Pin Accomplised: Glow-in-the-Dark Slime

I hereby confess . . . I am seriously craft-challenged.

When others walk into the craft or fabric store they delight in the potential & possibilities laid out before for them.

I, on the other hand, walk into a craft or fabric store and my brain becomes feeble, overwhelmed. I don't see potential, I see unfinished projects waiting to clutter up my life and continually remind me the ADD got the better of my intentions once again.

But my guys love to do projects & crafts (as long as there are no flowers, lady bugs, fairies or princesses involved), so I'm always on the lookout for projects that are relatively simple - not too many items on the supplies/ingredient list, not too many steps.

When I spotted this pin for Glow-in-the-Dark Slime from Katelyn @ Domestic Charm, I knew I had another ASAP Pin.

Source: domesticcharm.blogspot.com via Lollie ~ on Pinterest

The list of supplies were simple and relatively cheap (under $20 for everything!) -

• 4 oz. bottle of Elmer's glue
  (Katelyn recommends clear or blue, but all I could find at the store that day was the good ol' fashioned white, it dries clear, so I figured it would work okay.)
• 1 1/3 cups warm water
• 2-3 Tablespoons glow-in-the-dark paint
• neon food coloring
  (another failure on my supplies acquisition trip - no neon food coloring, so I grabbed bottles of neon craft paint & prayed)
•  2 teaspoons Borax soap

Katelyn's instructions:

• mix together bottle of Elmer's glue and 1 cup of warm water
• stir in the glow-in-the-dark paint and food coloring (or in my case, neon paint)
•  in a separate bowl mix together 1/3 cup warm water and 2 teaspoons of borax, stir until borax is dissolved
• add 2 Tablespoons of borax solution to the glue mixture, stirring continuously - do not add all of the borax solution, the more borax solution you add, the stiffer your slime will be

We invited our pals from up the street, Sera & Leah, and their mom, Dana, to join us for an afternoon of slime-makin' fun - and oh what fun we had!

How did our slimy experiment turn out? 

Check out my pinning pal, Cynthia's, corner of the blogosphere - Oh So Pinteresting - for my final report.