I recently subscribed to a page on Facebook called Fun At Home With Kids and I absolutely love it! There are so many great, simple, safe homemade activities on there, for all ages that I'm dying to try.
Last month, they obviously had a thing for gaks and goops. There were a ton of different kinds posted every day: sparkly, different consistencies, edible, inedible (in most cases this meant with borax), the list goes on.
I decided to try an edible version, because Jaxson is JUST starting to get away from the whole stickeverythinginhismouth phase and I wasn't sent entirely sure he wouldn't just try to eat it because I planned to let him play with it in his high chair, for simplicity.
So I tried this edible gak recipe.
1/4 cup Holy Basil seeds (tukmaria)
1 16oz box cornstarch
2.5 cups water
food colouring (optional)
I was a little unsure where I would find tukmaria seeds in Saskatoon, but lucked out when I went into a halal market in our neighbourhood.
I also didn't really want to use food colouring, so instead I used some spirulina to make the gak green! It turned out better than I expected, though it did smell like spirulina... not that that's the worst thing in the world.
I dissolved the spirulina in water first, then added that to the corn starch and tukmaria seeds.
Mixing with my hands was the easiest way to do it.
And it started thickening pretty quickly!
After it was completely mixed, I let it sit in the fridge for a couple hours.
The result was fantastic!
It took Jaxson a little while to get into it....
And Daddy had to help him along by folding his hands into it....
But after that, he had a blast with it!
We all really enjoyed this stuff, and I'm excited to try another recipe like this soon!
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