Mock Silly Putty - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    Elmer's Glue-All white glue
    4% Borax solution (20 Mule Team Borax)
    water
    5 oz. paper cup
    food coloring (optional)
    paper towels
    plastic bag (Ziploc type)
Preparation
    Prepare Borax solution by adding 4 grams of Borax to 96 grams of water.
    (Or you can add 1 tablespoon Borax to 1 cup water.) Measure 25 ml. of glue into paper cup.
    Add 20 ml. of water and stir well.
    Add 5 drops of food coloring; stir well.
    Add 5 ml. Borax solution and stir.
    Remove the solid material and place on a paper towel.
    Pull the solid off the stirrer.
    This material will be sticky for about 1 or 2 minutes.
    Store in a Ziploc bag or other airtight container.

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