Rainy Day Activity: Homemade Gak/flubber/slime

This is as fun to help make as it is to play with.

1 tablespoon Borax (Ours was on the bottom shelf in the laundry isle)
2 cups of water
8 ounces (1 cup, 2 of the 'regular size' white glue)
A ziplock

Mix the glue and 1 cup of water in the ziplock.  Mix the borax and other cup of water in a container (I used my measuring cup). Combine and squish, watch it gel up.  Let it sit and it will soak up the rest of the water if there is any, or you can play with it right away.

It does stick to clothes, and I wouldn't want to try to get it out of the carpet, so we play with it in a bowl and heavily supervised.

Mixing the glue and water in the ziplock

Stir stir stir!

Mash mash mash everything together.

Do you love the imitation? Such a responsibility to be watched so carefully (she ran and got 'her' camera)

We like to stick things in it, cookie cutters would be fun too

I think these animals are great. Plastic, I know, but durable and so useful for sorting and counting; beginning math. Got them in a teacher's supply store, I can't enter those stores often because they are chock full of neat things.

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