Fantastic Flubber

Flubber photo from OMSI flubber experiment

This flubber recipe is so simple, you'll be making it in every color of the rainbow before you know it!

What you'll need:

• Two bowls
• 1 1/2 cups of either white or clear Elmer's glue
• 4 cups water
• 4 Tablespoons borax(all natural laundry soap found in the laundry section at your supermarket)
• Liquid food coloring or liquid water color

What you'll do:

• In 1 bowl, mix 2 cups of water with the Elmer's glue.
•  Squirt in a few drops of color.
• In separate bowl, mix 2 cups of water with borax until completely dissolved.
• Add borax mixture a LITTLE at a time.  Add some, stir some, add some, stir some.  I recommend mixing with your hand until the flubber is the consistency you want it to be.    DO NOT add the entire borax mixture.  You will have cement instead of flubber.

Optional additions:

1. For sparkle flubber, add small amounts of glitter to the glue mixture before adding the borax mixture.  Add until you have the amount you want.  Glitter will come off on hands as it is played with, so keep this in mind when choosing how much.
2. For glow in the dark flubber, add 1/2 Tablespoon of glow in the dark powder to the BORAX mixture before adding to the glue mixture.  
3. Clear glue makes clear flubber.  There is no need for extra coloring if you don't want to.

Quick fixes to the recipe: If your flubber is too thick and falls apart instead of stretching, add small amounts of water and mix with your hands until desired consistency.

Store flubber in a ziploc bag and use over and over again until it starts to dry out and flake off.

Things to do with flubber:

1. Use a straw to blow flubber bubbles by sticking one end into the straw and blow slowly.
2. Put flubber on an old cheese grater and watch what happens.  
3. Put a flubber ball on top of a small up-side-down glass and watch what happens.
4. Ask your kids what they think will happen before you do every experiment.  Talk about the differences or similarities between the forecast and what actually happened.

If flubber gets on clothing or in carpet, vinegar takes it right out.  Mayonnaise will take it out of hair.