You need Elmer’s school glue, tap water, borax, and food coloring.
My daughter Heather watched her two boys and her sister/my daughter Kelly’s three girls today. Heather, never shy of a challenge, decided to make slime.
Kids love slime, primarily because it’s slimy. I think that this was a pre-Halloween experiment into the manufacture of slime as well as how well the kids liked it.
The girls made red slime and the boys made green slime. Two teams of slime makers, simultaneously trying to make the better batch of slime. It’s always a competition.
I simply served as a lab assistant and photographer.
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| Adding glue |
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| A pause for the cause |
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| Adding the borax |
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| Adding food coloring |
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| Mixing the slime |
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| Playing with the slime |
Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly do you do with the slime once it's made? Inquiring minds want to know.
All I remember making when I was a kid was those mountain things in water. Okay, not mountains – stalactites.
It's time for slime!
It's a type of elastic play-doh. They squeeze it, stretch it, and make objects like snakes, starfish, birds, cookies, etc. with it. Since they make it themselves, it's extra fun. It doesn't cost but a few cents to make and you can toss it when the fun is done.
Soon you'll have grandkids and all the motivation in the world to help them make slime.
Very impressive that slime was made so very neatly!
I'm hoping to have a grandkiddo old enough to do these sorts of projects with in the next couple of years. Looks like a good time was had by all.
Up here we just toss a quart of slugs in the blender….
I have one girl yet unmarried. Otherwise, I think we're stuck at 8.
Always the practical person.
And fun was had…LOL
When that time comes I'll need your awfullest slime recipes.
And you shall have them. Put it on your hands when you dole out candy on Halloween…
Yes, but I'm also working on your project. Almost complete.
As the science geek that I am, I'm loving this comment a lot. I went though it with my girls and it was the best of times. We bonded over slime and erupting volcanoes… but that's another story.
Well – that makes sense.
Fun with kitchen science and children teaches them the basic tenants of combining disparate compounds to make another one. When they get into the granularity of that, and how it actually works, I think that the hands-on that they had is one of those ah-ha moments.
If they keep playing with it and store it in plastic baggies, it will last months, though – with the continued consistency of slime.
Sweet pics. Of course there's slime and "slime." The kids were playing with the fun stuff, the other sort should be behind bars but somehow they're sitting in the Senate and Congress. Or, like a famous old slime hag, "lost in the woods."
Thanks for the formula!
I'll store it away until our grandson is old enough to have fun with it….
I wonder if a child, experimenting with common items in the kitchen threw them into an outhouse one day – and Hillary emerged? I'm not saying that's how it happened, but I refuse to discount the possibility.
I'm sure that your grandson will make a wonderful scientist one day.
Ah-ha moments and granularity… now that makes for an interesting blog comment.
Breakfast fun?
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