A NOTE ABOUT ADDING COLOR! If you want to use food coloring, you must add it to the water BEFORE you reach the 1 1/2 cup limit of water. A half-bottle of food coloring will produce a medium shade
In second bowl:
Mix 1 cup HOT water 3 teaspoons Borax
Stir until Borax dissolves
Pour Borax solution into the glue mixture. Stir. When it clumps on your spoon, it is ready to be kneaded. It will initially be "wet" as you knead it, then will become "dry" Flubber.
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"In the midst of winter, I learned there lives in me an invincible summer" Camus (maybe a paraphrase) Plants: 9229 | From: Maine | Registered: Oct 2004
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quote:Originally posted by catlover: Uhhhh....this may sound like a dumb question but I'm asking anyway...what is flubber used for?
You don't know what FLUBBER is? Didn't you ever see The Absent Minded Professor? (with Fred MacMurray) How about The Nutty Professor? (with Eddie Murphy)
Flubber is somewhere between Silly Putty and a Super Ball (or a cross of the two?)...
Am I correct Merme?
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"In the midst of winter, I learned there lives in me an invincible summer" Camus (maybe a paraphrase) Plants: 9229 | From: Maine | Registered: Oct 2004
| Seeded: 66.63.78.107
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Its a glob of glop that you can roll in a ball and bounce, or flatten out and press onto a pix in a comic book to create a pix on the Flubber... It's a kids toy that usually ends up sitting on a shelf and turning to goo, or it gets stepped on and is permanently smooshed into the carpet...
There is no practical use for Flubber unless you have the REAL stuff... in which case you can modify your car so that it can fly, or make super high jumping basketball shoes with it!
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sounds like some ewwe gooey stuff if you don't keep using it.
I want the reallll stuff....can you picture Christina (my daughter) flying over all that San Diego traffic to get to college.... hang on for the ride....weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....singing George, george, george of the jungle...Watch out for that treeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Okay, I've gone bonkers already this morning.
That silly putty is fun to use in a hallway to bang off all the walls and linoleum floor...tee hee hee...uhhhh... just be careful it doesn't hit and break the light!!!
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Think of all the people who'd love to get a wad in their Christmas Stocking... make 'em feel like kids again!
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"In the midst of winter, I learned there lives in me an invincible summer" Camus (maybe a paraphrase) Plants: 9229 | From: Maine | Registered: Oct 2004
| Seeded: 66.63.78.107
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Merme - I made this last night with my little people (6 & 7's) it was a huge hit. Even the adult leaders were saying it was the coolest thing ever. I didn't have time (and didn't want the mess) to stir in a bowl so I dumped it all together in a gallon size zip lock bag, squeezed the air out, double bagged and everyone took turns kneading it. It came out great and was a good group project.
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You don't know what FLUBBER is? ![[perplexed]](graemlins/dingbat.gif)
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Its a glob of glop that you can roll in a ball and bounce, or flatten out and press onto a pix in a comic book to create a pix on the Flubber...![[grin]](graemlins/grinnnn.gif)
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for that treeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ![[lala]](graemlins/lala.gif)
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