Learn how to make a bouncy ball in less than 5 minutes, using a few simple ingredients!
Materials:
- 1/4 cup Boiling water
- 1/2 Tablespoon Borax
- 2 Tablespoons Elmer's clear glue
- Glitter
Equipment:
- Measuring cup
- Measuring spoons
- Small bowl
- Spoon
Instructions:
- Pour boiling water into a measuring cup, then add the borax.
- Stir well until the borax is dissolved. Set aside to cool.
- Add the clear glue to a small bowl.
- Add glitter in your favorite color. Stir until the glitter is well combined with the glue.
- Add just enough glitter that you can see the color in your mixture (about 1/4 teaspoon or so). If you add too much glitter your ball won't have the cool see-through look to it.
- Add 1 teaspoon of the borax mixture to the glitter glue and stir.
- Add another teaspoon of the borax mixture and stir until the glue becomes jelly-like and too difficult to stir anymore.
- Pick up the thick slime and squish it together with your hands, making sure there aren't any sticky glue spots remaining.
- Begin to shape it into a ball.
- Roll the ball in-between your palms, like you would a ball of cookie dough. It will still be wet at first, and difficult to roll, but just keep going! It will become easy to roll fairly quickly.
- Continue rolling until you have a nice round shape.
- Wet your fingertips with extra borax mixture and smooth down the outside of the ball. (You can also put the ball in a round mold to give it a perfect sphere shape.)
- Now have fun playing with your bouncy ball! Your DIY bouncy ball is complete!
