• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Meaningfulmama.com logo

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Contact Me
  • Kids
    • Active Kids
    • Activities
    • Bible Lessons
    • Crafts
    • Reading Activities
    • Math Activities
    • Science Activities
  • Character Building
  • Parenting
  • Marriage
  • Holidays
    • New Years
    • Valentine
    • St. Patrick’s Day
    • Easter
    • Mother’s Day
    • Father’s Day
    • Fourth of July
    • Harvest
    • Halloween
    • Thanksgiving
    • Christmas
  • Parties
  • Recipes
    • Appetizers
    • Beef
    • Breads
    • Breakfast
    • Cakes
    • Chicken
    • Cookies
    • Cupcakes
    • Desserts
    • Drinks
    • Fish
    • Fun Food
    • Main Course
    • Play Recipes
    • Salad
    • Sandwiches
    • Sides
    • Snacks
  • Cakes
  • Home & DIY

Make Your Own Boogers

6 Comments As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

With a child who loves tactical experiences, I’m always looking for ideas to keep her interested. Make your won boogers definitely captures imagination and gives that fun “ewww!” childhood experience. Kids (OK and parents too) will find something oddly fascinating while playing with this slime.

Make-your-own-boogers-1

Materials Needed:

  • Boiling water
  • A cup
  • Gelatin
  • Corn syrup
  • A teaspoon
  • A fork
  1. Fill half a cup with boiling water.
  2. Add three teaspoons of gelatin to the boiling water.
  3. Let it soften before stirring with a fork.
  4. Add a quarter of a cup of corn syrup.
  5. Stir the mixture again with your fork and look at the long strands of gunk that have formed.
  6. As the mixture cools slowly add more water, small amounts at a time.
  7. After you let it sit for a while, it will turn into more of a Jell-O like substance.
This was just a fun, quick activity I thought the girls would enjoy…and they did.  My girls had fun mixing the ingredients and then touching and playing with it.  Make sure you are handling the boiling water and that they are being very careful around it.
We also did a quick lesson on the purpose of mucus.  The simple explanation I gave them is that it is a sticky substance that helps grab dirt and germs so that those bad things don’t go deeper into our bodies.  Boogers protect us.

Make your own boogers 2

 I hope you have a great time playing with boogers. Providing kids with sensory activity helps build new pathways in their brain as they are experiencing new interactions with the world around them.
print

Filed Under: Activities Tagged With: Play Recipes

Previous Post: « Day #64 Orderliness Word Ring – Character Development, Week #10
Next Post: Day #65 – Orderliness with “I Spy”, Character Development, Week #10 »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Jenn

    March 4, 2012 at 9:44 pm

    Oh my gosh – my nephew would go crazy over this stuff!! You should come back and enter my Vanilla Bean Paste giveaway that I have going on right now!

    Reply
    • Mama Jodi

      March 5, 2012 at 5:26 am

      Thanks for inviting me over to your giveaway. I hope you do the boogers with your nephew. That’s one of those sentences that I never really imagined writing.

      Reply
  2. Annette

    March 5, 2012 at 1:33 am

    Thanks for this idea!

    Reply
    • Mama Jodi

      March 5, 2012 at 5:26 am

      No problem! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Miss Missy

    May 21, 2012 at 6:43 pm

    How long do these last? Wondering if I make them for my class the night before if it will still be gooey and finger ready the next day. Thank you!!!

    Reply
    • Mama Jodi

      May 22, 2012 at 6:45 am

      I think I would make it while they were at recess or something. The gelatin does make it solidify a bit after a while. I hope that’s helpful. Thanks for asking.

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Parenting is not easy, but it is so important. My goal is to help inspire and equip parents in a more intentional, creative and enjoyable parenting experience.

  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • StumbleUpon
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Newsletter Sign-up

Become a part of the Meaningful Mama community to receive encouragement, ideas, tips and tricks.

More About Jodi

Jodi has a degree in education and is now a stay-at-home mom of three. She has used her experiences as a teacher, private tutor, camp counselor and youth worker and applied it to her parenting experiences. The classes she has taken in psychology, teaching kids, parenting, art and marriage all contribute to her parenting style and philosophy. She is a constant student of this thing called motherhood. Meaningful Mama embraces her passions for Jesus, motherhood, entertaining, creativity, and the culinary arts.

Footer

A Note on Copyright

Feel free to use ideas in your home and community. If you wish to share any posts or photographs from this site on your blog or website, you may use one picture with a link to the original post. Please do not repost, duplicate or re-write the whole tutorial or distribute printed content without written permission from the original author. Thank you!

Copyright © 2019 · Foodie Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

Become a part of the Meaningful Mama community to receive encouragement, ideas, tips and tricks.... it's FREE!
My passion is to encourage and equip parents to be more intentional in this important role.
Your information will *never* be shared or sold to a 3rd party.
  • Activities
  • Cakes
  • Character Building
  • Crafts
  • Holidays
  • Parenting
  • Parties
  • Recipes
  • About Me