We were both really excited about making a homemade bouncy ball!
I just happen to be a super blessed mommy of a little boy who absolutely loves BALLS!!! Typical little boy I know. 😉 When I saw this recipe for making homemade bouncy balls from the Money Saving Mom I knew we just had to try it!
Elijah was so excited!
We gathered all of our supplies and headed outside. If you attempt to make your own be sure to do this activity outside as it can be quite messy!
Measuring.
Mixing…growing more excited with every moment.
I did help stir at this moment. Just when I thought the consistency was just right:
SPLAT!
I don’t who was more disappointed when our bouncy ball didn’t bounce at all! It just went splat! Eli picked it up a couple of times and tried again but it went splat every time! 🙂 I have no idea what we did wrong. We followed the recipe to a T. You would think for someone who graduated 1 class short of a chemistry minor I wouldn’t have had any trouble with this but alas it was a complete fail in one sense.
Look at that face. It doesn’t work mom!
In another sense our little project was a complete success. The goal really wasn’t to make a bouncy ball. Instead it was to spend some quality time with Elijah while making a great memory. In this sense it was a smashing success. For the next couple of days every time we would go outside on the sidewalk Eli would talk about how the bouncy ball didn’t work. He kept saying “It doesn’t work Mom! The bouncy ball is broke.” Precious that’s what that is!
Elijah had lots of fun playing with the bouncy ball fail.
Exploring his world.
I’m still not exactly sure what went wrong with our DIY Bouncy Ball experiment. Maybe next year we will try again. For now I’m thinking we will try to add making flubber to our to-do list this week. 😉
Emerson Family 
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