Children's book week / 2001 / activity pack

The Greedy Guts’ Gross-Out Gathering Have a Sick As party. Start the gathering off with a gross dinner, and then have a go at making Flabber, Belly Button Lint Clay and Gas Bubbles. You’ll find some recipes below, and links to where you’ll find more on the net. 

Dinner

• Vile Bile (see Recipe for Edible Green Slime)
  http://www.cyber-kitchen.com
• Tapeworm Treats (spaghetti) [and what could you call the meatballs?]
• Eyeballs (grapes)
• Discustard
• Spare ribs

After Dinner

Games Try:

• Pea in a Pot ~ who can throw the most peas into a pot
• Pimple Popping ~ squeeze a grape. The one that pops the longest distance wins.
• Try the Alimentary Canal Cruise Colour-In and song:
  http://www.sara-jordan.com/activities-colorcontest.shtml

Flabber Flabber is a form of flubber. Recipe from www.makingfriends.com Ingredients: Mixture 1: ¾ cups warm water 1 cup Elmers Glue (or Clag) Food colouring (Gruesome Green? Putrid Puce? Vomit Vermillion?)   Mixture 2: 2 tsp Borax ½ cup warm water   What to do: Stir mixture 1 together in a bowl. Stir mixture 2 in another bowl. Mix both very well. Pour mixture 1 into mixture 2. No need to stir, just reach in and pull out globs of flabber! Work it for 2-3 minutes.

Bellybutton Lint Clay Recipe from www.melborponsti.com/crafts/ Ingredients: 1 ½ cups lint from the dryer (let’s hope you have very linty clothes!) 1 cup water ½ cup regular flour 2 drops wintergreen mint flavouring old newspaper paint   What to do:

	Place the lint in a saucepan and cover it with water.
	When the lint is saturated, add the flour and stir until it is smooth.
	Add drops of wintergreen oil flavouring
	Cook the mixture, stirring constantly, until it forms peaks and holds together
	Pour it onto newspaper to cool
	Shape and model organs, limbs, or gross-out ghoulies, and allow to dry. (Can take 3-5 days) Paint and decorate as required.

Gas Bubbles www.melborponsti.com/crafts/ 6 cups water 2 cups dishwashing liquid 3/4 cups light corn syrup Mix all the ingredients together in a dishpan. Put in a jar. It should be used right away.