Baby Oil Art

This activity is really easy and fun!

You need:
- aluminium foil (size of a regular paper)
- baby oil
- coloured tissue paper

Help your toddler tear up some tissue paper and place them in a pile next to the foil. Put enough baby oil to coat the foil and then show your tot how you can stick the tissue paper to the foil, and remove it easily to make a different creation.

Wave Bottle

*From the "Toddler's Busy Book" by Trish Kuffner*


You need:
- Empty and clean soda/water bottle
- glue
- glitter, beads etc.
- water
- baby oil
- food colouring

Fill 1/3 of the bottle with water and add food colouring. Add the beads and glitter and whatever else you may like. Add baby oil (try to get a cheap kind, cause you will fill the entire bottle). Fill the rest of the bottle with baby oil and put some glue on the inside of the bottle cap. Twist it on and let it dry. This step will give you peace of mind that your toddler won't be able to unscrew the cap and get all the glorious oil/water on your floors and carpet... So don't forget that step ;)
Rocking the bottle will create "waves" of glitter.... Just seeing the water and oil merge and then separate is super cool for the little ones!

**i didn't want to use up all my baby oil, so that's my my bottle isn't completely filled!

Have fun!

Ice Cube Bags/Colored Ice Cubes

*from the "Toddler's Busy Book" by Trish Kuffner*


You need:
- Ice cube tray
- Water
- Food colouring of your choice
- Zip Lock Bags (as many as you'd like to make)

Add food colouring to the water and pour into the ice cube tray. Good choices of colours are red, yellow and blue.

Once they are frozen, take out two ice cubes at a time (ex. red+yellow/ red+blue/yellow+blue) and put into a zip lock bag. Watch the ice cubes melt and the colours mix to form new ones.

~ I loved this activity because of the 'sensory' component that it had. My daughter loved touching the ice cubes, and I loved the fact that they were in the bags so that I didn't have to worry about her putting them in her mouth or swallowing the them. ~

You can also use ice cubes during your child's bath time. Just add a few coloured cubes into the bathtub and watch the cubes shrink. Your toddler will love it!