Help. Is water malleable?

[Guest]

Can people please tell me if you class water a malleable material eg investigating ice cubes.

[catma]

I'd call that learning about the properties of materials/matter - water has 3 states and ice is one of them. why do you need to define it?

[Guest]

Got to do malleable lesson observation and wondered if ice cubes could be incorporated. Trying to think of not just using dough.

[JacquieL]

If you look up the definition of malleable it is something that can be shaped, stretched or or changed by pressure and without breaking or cracking. i wouldn't consider ice cubes to be a malleable material by that definition.

Edited September 9, 2014 by JacquieL

[Upsy Daisy]

I agree with Jacquie. Malleable materials are those that children can explore by changing their shape through quite intense physical interaction. Ice doesn't fit the bill for me at all.

I can see why you want something more imaginative than dough. Baker Ross do some lovely wax that's lovely to mould and squish when it's around body temperature and very easy to make into candles then squish up and make into all sorts of different candles because it feels so nice to work with.

There are lots of other ideas on this old thread from 2006

http://eyfs.info/forums/topic/5365-malleable-materials/

[Panders]

I agree with Jacquie. Malleable materials are those that children can explore by changing their shape through quite intense physical interaction. Ice doesn't fit the bill for me at all.

I can see why you want something more imaginative than dough. Baker Ross do some lovely wax that's lovely to mould and squish when it's around body temperature and very easy to make into candles then squish up and make into all sorts of different candles because it feels so nice to work with.

There are lots of other ideas on this old thread from 2006

http://eyfs.info/forums/topic/5365-malleable-materials/

I enjoyed reading through that Upsy Daisy, a little wander down memory lane - and still so relevant for today. Lovely to see some posts from members who have either left the Forum or don't contribute as many posts any longer too.

[Upsy Daisy]

I enjoyed reading that old thread too :1b

[Aunt Sally]

What about cloud dough as a slightly different medium to play dough - flour and baby oil - its lovely!!

[Panders]

I don't know if it's just me, but I have over the years tried out so many "home made" recipes for malleable substances but they never work out as well as I hoped they would, nothing that has really made me say WoW! I've made our own moon dough, moon sand, sand mousse, and gak! the best things have probably been gloop saop flakes and warm water and cornflour and water. I did get excited about gak, but that never really did what I thought it might, but we will keep on making it until the hairy basil seeds run out!

[Guest]

What is 'gak'?

[Cait]

Gak

 

[Guest]

Thanks Cait!

[lashes2508]

We have been using ice this week and making ice tunnels with coloured water salt and pipettes ,

Next week we are making snow dough with baking soda and glycerin that's malleable

Edited January 10, 2015 by lashes2508

[Guest]

Do you have the recipe for snow dough, please lashes?

[lashes2508]

2 cups of baking soda to 1/4 cup of water , you can add colour and glitter if required and a little glycerine , knead and then stick in freezer to make cold , as an extension you can mould into snowballs and make them explode with pipettes and vinegar !

[Guest]

Can you reuse by putting back in freezer?