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The Aha! moment of making slime is seeing instant chemical change that turns your glue mix into a completely different rubbery substance. You will have great fun playing with your finished slime: shaping, spinning, blowing, pinching and stamping it into different shapes.
Mixing glue, borax laundry detergent and color creates an instant example of chemical change and is a fun toy to play with. Use slime as a make and take-home experiment or combine individual slimes to create a large tactile blob as part of your classroom science curiosities.
The glue is made up of flexible molecules called polymers. They usually slide by each other much like a liquid. Borax mixed with water creates borate ions. The ions link the glue polymers together so they can’t flow as easily, creating the rubbery slime substance.
