Outside Fun with Moldable Sand

As the weather is growing warmer my kids and I love playing outside! While I weed or work on the garden the kids have been having a blast making a massive mess with moldable sand, also known as Moon Sand.   This stuff is super easy to make!   It is incredibly messier than regular sand, it didn’t just brush off until it was bone dry (aka when the kids were done and in the house). We love messy activities at our house, but this was by far one of our messiest!   It is a ton of fun to play with.   Supplies you need: Play Sand, Cornstarch, Salt and Water. We also used a Tupperware tub and a sifter to sift our sand as our play sand was rocky. Want to make your sand even more fun? Add glitter or food coloring to brighten up their play!           Instructions to make your own “moldable sand”: You’ll want to sift the sand if it has little pebbles in it. You want the sand to be as fine as possible. We added salt (an entire container) to help preserve the mix. I know corn starch can spoil.   We made this a week ago.   Hopefully, it will last a very long time! After we mixed the sand and the salt we added our boxes of cornstarch. You want the cornstarch to be roughly 1/4th of the mixture. We used two boxes so we could have a few inches of moon sand to play with. Next add water. Mix and enjoy making balls and shapes and of course smashing them! My son loved building walls for his cars to ram into! Related: Make your own moon sand