This is a Mom's adventures of not totally paying attention to directions. My first attempt at making the rubbery, gluey, fun stuff known as flubber.
The wrong recipe:
Instructions:
1 cup glue
2 teaspoon dry starch
1 cup very warm water divided
food coloring as needed
Search all over town for the cheapest glue. Consider just getting the little bottles. Go to teacher supply store and shell out $12.99 for 1 gallon of Elmer's glue. Go to grocery store for dry starch. Find twenty kinds of spray starch, no dry starch. Go to another store, find spray starch and liquid starch. No dry starch. Remember that there must be a way to make flubber from liquid starch. Convince children your not nuts, Liquid starch should work. Argue with know-it-all eight year old all the way home form the store.
New recipe (Still wrong!)
1/2 cup of Elmer's white glue
1/2 cup of liquid starch
Mix ingredients together. Keep mixing together. Chase three year old around house because her hands are sticky, slimy. Wash Three year old hands. Keep mixing. Pour out excess liquid. Keep mixing. Send five year old to bath to wash goop out of his hair. Keep mixing.
Reassure oldest child that yes, this is working. Spend one hour making flubber, forty five minutes cleaning up flubber, and ten minutes play with flubber before throwing the whole mess out.
Ingredients No. 3
Dry starch is Borax 20 Mule team. Buy at Target.
1 cup glue
(there is plenty left over from first attempts. Apologize to husband for having to clean up mess of spilled glue in the garage. Salvage remaining glue for further experiments)
2 teaspoon Borax. Tell son that yes, this is the right stuff.
1 cup very warm water divided
food coloring as needed
Flubber
Recipe
The wrong recipe:
Instructions:
1 cup glue
2 teaspoon dry starch
1 cup very warm water divided
food coloring as needed
Search all over town for the cheapest glue. Consider just getting the little bottles. Go to teacher supply store and shell out $12.99 for 1 gallon of Elmer's glue. Go to grocery store for dry starch. Find twenty kinds of spray starch, no dry starch. Go to another store, find spray starch and liquid starch. No dry starch. Remember that there must be a way to make flubber from liquid starch. Convince children your not nuts, Liquid starch should work. Argue with know-it-all eight year old all the way home form the store.
Starch?
New recipe (Still wrong!)
1/2 cup of Elmer's white glue
1/2 cup of liquid starch
Mix ingredients together. Keep mixing together. Chase three year old around house because her hands are sticky, slimy. Wash Three year old hands. Keep mixing. Pour out excess liquid. Keep mixing. Send five year old to bath to wash goop out of his hair. Keep mixing.
Reassure oldest child that yes, this is working. Spend one hour making flubber, forty five minutes cleaning up flubber, and ten minutes play with flubber before throwing the whole mess out.
Third
Try!
Ingredients No. 3
Dry starch is Borax 20 Mule team. Buy at Target.
1 cup glue
(there is plenty left over from first attempts. Apologize to husband for having to clean up mess of spilled glue in the garage. Salvage remaining glue for further experiments)
2 teaspoon Borax. Tell son that yes, this is the right stuff.
1 cup very warm water divided
food coloring as needed
