Gak Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup Elmer's glue
food coloring, your choice of color (optional: coloring can
stain!)
1 cup liquid starch
Pour glue and coloring in plastic container.
Stir until color is thoroughly mixed in.
Add starch a little at a time, stirring with a spoon or kneading
with your fingers as mixture thickens.
Keep stirring until mixture holds together like putty.
Test with your fingers: if too sticky, add more starch in
small amounts until mass is smooth and rubbery.
Food
Color stain removal information.
Oobleck
Recipe
Another interesting substance is called "oobleck."
It also acts like a liquid until pressure is applied.
Ingredients:
Safety of Borax
The following recipes contain Borax, which is a toxic substance. The experiments should not be done in the kitchen nor near food or food preparation areas. Limit the time children are exposed to it, and tell them never to put it near their mouths, nor eat until their hands are washed. If they have an upset stomach or rash afterwards, push fluids, and the symptoms should go away. When interest has waned, use to kill ants somewhere away from children and pets.
Amy's Flubber
Recipe
Amy found this one that worked very well. Needs bowls.
Mix thoroughly
In a separate bowl, mix thoroughly:
- 1 1/3 cups very warm water
- 2 level teaspoons Borax
Mix the contents of the two bowls together kneading until
it is fully combined. Discard any remaining liquid.
Glorax
(Flubber) Recipe
- Put 3 T. of water into a ziploc bag.
- Add 1 T. of white glue.
- Add 2 heaping T. of Borax
(laundry detergent). It must be Borax.*
Shape into a ball. If the mixture is too sticky, roll the
ball in a little bit of Borax. Enjoy stretching this elastic
substance.
Silly
Putty Recipe
This will bounce and pick up pictures from the paper just
like the name-brand stuff.
- Add: 1/2 cup water to 1/2 cup Elmer's glue (Not School Glue!)
- Mix and add 3 drops of food coloring (optional)
- Make Borax solution:
Take 2 tablespoons borax (You can buy this at a grocery store
or online) and add to 1 cup of water and
stir.
- Add 1/2 cup of Borax
solution to water and glue mixture
- Stir and store in a plastic bag
Mix well. Add food coloring if you wish. Let it dry about
an hour. When ready, it will be smooth and rubber-like. Store
in an airtight container.
Note on where
to get starch
Dear Ann:
Thank you for your interest in our Faultless Starch products.
You may purchase our products online at www.agelong.com/
or by calling toll free to 1-800-892-8022. If you provide your
address we will forward an Agelong
Catalog.
We have a new Faultless
Liquid Starch that is available at K-Mart. You may wish to
call ahead to speak with the manager. If it is not on the shelf
they can order it in for you. This product will work great for
many craft projects.
If you advise us of your location, we will advise if any stores
in your area carry the Faultless
Dry Starch. It is more difficult to locate, but always available
online or through Agelong Catalog.
Again, thank you for you interest in our products.
Sincerely,
Marcie Bonin
Home Economist
Email: info@Faultless.com
Note: Agelong Catalog changes often. If starch links do not
work, go to the home page
and look under "Clothes
Care."
Note on
where to get Borax
The Dial Corporation acquired the consumer products division
of U.S. Borax in 1989 and can instruct you where to buy Borax
in your area. Their phone number is (800) 457-8739, or please
visit their web site at www.dialcorp.com.
Borax is also available on Amazon.com.
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