Translucent Silly Putty

I've been thinking about this for quite some time and we finally made it today - translucent silly putty.  I wasn't sure if it would work, so we made a small batch.  It worked and was really cool on the light panel (which is where it was intended to be used).  The pictures really don't do it justice.  It was pretty cool and my son played with it for an hour as I sat and tracked his play from time to time.  

**This silly putty sticks to clothes and carpet/cloth furniture.  My experience is that it washes out of clothes, but others have reported not being able to get it out of clothes.**

You need clear Elmers Glue, Liquid Starch, and a bowl to mix it in.  I used the entire bottle of glue and then about 1/2 that amount of starch (not equal parts).

My son hates letters, so I was shocked when he started sticking letters in the silly putty.

COOL!!  Translucent!!

We added some liquid water color and got a translucent aqua color! (Im sure you can use food coloring, too.)

Its hard to tell, but they really are translucent.  :)

My son really enjoyed blowing bubbles in the silly putty!  

He then went and got his bat gems and tried sticking them in the straw.  "They're too big."

So then he got his scissors and some mardi gras beads and started cutting the beads and sticking them in the straw.

Cutting mardi gras beads.

:)


- AK (MESE, MECD)

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