Slime

What you will need:

1. 1 cup of liquid dish soap
2. 1 cup of flour
3. 1/2 cup of water

Mix all the ingredients together. Then let it sit for about 5 minutes. Have fun! Store in a plastic container (you will never get it out if it is in a bag.)

Goopy Goo

What you will need:

1.  1/2 cup liquid starch
2. 1 cup Elmer’s glue

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. Then kneed in your hands and just when you think it won’t work, it does!  Have fun! Store in a completely sealed bag. You can also add food coloring for an extra shine!

Spoons

Objective
To get four of a kind and take a spoon. Once one spoon is taken, everybody attempts to get the remaining spoons.
Play
From 3 to 8 players use a deck of 52 ordinary playing cards and a number of spoons totaling one fewer than the number of players. The spoons are placed in the center of the table with handles pointing outward so that they may be easily grabbed by any of the players. One person is designated first dealer and deals four cards to each player. Remaining cards are placed in a pile in front of the dealer to form the draw pile. The person to the left of the dealer is known as the trash can. Deal passes to the right each round, so that one round’s dealer becomes the next round’s trash can. Dealer starts the round by drawing a card from the draw pile and adding it in his hand so that he now has five cards. Dealer chooses one of these cards and discards it, passing it face down to the player at his right. That player will pick up the single card discarded by the dealer and discard one card to the player at his right, while dealer draws a new card from the draw pile and discards another card to his right. Gameplay continues thusly with cards being picked up, discarded, and passed counterclockwise around the table until a card is passed to the trash player. The trash picks up the card passed by the player at his left, but discards it to a discard pile instead of to the dealer. If the draw pile is depleted, the trash shuffles the discard pile and passes it to the dealer who uses it as the new draw pile.Each player is trying to make their four cards into a set of four of a kind (four queens, four twos, etc.) by drawing new cards and discarding unused ones. A player should keep the four cards that are most likely to produce a matching set. No player may have more than 5 cards or fewer than 4 cards at any given moment.As soon as any player has a set of four cards and has discarded to the player on her right, he or she is allowed to take a spoon from the pile in the middle of the table. As soon as any player grabs a spoon from the pile of spoons, any other player is allowed to take a spoon as well. This usually causes a mad grab for spoons leaving one player empty handed. The player who ends the round without a spoon loses that round, and is eliminated. When only two players remain, the first person to get four of a kind is declared the winner. A player losing a round for the first time earns the letter, then at the next loss the letter P, and so on gradually spelling out “S-P-O-O-N-S”. When a player has accumulated all six letters in “spoons”, they drop out of the game. At that time, the number of spoons used in game play is reduced by one. The game continues until only one person remains. That person is the winner.

Slap

Playing the game
Shuffle the deck and deal out all cards. It’s okay if one person gets an extra card, just make sure you shift dealers every game. Do not look at the cards. Organize them in a pile and shuffle them. The player left of the dealer goes first (the non-dealer in a 2 player game). Each player take turns flipping the top card off their stock and placing them in the center (waste). The way to receive all the cards is to slap on a special combo of cards. Here is what you can slap on:

Same Suits: You may slap on the face up pile if the top card played is the same suit of the previous card.
Slap Jacks: You may slap on the face up pile if the top card played is a Jack.
Plus One:You may slap on the face up pile if the top card played is one card value higher than the previous card.
Even: You may slap on the face up pile if the top card played is equal value to the previous card.
Minus one: You may slap on the face up pile if the top card played is one card value lower than the previous card.
Sandwich: You may slap on the face up pile if the top card played is the same as the card below the one that was previously set. (So in a sandwich, say you lay down a 10 on a 5. If another 10 was below that 5, it is a legal slap)

If a player makes an illegal slap, they must place the top 2 cards off their stock on the bottom of the waste (face up).

When you make a legal slap, put all the cards from the waste on the bottom of your pile (face down).

Remember, the goal is to get all the cards.

Slap will have you and your opponents on the edge of your seats. It’s just that addictive!

Enjoy!

Fantasy Fudge

Prep: 10 min. plus cooling

cook : 15 min.

What you will need:

1. 3 cups of sugar
2. 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter or margarine
3. 5 oz. can evaporated milk
4. 12 squares Baker’s Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate, chopped
5. 7 oz. jar Jet-Puffed Marshmallow Cream
6. 1 cup chopped walnuts
7. 1 tsp. vanilla

Heat sugar, butter and evaporated milk to full rolling boil in 3-quart heavy saucepan on medium heat,stirring constantly. Boil on medium heat until candy thermometer reaches 234 F, stirring constantly to prevent scorching, about 4 minutes. Remove from heat.

Stir in chocolate and marshmallow cream until melted; stir in vanilla and walnuts.

Spread immediately in foil-lined 9-inch square pan. Cool at room temperature at least 4 hours; cut into 1 inch squares. Store in airlight container. Enjoy!

Brown Suger Brownies

Ingredients
2/3 cup butter
1 1/3 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs
1 2/3 cup all-purpose
1 teaspoon baking powder

Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease an 8 x 8-inch baking pan. Line it with parchment paper or dust it with flour.

1. Melt the butter in the microwave. Stir in the brown sugar and salt.
2. Add the vanilla and eggs to the brown sugar mixture. Stir until combined.
3. Add the flour and baking powder. Stir until combined again. Beat for two minutes.
4. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 40 minutes or until the brownies test done by sticking a toothpick or knife into the center of the pan. The brownies will be done when moist crumbs cling to the toothpick or knife. Let cool completely before cutting.

Bubbles!

What you will need:

1. 12 cups of water
2. 1 cup liquid dish soap
3. 2 ounces glycerine (available at your pharmacy)

Put everything into a 1 gallon container and shake gently to mix. Now you can blow bubbles, with styrofoam cups with a pencil hole poked into the bottom, wire hangers bent into circles, or funnels. Have fun!

Sugar Crystals

What you will need:

1. powdered sugar (dissolves easier than plain sugar)
2. boiling water
3. clear glass
4. cotton yarn
5. pencil
6. paper clip

Pour 1/4 cup hot water into a small mixing bowl and add enough sugar until absolutely no more will dissolve, approximately 1 cup. To form your crystals tie one piece of yarn to your pencil and a paper clip on the other end of the yarn. Pour the solution into the glass, and place the pencil on the rim of the glass with the weighted yarn in the solution. Several day later, as the water evaporates, you will see the crystal formations on the string. When the solution has evaporated completely they are done.

Umbrella

For this game you need 2 or more people, but the more people the more fun. Start out by saying something you would bring to the beach, but you are only aloud to bring it unless you say “ummm”.  For example, “Ummm, a shirt.” When explaining the game don’t tell them they have to say “ummm.” Let them find it out on their own. Have fun!

Stamp Book

    Do you have a collection of stamps, but don’t have a place to put them? You could make a simple book like this.

What you need:

1. three ring binder
2. lots of graph paper
3. three hole puncher
4. hinges (you can buy them at http://www.kenmorestamp.com/ on tools for trade)
5. stamps

            Punch holes in your graph paper and then insert into your binder.  Last, you can put the hinges onto your stamps onto the graph paper. Have FUN!