Squishy

[Jenine Izaguirre]

Imho this makes the Marksman a mastery that can survive lategame even with suboptimal defensive gear. While I personally struggle sometime with my Sentinels - getting cought in a Situation where you can just prey your damage mitigation is high enough to survive long enough to kill your opponents - I feel less squishy with my Marksman, having a way out of tough situations.

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Squishy is just that, squishy. It is a super soft blend of Superwash Merino, Cashmere, and Nylon with a springy twist. We recommend this yarn for socks, sweaters, scarves, shawls, cowls, gloves, hats, blankets, and everything else. Honestly, this yarn is great for just about everything.

All of which brings me back to the joy of teaching people and helping them use that new knowledge to create things as whimsical as play dough circuits. I find that most people have a hard time not smiling when playing with play dough, and laughter tends to flow freely during Squishy Circuit events. But this play is serious. Beneath every squishy creature with glowing eyes is an understanding of concepts such as the directionality of LEDs and how electricity flows through a circuit. Most important is the sense of excitement that grows as these circuit builders realize that they made those lights glow and buzzers beep.

I absolutely love Bernat Blanket Yarn, and the new brights are so beautiful, I wanted to make something with them. Since I was already having fun with my smaller octopus pattern, I decided a giant octopus would be perfect. My daughter wanted me to make her one too, so I got to play around with the pattern a bit and came up with these soft, squishy friends.

As an extension on our previous post about Making Hand Washing Fun, we have now tried making our own squishy dough soap! I have seen several different variations of these around in the past but never got around to trying to make our own, but if there's any time to experiment with making soap this is it! A fun activity to keep the children busy, it doesn't use too much soap (and may actually make your soap go a bit further!)


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It only takes a few ingredients that you probably have on hand at home (or can easily order from Amazon)



Ingredients for Squishy Dough Soap:

• Corn Flour (corn starch)
• Hand Wash
• Almond Oil (or other skin safe oil)
• Soap Colour / Food Colouring (optional)

The squishy soap dough is super easy to make and can easily be made by children all by themselves. The ingredients are also easily swappable to suit what you have at home. We made this batch with our favourite Childs Farm Hand Wash as it's gentle on the childrens' hands (and as we are lucky enough to be brand ambassadors for Childs Farm we did have a few bottles recently gifted to us). I am going to experiment soon with using shower gel instead, as I know that it can be difficult to find hand wash at the moment. I have also used Almond Oil in this batch, but will try sunflower oil for our next batch (I think that the best choice would be Childs Farm Baby Oil, but unfortunately we don't have any at home at the moment.)

First you measure out 1/2 cup Corn Flour / Starch into a bowl.

Then add 2 tbsp Hand Wash to the bowl

Next add 3 or 4 tsp oil to the bowl

Finally you can add a few drops of colour to the bowl

Now it is time to mix (you can try with the spoon, but it is definitely much more fun with your hands!

Ivy made a lovely pink squishy dough soap, which she then spent a bit of time playing with and moulding into different creations.

Then I split it in half (and put some aside for another time) made it into a nice shape and left it by the sink for hand washing. (It won't be for washing hands when we get in from anywhere as I still think that pure soap is more effective, but it should be fine for those in between hand washes when the children have just been home.)

Of course then Ethan wanted a go, so he measured and mixed together the ingredients next.

He decided to put a few drops of blue and a few drops of red colour to attempt to make purple. The colours haven't blended (but probably would with more kneading) but he is quite happy with the swirl effect.

And that was it, so simple to make squishy dough soap, great fun to create with it and it will make hand washing a bit more fun for the children too!


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These gluten free dinner rolls are soft and squishy, so they're ideal for serving with any homestyle meal. Imagine them on the side of your plate of gluten free spaghetti and meatballs, since they're easy enough for a weeknight.

My daughter learned a lot about how circuits work, how to build a circuit, and why insulation is important. She accidentally touched the battery to one of the lights, and blew the light out with a loud pop. The makers of squishy circuits expressly state that touching the power directly to the light can cause issues like this, or even damage the battery. Safety is extremely important when doing this activity because the circuit may be small, but it is real electricity that the kids are working with.

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