This easy to make SLIME will gross you out in the BEST way!
Our friend, Professor Figgy, shares his recipe for the ooey-gooeyiest GLOW SLIME imaginable!
You will need:
Tools and Materials:
Plastic or glass container
Needle-nose pliers
Standard highlighter
Water
Latex gloves
Mixing bowl
Jar (with lid)
Elmer's School Glue Gel
Craft sticks
Borax
- Start by making “glow water.” Fill container with 2 cups hot water.
- With pliers, pull out felt writing tip and carefully pry off bottom of highlighter and remove felt ink tube from inside.
- Place both the felt ink tube and the writing tip in the hot water and let sit for 4 to 6 hours.
- Once water has cooled and ink has saturated the solution, use gloved hands to squeeze any remaining ink out of the felt tube. Discard highlighter pieces.
- To make slime, create one solution in a bowl by combining 1/3 cup glow water with the entire contents of a 4 oz. bottle of Elmer's School Glue Gel. Stir mixture with craft stick until thoroughly combined.
- To the jar, add 3/4 cups glow water and 2 teaspoons Borax. Secure lid tightly on and shake mixture until borax dissolves as much as possible.
- Pour solution from jar into mixture in bowl, stirring continuously with a craft stick.
- Once solutions are combined, remove the resulting glob from the bowl and work it in your hands for 3 to 5 minutes until it comes together and is less wet and slimy.
- Store your slime in a resealable plastic bag or air-tight container.
- Slime will “glow” under black light!
TIP:
Science Behind the Project: When mixed with water, Borax creates an alkaline (basic) solution that reacts with glue to loosely tie its long molecules together, producing a putty-like material called a polymer. In simplest terms, a polymer is a long chain of molecules. Everyday materials like the plastic used to make soda bottles and the nylon fabric in a windbreaker are made up of polymers. The slime glows under black light because the ink in highlighters (that is in the glow water) contains a chemical called pyranine that is a phosphor, which absorbs radiation (like ultraviolet light from the black light) and emits it back as visible light.


Photography by
Susanna Blavarg
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