet and will drip through one's fingers when picked up, but dry enough so it is hard to the touch when in the sensory bin. It is messy and so much fun!

Goop is interesting because it acts like both a solid and liquid - this intrigued our children especially after our experiments with melting crayons earlier in the week. We added tools like funnels, spoons, and bowls to the goop to enhance the exploration.

Goop

We experimented with goop on Friday! Goop is 2 parts cornstarch to 1 part water with a little food colouring. Goop is interesting because it acts like a solid and liquid. It's hard to pick up and can be formed, but once it looses its form it is drippy and hard to control. The children were fascinated by it, especially after working with the gak last week. 

Goop!

Our messy recipe for the month of November was Goop (2 parts cornstarch to 1 part water with a few drops of food colouring). Miss Halupka made it with the children today. Goop is interesting because when you touch it, it feels hard, but when you try and pick it up it slips through your fingers. It's an great way to get the children thinking about properties of matter and the various states of materials. Needless to say, it was a hit!

Helping measure the ingredients

Mixing the goop together

 

Testing out how it slips through your fingers!