Here's the blog if you want to check it out--http://tottreasuresnorthbay.blogspot.com/2012/06/slime.html
It said mix 1 1/2 cups of liquid starch with 1 1/2 cups of clear glue. Add food coloring. Mix. That seemed easy enough. The little girl on the blog looked like she was having a great time. It seemed like the sort of thing my kids would get into.
I aquired my liquid starch and clear glue (emptying Kmart of the 3 bottles it had on the shelf). The kids were excited!
Saturday morning we started the mixing....and mixing...and mixing. I mixed by hand with a spoon. I stopped before all the starch was absorbed. It was starting to look like slime. I separated what I had into different containers and added the food coloring. That part looked great. We got vibrant colors.
The kids started playing with it. It was more runny than I anticipated. And it took some time playing with it before it was more than just noodle-width strings. But it was family fun. And it was the second time this weekend I heard, "You're the greatest mom in the universe." It's been a long time since I heard that, so that was a pretty good pay off.
I wonder if I'll ever try this again...especially since it cost about $10 to make, making the price of playdoh look pretty good. I wonder, if I ever tried this again, if using the electric mixer would make it happen a little more quickly. I wonder if I reduced the amount of liquid starch a smidge if it would turn out less runny.
Time will tell.
Just to keep the record straight, by the next day it had congealed quite nicely. The colors mixed to make a lovely coke-bottle/fish scale green. We've had a lot of fun with it.
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