Homemade Shia Pet

Slime recipe

The recipe for this is from Our Best Bites and worked great. I found the Borax (20 Mule Team Borax) in the cleaning products section of our local grocery store. Judging by Benjamin's face, this was a very cool project!

Homemade Slime

1 teaspoon borax powder

1 1/2 C water, divided

4 oz (1/2 C)  Elmer’s glue, clear or white (we used white)

food coloring

Add borax powder to 1 cup of water and stir to dissolve.  Set aside.  Pour glue into a medium mixing bowl and add 1/2 C water. Add a few drops of food coloring until desired color is reached and then stir to mix glue solution until smooth.  Pour the borax mixture into the glue mixture and watch the solids start to form.  Stir for a few moments and then use your hands to gather the mass.  The mixture will be very soft and wet.  Keep kneading until it firms up and feels dry.  Discard excess liquid in bowl. The more you knead and play with the slime the firmer it will become.  Store in a ziplock bag or air tight container and the slime will keep indefinitely.

En francais:

Aux Etats-Unis, la poudre Borax est utilisee comme agent blanchissant pour la lessive

1 cuillere a cafe de poudre Borax (sodium borate, sodium tetraborate, ou disodium tetraborate)

250 ml + 120 ml eau

120 ml de colle liquide blanche (la marque Elmer est la plus courante aux US)

colorant alimentaire

Melangez 250 ml d'eau avec la cuillere a cafe de Borax. Reservez.
Versez la colle dans un saladier et ajoutez 120 ml d'eau. Melangez.
Ajoutez quelques gouttes de colorant alimentaire. Melangez.
Ajoutez le melange Borax+Eau et melangez.
Vous allez voir apparaitre une masse solide. Melangez pendant quelques secondes puis allez y avec les mains.
La masse sera d'abord tres molle est mouillee.
Continuez a malaxer jusqu'a ce que le melange s'affermisse et s'asseche.
Retirez l'exces de liquide.
Plus vous jouez avec le melange, plus il s'affermie.
Gardez dans un sac ziplock ou un container plastique.       
 

 

Dr Seuss Oobleck?

So this is one of the messiest projects we did so far but it was a lot of fun and is really very simple. Just try to do this outside so you won't have to worry about the "stuff" getting all over the house! Both Benjamin and I had a lot of fun playing with it.

This idea is from Skip to my Lou and it was definitely worth it!

Mix 2 cups of cornstarch and 1 cup water in a bowl. If you want to color it, add a few drops of food coloring to the water before adding to the cornstarch. It takes some effort to mix the water and cornstarch. Try it out (hit it with your fist and pour it off a spoon to see if it works) before you give into the urge to add more water to make it easier to mix. The more you play with, the drier it gets but you just need to add water to it.

This thing is really neat, if you squeeze it, it becomes solid but as you let go, it turns back liquid. You can drop it to make stalagtites, cover your hand for a "melting hand" effect and many other ideas.
Benjamin also spent a lot of time "drawing" with it on our concrete driveway and made some cool abstract designs with it that were all cleaned up by the next rain.

WARNING: I tried to keep it for later in a plastic container but I think it fermented and a week later when I opened it again, it was smelling terrible and I had to open the windows and get rid of it.

En Francais pour ma maman:

Melanger 500 ml d'amidon de mais (je pense que c'est l'equivlent de la Maizena) avec 250 ml d'eau dans un saladier. On peut ajouter quelques gouttes de colorant alimentaire a l'eau avant de melanger avec l'amidon de mais. Au debut, il est difficile de melanger l'eau et l'amidon mais en y mettant les mains, cela finit par se melanger. Voila, c'est pret!
Il ne reste plus qu'a le faire degouliner, s'en enrober les mains.... Plus on joue avec et plus le melange s'asseche. Mais un peu d'eau et c'est reparti.

Attention: J'ai essaye de garder le melange pour plus tard dans un container en plastique mais apres une semaine, le melange a fermente et l'odeur etait pestilentielle.