On a recent weekend afternoon I was cleaning out my pantry. I had a billion spices that had expired and I also found expired baking soda and assorted oils. I was feeling rather bad about throwing them out – what a waste! And then I decided to mix two of the ingredients together in a bowl so my daughter could at least “play cook” and mix! But the two ingredients I mixed for her turned into a really NEAT substance…that did a great job of imitating heavy packable SNOW!
Pretend Snow – The Accidental Recipe!
When you handle the “pretend snow” it just leaves a light powdery feeling on your hands. And after your finished playing and rinse the powder off – it leaves your hands really moisturized. Strange! Anyway- super simple!
INGREDIENTS:
- One box of Arm & hammer Baking soda
- About 3/4- 1cup of canola oil (I used Canola since that was the oil that was expired. Any oil would work)
DIRECTIONS:
Just dribble your oil in the baking soda and mix it, until it starts to clump (about 3/4 of a cup oil to one box of baking soda). Then gradually work in the baking soda on the sides of the bowl until it’s all incorporated. It becomes “packable” snow pretty immediately- and you can always add additional oil if you need, so start slow. Less is definitely more in this concoction! The Baking soda is what makes it super white and also so finely powdered- so that ingredient is vital.
Pretend Snow!
Now just let your favorite kid build a snowman, igloo, or make snowballs…even in the dead of summer!
About Shannon SchmidShannon traded in her sensible NYC TV producer shoes (they were best for taking the subway), for a pair of Texas Cowboy boots when she married her best friend! He's at fault for making this Yankee a Texan! Shannon writes about all things that make a house a home. Her chief blogging inspiration is being the proud & slightly neurotic mom of a preschool age daughter.
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This made your hands feel good because A) the oil moisturized and B) the baking soda is a natural abrasive, sloughing off the old dead skin cells. You just spa-ed yourself! 🙂
@Donna George, Well I do love the Spa….so I see why I enjoyed this so much! 😉
genius!!!!!
@Danielle, Thank you! I was quite pleased wit the happy accident:)
Since we didn’t really have snow this year, I love this! Plus, who doesn’t have baking stuff that winds up getting pitched! What a great idea to let kids use it to “cook” and even cooler how it turned out!
What a wonderful experiment and outcome! Awesome and that snowman, well he’s just totally cute!
That is awesome! We are so doing this soon because my Texas boys missed out on the snow this year!