Slime {Craft Tutorial}

After I did Oobleck with the kids, they were screaming for more gooey projects... so I found a recipe for Slime and figured we would try that! They loved it (though not as much as the oobleck), and played with it for at least an hour after we made it.

Ingredients Needed:

One larger bowl filled with 1 1/3 c. Warm Water (must be warm, but need not be hot)

2 TBSP Borax, added to same bowl of water, mixed well

In smaller bowl, 3/4 c. warm water (once again needs to be warm)

one Cup of Glue

Food Coloring

Mix the glue and food coloring into the smaller bowl. Mix well! Try not to get it on the table like me... :D

Add the contents of the small bowl to the large bowl all at once. Let sit for about 2 minutes to set up and then lift it out of the water. It will feel really slimy, but as you pack it together it will gain a little more on the solid form.

We found that this slime snapped apart if you pulled on it, if you made a ball and left it on the table it would flatten out, and you could put two pieces together and they would slowly meld together.

It's not as fun as playdoh, you can't really make shapes out of it, but they had a lot of fun playing with the funky texture and just messing around with it.