Homemade Craft Glue Recipes The most basic of the homemade glues, which you may already be familiar with, is a flour-based glue. This is a very easy glue to make. It tends to dry out over time and stop holding together whatever it was holding together, but it's fine for, say, cra...
Homemade slime is a fun way to explore chemistry concepts like polymers, cross-linking, states of matter, elasticity, and viscosity! When borate ions (from activators like sodium borate, borax powder, or boric acid) mix with PVA glue (polyvinyl acetate), a cross-linking chemical reaction occur...
Polyvinyl Acetate, also known as PVA is a glue most commonly seen in the form of white school glue. It also comes in other forms such as yellow wood glue. It flows easily from the bottle, and while generally non-toxic, it can quickly get into fabric because of how fluid it is. Remov...
Slime is made through mixing together PVA glue and a slime activator. A little bit of slime science… Its the borate ions in the slime activators (sodium borate, borax powder, or boric acid) that combine with the PVA glue to form the cool stretchy substance. MY LATEST VIDEOS That’s real...
With the added bonus that this papier mache glue is cheap, can be made from household items, is not as messy as PVA Papier Mache paste AND is good for the environment. So without further ado.. here is our very easy paper mache paste made from flour and water: Ingredients for papier ...
Making white glue is a simple chemical process that can be made with ingredients in your own kitchen. noprati somchit / Getty Images Chemistry can be like cooking, and making white glue is a simple chemical process that uses ingredients in your own kitchen. If you're "stuck" without glue...
Psyllium (also called ispaghula) is made from the husks of the seeds of the Plantago ovata plant. It is one of those botanicals that many of us keep on hand all the time, which makes it easy to whip up a batch of fun slime. But if you’re not one of those people, you may be ...
As the kids get bigger, they become more demanding. This week they wanted to make a boat that floats AND moves. So we made thiseasy self propelled boat craft! Ahomemade boat DIYis one thing.. a moving one is quite another. But we got there in the end.Pop over toLife At The Zoo...
Slime is made when a polymer interacts with a gelling agent. Typical slime recipes call for clear or white PVA glue (the polymer) and an activator (gelling agent). The activator is usually powdered borax dissolved in water, liquid starch, eye drops, or contact lens solution. ...
Naturally, it is encapsulated with sericin (a glue-like protein) as a protective layer, and pure fibroin is extracted by removing sericin after performing degumming procedures on raw silk fibers. Silk fibers are made up of 17 amino acids of fibroin together with sericin. Silk fibroin has ...