#100sciencepoems 29: Recipe For Slime

Apparently the cool thing Among primary school age kids is making homemade slime to play with. Herewith, a recipe, cribbed from BBC Good Food.

Take just 100ml of PVA

And ½ a teaspoon of bicarbonate

Food dye: a little goes a long long way

A spoon of contact lens solution’s great

Put in the glue and saline stuff as well

Then add the soda and begin to stir

In food dye, of the kind that comes as gel

Add glitter, if that’s something you prefer.

First stir, then knead. At first you’ll find it sticks

But soon it’s smooth and pliant, every time

Provided everything is in the mix

You’ve got yourself a lovely lump of slime!

I don’t know if you’d call it scientific

But all your kids will think that it’s terrific!