Friday, August 27, 2010

Slimer

We made slime yesterday. It was easy to make and the kids have been playing with it and fighting with each other over it ever since.

Leah put it on her head as a hat but quickly learned that it will goop to her hair. It washed out fine and we all got to laugh at her, I mean with her, so no harm done.

We colored it purple because Alana helped with the recipe and she is girly. They all think the next batch should be green. Here's the recipe:

8 oz white glue in a large bowl.
Add 1 cup water and stir until blended.
Add paint/food color to desired color, set bowl aside.

In a small bowl stir together 1 1/2 tsps borax powder and 1 cup warm water until dissolved.

Slowly add the borax mixture to the glue mixture while stirring constantly for two minutes. Knead the sticky slime with your hands until it's smooth and stretchy.

Store in an airtight container.

5 comments:

Kent Kate & Afton said...

Where do you get borax?

Alli said...

I got it from the grocery store, in the laundry soap aisle.

tessa said...

So fun. I'm bringing Ellis back. He'd be in heaven!

Unknown said...

You're such a fun mama!

kvhawker said...

Oh, my, could Peter look any more like his Daddy? I thought that you had merged Jeff with an old picture of Ryan! Amazing!