Slime Receipe

This "slime" is easy to make and fun to investigate.

Materials:

• White Elmer's school glue
• Borax (found in the laundry section of your grocery store)
  
• Water
• Food coloring (optional, but fun)
• Plastic baggie
  
• Mixing container and stirrer
  

Steps:

1. Make a Borax solution by mixing one tablespoon of Borax in a cup of water.
2. Make a water and glue solution, using slightly more glue than water. A ounce or two of glue is a good amount to start with.
3. Add food coloring, as desired.
   
4. Add a couple of tablespoons of Borax to the water-glue solution and mix until the consistency changes.

Your slime is ready to play with. Store it in the baggie when you are done.

Variations:

• Try different proportions of glue, water, and borax
  
• Try a 4% polyvinyl alcohol solution instead of the white glue
• Add shaving cream or baby powder to the mix
• Add some glow-in-the-dark paint

What did you find? What other variations can you create?