Handgum ("manual chewing gum"), a slime or a more common variant of the name of the toy - lizun is loved by children of all ages. Although the fashion for him began a long time ago, but today it does not pass, popularity is only growing. The jelly-like colored substance, according to doctors, helps to calm down, establishes neurohumoral processes in the children's body, develops motor skills and opens up creative talents of young talents. In order not to buy a toy with an incomprehensible composition, caring parents are considering options for how to make a slime on their own. A few simple cooking recipes are in our article.

How to make sodium tetraborate lizun

The most common option, which looks exactly like the popular toys on the shelves of children's stores, is a lizun with sodium salt of boric acid (it is also called borax or sodium tetraborate).

To make it, in addition to ½ teaspoon of the main component, the following components are required:

  • 30 grams of stationery glue, better than transparent;
  • one and a half glasses of water;
  • dyes of different colors (safer food);
  • two small containers.

Step-by-step preparation:

  1. In the first container, pour 1 cup of water with a temperature of 30 - 36 degrees, add a measured dose of borax, mix the mixture thoroughly until it becomes homogeneous.
  2. The second vessel should be filled with the remaining water (0.5 cups) and glue, add 2 to 4 drops of dyes (it is better to choose two or three colors, no more). Mix until smooth.
  3. Take the first container in your hands and, slowly tilting, pour a mixture of tetraborate into a second vessel with a thin stream.

The transformation will take place right before our eyes: from the liquid state, all the components will pass into one whole viscous substance. Such a slime is ready for the various experiments that children love to do.

Only parents should be careful that the child does not pull the slime in their mouths. After all, a toy, although made at home, has a chemical composition.

From water and starch

For those looking for a recipe with safer ingredients, a handgam option without sodium tetraborate will work. There are several types of cooking "manual chewing gum."

Materials for the first method:

  • potato starch - 200 g;
  • half a glass of warm water;
  • ½ teaspoon food coloring;
  • enameled container.

How to do:

  1. Pour starch and dye into the bowl, mix them.
  2. Add water to the mixture gradually, while constantly stirring the contents.
  3. The liquid will change the consistency gradually during the mixing process: from light jelly to elastic jelly.

Since there are no chemicals in such a slime, the toy does not “live” for long either. Two days later, she will become unusable and will have to make a new slime.

For the second recipe for lizun with starch, you need to take:

  • liquid starch, which is bought for washing, - 70 ml;
  • white PVA glue - 25 ml;
  • natural dye (gouache paints are possible);
  • high density plastic bag.

How to make a slice:

  1. Pour the starch into the bag.
  2. Add 3-4 drops of dye, not more so that the paint is not in the hands of the child during the game.
  3. Pour glue into the mixture, tie a bag.
  4. Shake it vigorously, mixing the contents, until a large clot appears among an insignificant amount of liquid.
  5. Drain, remove the viscous mass, pat it with a paper towel. The slime is ready!

Such a handmade creation is suitable for playing for 7-10 days, if stored in a sealed container.

Toothpaste Technology

This method allows you to make a particularly dense and viscous slime, and also relatively safe.

Essential Ingredients:

  • gel toothpaste - 1 tube;
  • plain dye - 2 to 4 drops;
  • sunflower oil - 10 g;
  • a small bowl.

Stages of preparation:

  1. Squeeze the contents of the tube into the container.
  2. Add paint to the paste, mix so that there are no lumps.
  3. Put the dish on a small fire. Stir the contents for 10-15 minutes. The excess liquid for the toy evaporates, the remaining substance hardens.
  4. Remove from heat, allow to cool.
  5. Hands lubricated with oil, the resulting lump must be thoroughly kneaded.

Shaving foam slime

This cooking method is especially popular with children, because the result is a dazzling white handgam.

Of course, the fathers are not too happy with such a waste of their shaving supplies, but the end justifies the means.

For the slime you need to take:

  • sodium tetraborate - 17.5 ml (3.5 teaspoons);
  • shaving foam - 50 ml;
  • PVA glue - 30 ml;
  • warm water - 100ml;
  • 2 enameled bowls.

Cooking process:

  1. In the first bowl, mix borax powder (one and a half teaspoons) and water (50 ml) until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
  2. Add glue and shaving foam, mix thoroughly.
  3. In a second vessel, dissolve 2 teaspoons of tetraborate in 50 ml of water until a homogeneous substance is obtained.
  4. Slowly pour the solution from the second bowl into the first. Stir until the lump stops sticking to your hands.

From shampoo and salt

When using this method, the handgam is not too dense, a little fluid. But such a recipe also has a right to exist.

For him you need to take:

  • any shampoo - 4 - 5 tablespoons;
  • non-iodized salt - 2 - 5 tablespoons (depending on the result).
  • capacity.

The cooking method is very simple:

  1. Place the shampoo in the bowl.
  2. Gradually pour salt into it, stirring constantly.
  3. When the mass thickens, the toy is ready.

Another method for producing lizun from shampoo requires a dishwashing liquid.It is necessary to take 150 ml of both components. For a transparent slime, you should choose the appropriate materials - without color.

Stages of preparation:

  1. Mix the ingredients in a bowl until a homogeneous substance.
  2. Put the container with the contents in the refrigerator.
  3. Soak for 45 minutes - 1 hour, take out the finished slime.

Such a toy should be stored at lower temperatures so as not to lose its ductility properties. Therefore, after the game, it is better to immediately send the slime to the refrigerator. Then they can be played for a month and a half.

Step-by-step instruction from flour

Even the smallest fidgets can use safe handgams in their games. It is simple to make it, but how much joy such a toy brings to the kids - words can not convey!

Ingredients for Lizun:

  • flour - 2 glasses;
  • water - 0.25 cups of cold and hot;
  • coloring matter.

How to do:

  1. Sift flour through a sieve into a small container.
  2. Add cold water, followed by hot water. In no case should you use boiling water, otherwise the slime will not work.
  3. Mix all components until smooth, carefully check for lumps.
  4. Add 2 - 4 drops of dyes, mix. It is better to use natural additives to colorize the juices of vegetables or fruits.
  5. Put the dishes in a cold place (outside in the winter or in the refrigerator), leave for 3 to 4 hours.
  6. The cooled mass must be removed, kneaded in the hands - and it is ready for use.

How to make a slime from PVA glue

Most recipes of this popular toy have PVA glue as the main component. It has the desired consistency, color, and also connects all the other components of the slime with each other.

I would like to highlight one particularly interesting way - magic lizun. Such a toy will be attracted to the magnet, and with the help of special ingredients it will even glow in the dark.

For him, you must have:

  • sodium tetraborate - 0.5 teaspoon;
  • PVA glue - 30 g;
  • water - 400 ml;
  • food colorings;
  • phosphoric paint - 2 g;
  • iron oxide, you can take a laser printer developer - 2 g.

Stages of preparation:

  1. Pour borax powder into the container, add 200 ml of cold water, mix so that there are no lumps left.
  2. In the second vessel, dilute the PVA glue with 200 ml of the remaining water to a homogeneous solution.
  3. Add dyes, phosphoric paint to the adhesive solution, mix.
  4. Slowly pour the contents of the first vessel into the second container, stirring regularly.
  5. It is not necessary to add the entire tetraborate solution, you should look at the consistency of the resulting mass. If it is normal, you must stop connecting the components.
  6. Add iron oxide to the mixture, mix.

The magic slime is ready. Children enthusiastically watch the toy attracted to the magnet, and at night it glows in the dark like a firefly.

Plasticine toy

You can make another slime without glue, based on the material, which is always abundant in children. Plasticine handgams are easy to prepare and relatively safe.

For them you must have:

  • 100 grams of plasticine - can be the same color or different;
  • 15 g of edible gelatin;
  • 200 ml of cold and 50 ml of hot water;
  • an iron bowl or other metal bowl;
  • plastic container.

How to do:

  1. Soak gelatin in a metal container in a glass of water at room temperature.
  2. After an hour and a half, put the dishes on a weak gas, stirring, bring its contents to a boil and remove.
  3. Knead the plasticine with your hands so that it becomes pliable and warm.
  4. Put a soft mass in a plastic container, pour 50 ml of hot water, mix, trying to make the composition as homogeneous as possible.
  5. Add a slightly cooled gelatin to the clay substance, mix thoroughly without leaving clots.

Put the mass in the refrigerator for 30 - 45 minutes.
Such a slice can serve its owner for a long time.

To increase the shelf life, you must store clay clay in a cool place.

From glue stick

The components for the preparation of handgams can be replaced with similar ones in their composition and properties. So, if there is no PVA glue at hand, and you don’t want to go to the store, you can use a regular school or office glue stick.

What is necessary:

  • in fact, the pencil itself - 4 pieces;
  • favorite component of tetraborate - 5 mg (1 teaspoon);
  • water - 100 ml;
  • dyes;
  • two tanks.

Stages of preparation:

  1. Remove the rods (adhesive) from the plastic pencil case and put them in a glass bowl.
  2. Put the container with the contents in the microwave. The time range depends on the process of converting the mass into more viscous.
  3. Add food or natural dyes, gouache (2-3 drops each) to the resulting mixture, mix.
  4. In another container, make a solution of borax powder with water.
  5. Carefully combine both mixtures, vigorously mixing the contents.
  6. Until then, it is necessary to pour the tetraborate solution into the glue until the composition of the desired consistency is obtained.

DIY transparent lick

A slice similar to a crystal pebble is not as easy to prepare as the previous versions of various “hand chewing gum”. But such a toy will become the pride of every child and the envy of friends and classmates.

This will require:

  • polyvinyl alcohol (water soluble polymer) - 100 ml;
  • sodium tetraborate - 25 g;
  • plastic dishes.

How to cook:

  1. Pour alcohol into the container.
  2. Add borax powder to it and quickly start mixing the components.
  3. It is necessary to continuously mix the liquid for 10 - 15 minutes to achieve the desired effect. It gradually thickens.

The result is a glass dazzling slime.

Playing with him too often is not worth it, because the created toy has a fairly high level of toxicity.

Such an extensive list of different cooking methods allows parents, together with their children, to make slime at home from materials at hand.

In the recipes provided, you can add additional components: sequins, polystyrene balls, beads, mother of pearl ... Fantasy will help create new interesting options for your favorite toy. Also, to remove the characteristic smell of glue, it is worth using aromatic additives or essential oils.

In order for the lizun to please the children longer, you need to remember the rules for its use and storage:

  • After playing, you should wash your hands thoroughly;
  • it is necessary to store the slime in a sealed container with a lid - a glass jar, a plastic bag, a plastic container;
  • do not put a toy near heating appliances, under direct rays of the sun;
  • dried handgams should be put in water for a short time, it will again be suitable;
  • you must try so that the slime does not fall on the carpet or other surfaces with a pile - so it becomes unusable faster;
  • colored “hand chewing gum” stains on clothes that are difficult to remove - you should be careful during the game.

Adhering to such simple rules, you can permanently keep the slime in a condition suitable for the game. Such a toy will definitely become one of the most loved by any child.

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