Just in Time for Halloween: How to Make Your Own Slime!

JeanneSager — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:32:00 GMT

If you're too old for slime, you're too old to be using a computer. Seriously, Gramps, don't you know the evils you can find on this here machine?

There's just something so satisfying about sticking your hand in a big bucket of glop and making it fart. Or squeezing said glop in your fist and letting it dribble out between the fingers (bonus for fart noises).

Since slime brings out the kid in all of us, and Halloween is the ultimate kid holiday, I've scoured the 'net and found the best slime recipe out there, courtesy of InfoBarrel, to make your very own fart-tastic holiday fun:

Ingredients:

water
white glue (like Elmer's™)
borax
food coloring (the weirder the color, the creepier the ooze)

How to do it:

In one mixing bowl, combine 1 cup of water with 1 teaspoon borax
Stir until the borax has completely dissolved.
In a second bowl, combine 1/2 cup of water with 1/2 cup of glue.
Add food coloring until the mixture is the desired color.
Combine the two mixtures.
Once combined, the mixture will become more difficult to stir, so get rid of your spoon and start working the goop by hand.
When it seems like it's well mixed, remove it from the bowl (some colored water left behind is OK).

Your slime is ready! To store, slip slime into a zippered freezer bag and keep in the refrigerator.

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JeanneSager — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:39:00 GMT

It's sacreligious, I know, but sometimes I dream about life without Play-Doh. Yes, I know it's good for promoting their little creative minds. I know it's good for a half hour of keeping them out of your hair.

It still sucks.

I dream of the day I won't find a dried-out hunk of pink stuff wedged between the pillow and the cushion on the couch. I dream of flipping open the newest issue of New York and not finding the pages gooed together by an orange wad that - after carefully prying it from the pages without tearing them - will leave an oily stain behind that reminds me of the Victoria's Secret's smuggled into my kid brother's room.

Yes, like MLK, I too have a dream. It centers heavily on sweeping out the space beneath the dining room table and not having to crawl in with a putty knife to scrape hardened-on chunks of colored dough off of the floor. It's no great manifesto for the rights of all mankind, but I'm willing to start small.

I'll liberate the nursery school moms from the time spent swapping recipes for the homemade version. Not only do we buy the stuff, but to save absolutely no money and waste a lot of time, the masses huddle in suburban kitchens mixing and kneading and dyeing. And to thank us for our efforts, our kids mash our glorious creations into the heating register in the bathroom and fashion a hat for that cat that will require clippers to remove.

Excuse me, I just heard the timer. The glop's done boiling. Time to dye it bright pink for the princess.

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