Measure out approximately 1 cup full of cornflour.
Insert the funnel into your plastic bottle, and carefully spoon the cornflour into the bottle, through the funnel.
Once your bottle contains all of the cornflour, take your orange balloon and inflate it (do not inflate it fully).
Twist the neck of the balloon to stop the air coming out, and whilst carefully holding the twist, place the end of the balloon around the opening of the bottle.
When the balloon is in place, let go of the twist to open up the neck and turn your bottle upside down – emptying the contents into the balloon. You may wish to squeeze and tap your bottle a little to help the cornflour fall into the balloon.
With all of the cornflour is inside the balloon, pinch the neck of the balloon to prevent any escaping and carefully remove the bottle. Slowly release the air from the balloon – do not open the neck up fully otherwise your cornflour with fly out everywhere!
Creating an Oobleck (GLOOP) Sensory Ball
Using a pipette, carefully squirt some water into the balloon.
Keep squishing it around carefully and adding more water until you have the desired consistency! Not too hard and not too runny.
Now, carefully move any excess from the neck down into the balloon and tie a knot in the end.
Have a little play (for entertainment sake!) and then give it a wash and a dry to remove any excess powder.
Creating your Snowman Stress Ball
Take your white balloon and snip the neck of the balloon off using a pair of scissors. Do not cut too far down otherwise this will make the opening too wide (see video above for an example).
Open up the balloon like you are putting on a sock, and put it over the orange balloon. Make sure the knot of the orange balloon goes to the back/inside of the white balloon and carefully push the rest of the orange balloon inside.
Once this is complete you should have a small orange circle/oval opening (the tangerine nose!) which bulges out when squished (SO much fun!)
Using a black permanent marker, carefully draw a mouth and two eyes to resemble ‘The Snowman’.
Take a piece of green felt. Push the middle of the felt into the bottle lid and cut around the excess to make a circle shape.
At this point, I used an elastic to secure the felt to the lid, and a large marble to help press and shape the felt into the cavity of the bottle lid.
To help add hold and stiffness to the felt, you’ll need some warm soapy water. I simply wet my fingers, then wet the soap, and rubbed the mixture onto the felt whilst pressing and moulding.
Carefully blot away any excess water with kitchen roll and leave to dry! I left mine to dry with the elastic in place, marble inside, and a weight balanced on top to press it down.
Once the felt is dry, you may glue this in place on top of the sensory ball using felt glue. Leave to dry…and…voila!