Craft Recipes: Silly Putty and Gooey Gunk

How to Make Silly Putty: This is a craft recipe for a homemade version of silly putty. You can even store this silly putty in a plastic egg just like the silly putty you buy in the store! This makes a great gift or party favor to give to kids, especially for an Easter party! But this silly putty is fun all year round. And you don't need a plastic egg to store it in. You can store it in any small container or even a baggie. This recipe makes about 3 tablespoons of silly putty. If you want more you can double or triple the recipe.

Step 1: Gather the following ingredients to make homemade silly putty: 1 tablespoon of liquid starch (look in the laundry aisle), 2 tablespoons of white glue like Elmer's glue, food coloring (optional).

Step 2: Put the liquid starch in a small bowl.

Step 3: Add the white glue to the liquid starch and stir until mixed. You can stir with a toothpick if you like.

Step 4: Let the mixture sit for 5 minutes.

Step 5: Add a drop or two of food coloring if you like and mix well until the color is well blended.

Step 6: Mix the putty a bit more. The more you mix it, the better it gets.

Step 7: Remove the putty from the bowl and use the just as you would use silly putty. Stretch it, bounce it, pick up pictures from a newspaper, or just mold it into shapes.

Step 8: Store the silly putty in a plastic egg or in any other small container. The putty will actually be better to play with the next day. If it dries out, you can dip it into warm water and knead it until it is soft again. It will last several days.

How to Make Gooey Gunk: This is a craft recipe to make gooey gunk. Gooey gunk is a slimy, stretchy gunk of goo that any child will be thrilled to play with. This is also a very interesting recipe to make because it involves mixing two solutions together to make the gooey gunk. Making gooey gunk is the perfect craft recipe for a school science project. When you make the gooey gunk, you will be using paint. You can use red to make lava gunk, green to make slim gunk, black to make tar gunk, etc.

Step 1: Gather the following ingredients to make gooey gunk: 1 cup of water, 1 and 1/3 cups of water (in addition to the 1 cup), 1 cup of white glue like Elmer's glue, 4 teaspoons of Borax laundry powder (Borax is in the laundry detergent aisle), 2 tablespoons of liquid tempera paint or 10 drops of food coloring.

Step 2: Make Solution A by adding 1 cup of water, the white glue, and the paint or food coloring in a bowl. Mix until well blended then set aside.

Step 3: In a separate bowl, make Solution B by mixing 1 and 1/3 cups of water with the Borax. Mix until the Borax is completely dissolved.

Step 4: Slowly pour Solution A into Solution B but DO NOT mix!

Step 5: Roll Solution A around in Solution B about four or five times.

Step 6: Lift Solution A out of Solution B and knead it for about three minutes.

Step 7: Play with the gooey gunk right away or store it in an airtight container or plastic zip lock bag.

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