Last year Zak got some water beads in one of his science kits. And he played with them several times. Eventually, they got lost, swept up, left outside, etc. At the store the other day, I happened to notice several boxes of them on a shelf in the toy area. We bought two boxes, each containing three different colors, and totaling 1000 beads. The color sets we chose were: Pink, purple, clear and Red, yellow, green On Wednesday evening, while Daddy and the big kids went to the fair, Kit and I soaked some water beads. She wanted "Pink!" Each color comes sealed in a small plastic bag of 150 beads. In the box there were three packets of purple, two of clear, and two pinks. We let the water run in the sink until it got warm, because I was guessing they might grow faster in warm water and patience is not Kit's most shining attribute. I filled a plastic container with about an inch of warm water. Snipped of the top of the bag with s...
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