How To Make Slime With A Glue Stick

These few everyday items can create a fun slime without a trip to the store. Make a few batches and mix and match food coloring to get endless colors! The consistency can vary depending on how much glue you start with; however, this super-easy method makes it very simple to alter the rest of the ingredients to make your slime have just the right feel. 1. Chop the glue sticks into thin pieces; about the thickness of a few quarters or smaller, into a small bowl (any container that is smooth will work, but maybe opt for something somewhat disposable). You’ll need about two glue sticks or so, but if you are using ends of older glue sticks, you can approximate and still get a good consistency.

2. Using a plastic spoon or knife, start breaking up the small glue pieces. Try to break it up as much as possible before the next step, but don’t worry, it will still be a little chunky. 3. Add just a small amount of water at a time; the glue does not need to be entirely submerged. 4. Stir together the glue and water until you achieve a foamy consistency where the glue has somewhat broken down. You may need to add more water to get there, so just add a few drops at a time. Kids can help at any step! 5. At this point, you’ll want to stir until you see very minimal lumps. Then the fun part - adding food coloring!

Depending on how much glue and water you used, you’ll likely only need about 5-10 drops. Adding more won’t hurt! 6. After the food coloring is in, make sure you give it a good stir, and everything is scraped from the edges of the bowl (a few lumps, even at this stage, won’t hurt anything in the long run). If the color is not quite as vibrant as you want it, now is the time to add more and get the perfect shade. 7. Now, simply add a medium-sized squirt of contact solution and keep mixing! The liquid solution will start to solidify as you stir, and when it becomes slime you will see it start to stick, as a whole, to your spoon. If that’s not happening quite yet, just keep adding contact solution a little bit at a time (just like you did with the water), until the consistency seems right. Working with kids, this is a fun step where they can be the “slime tester” while an adult slowly adds the contact solution. This recipe is so easy to make if you just add each of the ingredients a little bit at a time. In the end, you should have a thick but stretchy substance that can be pulled and molded into any shape you want!



NOTE: You can use this technique of removing vignetting only if you are processing RAW files in Lightroom. RAW file with a slight edge vignette captured in-camera. Vignetting removed using “Enable Profile Corrections”. As you can see in the screenshots above, the RAW format file had a hard vignette as this photo was shot using 50mm lens at f/1.8. In the second image, the vignetting has almost been removed with the help of one of the Adobe Lightroom’s handy features called “Enable Profile Corrections”. This feature automatically detects the lens make, model, and profile, if it is available in the Adobe database. Lightroom has the lens profiles of almost every manufacturer, except for a few such as Samyang. This magical feature then corrects the vignette as well as distortion in your photo automatically. You can manually adjust them as well using the sliders.