Baking soda paste: a natural and fun recipe
The baking soda pasta is very simple to make and especially in the Christmas holidays you can indulge yourself with your children to create original and cheap decorations for the Christmas tree, perhaps with the help of cookie cutters. You will have a lot of fun. creativity in children is really essential. In addition to baking soda there are a thousand games you can play together. Watch the video below and discover them all!
How do you prepare the baking soda pasta? Three ingredients and that's it.
The dough made with salt pinches your hands a little while kneading it, while the bicarbonate one is very homogeneous and perfect for modeling. A more classic version of the modern slime! Heat a cup of water about 150 grams, do not let it boil. After just a minute, you can pour in the powders, 100g of corn starch and 200g of bicarbonate, previously mixed well. Keep the heat low. Even when the mixture has solidified, keep stirring so as not to form lumps and not to make it stick to the bottom and sides of the pot. As soon as the mixture begins to detach from the edges and become more solid and rubbery, remove it from the heat and pour it on a wooden cutting board, where you can knead it and shape it into a ball. Then let it cool and that's it! Your DIY modeling clay is ready, very white thanks to the bicarbonate, this magical product with a thousand and more properties, perfectly smooth and well modelable. Now you can have fun with the children to create all kinds of objects, puppets, flowers, animals, stars, trees and everything that the imagination suggests to you and your little ones. Start by taking a small amount and begin your creative work with your children. When you have given the baking soda dough the shape you like best, leave it in the air, uncovered, to let it dry well. A great advantage is that the baking soda pasta can be stored in the fridge, if left over. wrapped in cling film so that it does not dry out and retains the moisture it needs to be reused. If by chance after a few days it seems too dry to be used, you can add a little warm water and it will become moldable again. Another advantage is that, being edible, this paste is not dangerous even if accidentally ingested and therefore is suitable for children of all ages. At Christmas, children will certainly want to try to make decorations for the tree or for gifts with this mixture, place cards for the festive table or original "little thoughts" for grandparents and for little cousins.
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By piercing the object, before the paste hardens, obtained with a resistant plastic straw, it is then possible, once the drying is complete, to pass a ribbon through the hole so that it can be hung or tied to gift packages. Start by taking a small amount and start your creative work with your children. Undoubtedly, in stationeries and in children's play shops they sell many modeling pastes, for example plasticine, with which you will certainly have played as kids. But perhaps it is better to prepare it at home, so you will have the certainty of its non-toxicity before put it in the hands of your children, who will have fun creating with molds or freely what they like best. It is also a very cheap way to make it and this serves to make the little ones understand that it can be useful to the little ones to understand that you don't always have to buy everything, something we can also prepare ourselves with a few ingredients, which perhaps we already have at home.
In addition, the fun will be greater if they prepare it together with you, instead of bringing it home already beautiful and ready in a package purchased at the stationery. Children love to play with modeling clay. Even a few years ago in all the houses there was never a lack of plasticine, with which flowers and trees could be created. puppets. It is true, the plasticine is colored and sometimes it is nice to make these objects with a touch of color, but also the bicarbonate paste, pearl white and very smooth to the touch, can be colored very well with food dyes or with some sketch of tempera or non-toxic watercolors. When the game is over and you close the small creation workshop in your home, don't forget to keep the leftover pasta in the fridge, well wrapped in cling film.
Creating, by kneading, is good for your children!
The art of modeling with your hands greatly develops the concentration and creativity of our little ones. Exercising manual skills, kneading and shaping, greatly develops the creative, coordination and concentration skills of children, who love to dedicate themselves to these jobs. They also love messing with water and flour or making cookies with you with the appropriate molds and decorating them creatively, develop their imagination, give free rein to their imagination, as well as the satisfaction of having created something by themselves with their own. hands. Indeed, by playing with modeling clay they train the muscles of the hands, they understand how to measure and control their strength. That is, they develop what is called fine motor skills. Children are always excited to model some substance to give life to new forms. Don't you remember how they love to make sand castles with their dad or siblings in the summer? The spring is the same: the satisfaction of creating on their own and they are thrilled to show their creations to everyone. The safety of the compound then, as we mentioned before, is not a negligible detail. Since this pasta is made entirely from natural ingredients, it is not dangerous, it does not go into the eyes like sand, it is completely non-toxic, ingestible and easily washable and it is also gluten free. And you, mothers and fathers, never go back to your children's children and leave room for their free creativity, without being too masters, praise them for their creations and don't make others more perfect than theirs. You could make them feel inadequate and they would be very upset. Make the kitchen environment safe, eliminate knives and breakable or sharp objects, prepare safe seats to make them reach the work surface, nice aprons and inaugurate your creative laboratory.
So, are you ready? Get away with your imagination and have fun everyone!
