3/4 cup water (with or without food coloring)Īdd both ingredients to a microwave safe bowl and mix well. 1 Tablespoon Psyllium Husk (look in the fiber supplement section at your grocery store) So we found a less common brand and did the job just great! Here’s How to Make Slime without Glue or Borax Unfortunately we were only able to find orange flavored Metamucil which would have given us orange slime (which would have been fine but we wanted the option to make a ton of colors). A common form of this is Metamucil, which you can buy at any grocery store. You read that right- the main ingredient in this recipe is Psyllium Husk Powder.
Who on earth would have every guessed that the same kind of fiber that helps with digestive issues can also make a safe sensory activity?! With little sister still being at the age where she will put things in her mouth out of sheer curiosity, I decided I wanted to make a slime recipe that did not include any of the scary ingredients (glue, borax, contact solution). I had heard a good amount of slime horror stories from other mothers, but here were. I had tried to put it off as long as I could. If your child enjoyed making fluffy slime, they’ll love exploring and experimenting with our Science Expeditions subscription! Or shop our STEM kits and products.I don’t know how it happened, but some how my four year old heard about slime and came home asking to make it. If you remove stress (holding it in your hands), the slime will flow slowly and ooze like a liquid. If you apply force to slime (slapping it), the stress causes the slime to act like a solid. Slime is a non-Newtonian fluid, which means the way it flows changes under stress.If a hagfish is stressed, it releases a small amount of slime (less than a teaspoon) which instantly expands by 10,000 times! To stay safe at night, parrotfish produce mucus cocoons to sleep in. When opossums feel threatened, they play dead and release a smelly mucus to ward off the predator. Some animals produce slime as a defense against predators.When slime gets stretched, the polymer chains unfold and straighten out, which is why slime can stretch without breaking. Before slime is stretched out, its polymer chains are all scrunched up. Glue contains flexible chain-like molecules called polymers.If they don’t, start a discussion using the questions below!
During this activity, natural questions may come up.
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