If your kids love playing with Play Dough or clay, then they’ll love flubber. One of the great things about making flubber is that it’s not just a fun craft project for the kids, but it’s also a mini-science lesson. Kids will ooh and ahh as they watch the mixture come together and transform from a liquid to a solid.
The recipe for flubber is easy. You’ll have 2 bowls of ingredients that you will then combine to make the flubber.
Bowl #1:
1 cup of white glue
3/4 cup warm water
food coloring
–Stir to combine
Bowl #2:
1/2 cup warm water
2 teaspooons Borax
–Stir to combine and dissolve Borax
Pour bowl #1 into bowl #2 and watch the flubber magic begin. Here’s a video to show it to you in action.
How to Make Flubber – The Best Kid’s Craft Video
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Let the kids mix-up the flubber with their hands. That’s what makes this craft fun for kids. They get to get their hands dirty! Store the flubber in an air-tight container and you’ll be able to enjoy playing with it again and again.
Photo of Flubber by Mellissa Hillier
