Just made slime with my grand. I have questions

[Marthe48]

When did slime become such a thing? From something to handle to Baskin-Robbins slime of the month?

My granddaughter brought a slime kit to use. It has 2 5 oz. bottles of Elmer's metallic glue, and 2 3 oz. bottles of Magical Liquid to mix with the glue to make slime. It isn't really slimy, more like taffy, and it seems after we are done making it, there's not much you can do with it. And who makes something for kids called Magical Liquid, with no ingredients listed? What if kids think they can drink it and become invisible? I'd like to know what's in it, and have an antidote lined up!

I hope my granddaughter had fun, as I pondered on what we were doing :/

[PoliticAverse]

1. Kids these days with their "slime". All we had was Silly Putty and Play Dough. n/t

[Marthe48]

7. :)

n/t

[Scrivener7]

2. I always made it with contact lens solution, glue, baking soda and food coloring.

Maybe the "magic liquid" is the contact lens solution.

[Marthe48]

8. Thanks for the ingredients

I saw saline solution in one of the online recipes, and felt better.

[questionseverything]

3. It's been around at least four years

My granddaughter has made it from scratch, from kits

Done tons of colors, different glitters added to it

At one point I called the doctors office to make sure there wasn’t something dangerous going on (she seemed possessed)

The nurse just lol and said it’s just the current fad, no worries

Look at it this way, when she is making slime she isn’t staring at a screen

[Marthe48]

5. We made different recipes from scratch

Just like cooking recipes, at least we know what's in it!

Thanks

[Harker]

4. I had some powder to which water was added

that resulted in a plastic tub of pink slime back in about 1965.

[Marthe48]

6. I missed that

We made our own play dough, for years and years.

[Harker]

9. Super Stuff... another fine product from Wham-O.

Super Balls and Frisbees made being a kid even more fun.

[Marthe48]

11. All the fun stuff was made by Wham-O

lol