Chalk and Starch

Here’s another activity I found on Almost Unschoolers.  Something nice and simple and something different. This was our playgroup activity this week (the photos are not from playgroup).

All you need is some liquid starch, fabric and some colour chalk.

Dip the fabric in the starch and sqeeze out the excess liquid, then lay the fabric down on a flat surface (the flat surface prevents the cloth from moving).

The chalk marks on the starched cloth become ‘brighter’ and the cloth ‘stiff’ (new vocabulary for the little ones).  The starch we used also had a nice smell, so we can talk a little about the sense of smell and the nose.