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How to Make Flubber Using Gain

There are few things more attractive to a 10-year-old boy or girl than something gooey like flubber. Flubber is a slimy silly putty. Flubber has a few other names, such as gak or slime. It is easy to concoct, and is fun to handle and to use to play jokes on unsuspecting adults.

Things You'll Need

4 tsp. of Gain laundry detergent
Food coloring
2 cups of standard Elmer's white glue
2 3/4 cups of warm water
Several mixing bowls

Instructions

- 1
  Mix the 2 cups white glue and 1 1/2 cups of warm water together. Stir them until they are thoroughly blended and make a pale milky liquid.
- 2
  Add your food coloring. The more you add, the brighter the color will be.
- 3
  Mix the Gain and the rest of the warm water together in a separate bowl. Use a different spoon to stir this, and make sure that the Gain and the water are thoroughly mixed.
- 4
  Combine the two bowls of fluid. They will make a light blue or purple milky mixture unless you have added food coloring. Then they will simply remain whatever color you dyed the glue and water.
- 5
  Continue stirring steadily. Do not slosh the liquid, but keep stirring in an even manner. The two liquids will become semi-solid as you stir. After 10 or 15 minutes, you should have a good yield of flubber to play with.

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