It's Slime Time!

Do you want something to do with your kids that will keep them occupied for a while!?  Try this project that we just got done doing!  It's known as Gak or Flubber or slime, and there is a recipe out there to make it with Borax, but I found, on Pinterest, a non-Borax recipe - and it WORKED!!!  

What you need:

1 cup of Elmer's Glue

Food Coloring (gel or liquid)

1/3-2/3 cup of liquid starch

In a plastic bowl (I used ones that I could just throw away), add one cup of Elmer's Glue and food coloring.  Stir until you have the color you desire.  

Next, stir in the liquid starch a little at a time.  The original recipe called for 1 cup of liquid starch, but for Jennah we used maybe 1/3 of a cup and Kylee just a tad more.  As soon as you pour and stir the liquid starch in, it starts to thicken.  In fact, Jennah instantly said, hey, it looks like eggs.  

See Jennah's mouth?  That's the
"whoa - look at that" look that I
love doing these projects!

Keep stirring in a little starch at a time until you are able to pick it up all together.  It'll still be "sticky", so fold in more liquid starch, little by little until you are able to play with it without it sticking to you.  If it starts getting sticky, just add a little starch to it.

Then have FUN!  This was a VERY easy project, and the girls played with it for over an hour!!!  Make sure to not let your kids play with it near carpet, and be careful of it sticking to clothes.  (Yes, I may have some special cleaning to do.)  But, not too bad.  The girls had fun!


This idea came from this site:
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/05/making-gak.html