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Slime

What you’ll need

• Borax (found in the cleaning aisle of the supermarket and about 5 bucks)
• Craft Glue. We used white craft PVA glue from Kmart. $4 but you can apparently also use clear glue or glitter glue which we’ll try next time. Oh and grab two lots so you can have at least a couple of tries.
• Water
• 2 bowls
• Glitter, food colouring, sparkles, confetti whatever you want to add to make your slime special. We needed LOTS of glitter to make it work so get a big tub.
• Air tight containers to store

And a good tip to remember……vinegar dissolves slime.

How to make it

1. Mix 1 teaspoon of borax in a bowl with 1 cup of warm water
2. In the other bowl add 1/2 cup of glue with 1/2 cup of water and mix until it’s fully combined
3. Add your sprinkles, your sparkles, your food colouring until you’re happy with the colour, the sparkle and the shine.
4. Pour the glue into the borax mix. We tried 2 batches and 1st batch we poured glue into borax, 2nd batch we poured borax into glue. 1st batch worked better, so not sure it really matters but that’s what we found. You’ll notice straight away that it starts to polymerize* which is very cool.
5. Stir like there’s no tomorrow. Get those biceps working and really stir it. Try and get as much of the borax/water combined with the glue as possible. Keep stiring, keep stiring!
6. Eventually you’ll see it come together enough that you can put it on the table and start kneading it out. Don’t worry if there’s a bit of excess water, just tip it out.