If you're not related to any school age child, you maybe missed the slime fad that's been going around for a little under a year. You can mix glue with some kind of detergent to make a super stretchy substance a bit like Silly Putty. The kids in my class last year were obsessed with it. This year's class is still in love with it, but don't talk about/play with it as much.
Still, when they saw the glue on the lab table, they were stoked.
Our lab wasn't to truly make slime. Our purpose was to mix two polymers together and notice what changes in property the substance had. So we took glue (regular white and another kind... clear or colored) and mixed it with the same amount of liquid starch. The result: either a stretchy, rubbery mass (the white kind), or a fragile rubbery ball that breaks apart when you squeeze it (the clear kind).
We had issues with retaliation earlier today. I used one of my mom's favorite catchphrases to use on her three daughters... "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord!" One of the 6th grade girls has adopted it as her favorite thing to say for all occasions. Packing up to go home, after school before the basketball game... "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord!"
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