Lizun from sodium tetraborate: step by step instructions

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Let's talk about the favorite toy of all children - the slime! A toy with such an unattractive name is a sticky-wet, jelly-like mass of bright color and odorless. Lizun does not mold like plasticine, although it has a certain plasticity, but it adheres well to surfaces, slowly sliding off them. This ability and pleasant texture have made this seemingly unremarkable mass one of the most famous inventions in the gaming industry.

History of handgum

The ancestor of the substance, known in the countries of the former USSR under the name "lizun", was an acid-green slime toy, which was produced by Slime.

The name slime stuck to the slime after the release of the film "Ghostbusters" on television. Ghost, in honornamed this jelly-like toy had a similar shape.

The beneficial effect of handgam on the development of the child

Another name for this sensational sticky plasticine is handgum, which means "hand" and "chewing gum".

Scientists who have studied handgam claim that playing with it has a beneficial effect on the development of fine motor skills of the hands and can serve as a relaxing massage.

So, how to please a child with such a wonderful toy that develops imagination and motor skills? Of course, you can go and buy it in almost any store, but it's safer and more fun to make it yourself.

How to make slime at home without sodium tetraborate or with it with your own hands, and will be discussed in our article.

Safety rules for making handgum

Before you learn how to make a sodium tetraborate slime, let's get acquainted with the basic safety rules, as failure to follow them can be fraught with serious he alth problems:

• Wear an apron (or clothes you don't mind) and gloves, as you will be using dye when working.

• If you are making "smart" plasticine together with your child, make sure that the glue and borax do not get into his stomach. If these ingredients are ingested, rinse and consult a physician.

• When mixing ingredients, use a container that you will not eat from after the process is complete.

• Shelf life of homemadeSlime can be from a week to two weeks, depending on the ingredients that make up its composition.

• Wash your hands thoroughly after games.

How to make such a toy with your own hands at home? Slime without sodium tetraborate or with it is made in approximately the same way, as will be described later in the article. The safety precautions are the same for all methods.

Make "smart" plasticine from sodium tetraborate

There are many ways to make a handgam yourself, today we will analyze the most common of them.

Lizun from sodium tetraborate is considered the most durable. To increase its shelf life, carefully follow the manufacturing technology and choose the highest quality materials.

By the way, tetraborate itself is an antiseptic, so if a child drops a slime containing this substance, you can not worry.

You can buy a solution of borax in a pharmacy, in hardware stores, in art stores and even in the construction market.

There are two ways to create a handgum from sodium tetraborate - with water and without water. In the first case, your slime will turn out a little transparent, in the second - more matte.

Waterless Method

Materials and ingredients you will need:

• PVA glue - 1 bottle.

• Sodium tetraborate (aka borax solution), it is better that it be its solution in glycerin - a few drops.

• Food coloring orgouache.

• A container in which you will mix everything.

• Wooden stick.

Cooking method:

• Pour the glue into the container (all or just a part, depending on how many and what size slimes you want to get).

• While constantly stirring the glue with a wooden stick, add 1 drop of borax solution to it until the mixture reaches the desired consistency.

• Add a couple of drops of gouache or food coloring and mix thoroughly with rubber-gloved hands.

Sodium tetraborate slime made according to this recipe can be rinsed with water if necessary.

Water method

Materials you need to make a slime toy out of sodium tetraborate:

• A glass of cold water.

• PVA glue - 1 bottle.

• Sodium tetraborate (aka borax solution), it is better that it be its solution in glycerin - a few drops.

• Food coloring or gouache.

• A container in which you will mix everything.

• Wooden stick. Cooking method:

• Mix glue and water 1:1 in a container.

• Pour a lot of dye.

• Mix everything thoroughly.

• Add two drops of borax solution and stir until smooth.

• If the mixture is too thin, then add some more sodium tetraborate.

Sodium tetraborate slime is stored in the refrigerator, in an airtight package. When hardening your homemade"smart" plasticine, add some water to it.

If you want a clear slime, replace the PVA glue with stationery clear glue in this recipe.

Slizun, which includes glue and starch

If you think a toy that includes sodium tetraborate is unsafe and unsuitable for playing with a child, or you couldn’t buy a solution of borax, then your option is a slime at home without sodium tetraborate.

Materials required to make handgum:

• Liquid starch for washing clothes (if you do not find starch in liquid form, dilute it yourself in a ratio of 1:3).

• PVA.

• Food coloring or gouache.

• Thick file.

Cooking method:

• Pour 85 ml liquid starch into a clean, dry file.

• Send a little gouache or a couple of drops of food coloring to the starch.

• Pour 30 ml of PVA glue into the resulting mixture.

• Knead the mixture in the file with your hands, stirring it carefully.

• After most of the composition turns into a thick slippery clot and a little liquid remains at the bottom of the bag, remove the slime from the bag and remove excess moisture from it with paper or a cloth.

• Slimer is ready.

If you see that the slime is too sticky or completely non-plastic, then you have calculated the proportions incorrectly (in the first case, there is an excess ofglue, in the second - starch).

Remember that in addition to harmless starch, this toy contains glue, so make sure that the child does not put it in his mouth.

It is important to know not only how to make slime without sodium tetraborate, but also how and how much to store it in the future: store it in a closed container at room temperature for no more than a week.

Soda and detergent slime

There are a huge number of ways to create "smart" plasticine, similar in its properties to the world famous slime toy.

If your goal is a slime without sodium tetraborate and glue, then we have a couple more options, here is one of them.

Materials and tools you need:

• Dishwashing liquid (like Fairy).

• Baking soda.

• Water.

• Food coloring or gouache.

• Container for mixing ingredients.

• Wooden stick (perfect for sushi stick).

Cooking method:

• Pour 150 ml of detergent into the container.

• Add 1 tbsp. l. soda.

• Stir ingredients thoroughly.

• Add as much water to the resulting mixture as needed to make the resulting consistency suit you.

• Add a few drops of dye (this item is optional, because often the dishwashing detergent already has a bright enough color that is transferred to the slime).

Lizun without PVA glue andsodium tetraborate is ready. Keep it in the refrigerator.

Longest expiration slime

As you probably already noticed, all the above homemade slimes have a fairly short shelf life (no more than 2 weeks), this is due to the fact that they have almost no preservatives and substances that will protect them from drying out.

If you want to make handgam with a longer shelf life, then we have such a recipe. The duration of the existence of "smart" plasticine, the manufacturing method of which we will now describe, is from 1 to 2 months.

By the way, you will need very few ingredients for this recipe, and you almost certainly have them at home:

• A brightly colored transparent shower gel without granules.

• A brightly colored transparent shampoo.

• Mixing bowl.

• Wooden stick.

Cooking method:

• Pour 150 ml of shampoo into a container.

• Add 150 ml of shower gel to shampoo.

• Stir ingredients thoroughly and gently, being careful not to form foam.

• Put the container with the future slime in the refrigerator for a day.

Such a slime must be stored in the refrigerator, otherwise it will simply melt. As with everything else, make sure your child doesn't taste handgams and wash their hands thoroughly after playing with them.

The safest slime

If all the above methods do not seem safe to you and do not inspire confidence in you, but you want to please the child, then we offer youmake a beautiful and interesting toy (slime) without sodium tetraborate and starch, without shampoo and dishwashing detergent, without glue and washing powder.

The shelf life of such a toy is not very long, and it is noticeably different from the original in appearance, but it is safe, and you can be sure that nothing will happen to your child, even if he takes handgams in his mouth.

So, here are the ingredients you need to make safe "smart" clay:

• Wheat flour.

• Sieve.

• Hot water.

• Boiling water.

• Container for mixing ingredients.

• Fork or whisk.

• Food coloring (you can even use beet juice or spinach for example).

Cooking method:

• Pour 4 cups of flour into the prepared bowl and sift it through a sieve.

• Add half a cup of ice water to the flour.

• Pour half a glass of boiling water there.

• Mix everything as thoroughly as possible, the mixture should be smooth and without lumps.

• Now it's time for the dye: add a few drops to the mixture and mix again.

• Put your future safe slime in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.

Lizun is ready, now you can be calm for your child.

Other ways

There are many more ways to make slime. Here are some of them: from washing powder, from a solution of borax and dry polyvinyl alcohol (butsuch a handgam needs to be boiled), from plasticine and gelatin, magnetic, etc.

In this article, we tried to describe in as much detail and clearly as possible several completely different, but at the same time very simple ways to make slimes. We hope we were able to answer all your questions.