1. Place 1 tablespoon of water in a small plastic cup. Add ¼ teaspoon of borax. Mix until as much borax dissolves as possible. This is your borax solution. If you would like your slime to be a certain ...

These substances often form into a chain. Glue is also a type of polymers. A solution of glue with borax and water produces a slimy material that is elastic enough to clump up to make a smile.

Kathleen Quinn, of Rockland, said her hands began to feel really “hot and tingly” after she used Elmer’s Glue, water and the household cleaner Borax to make the do-it-yourself slime at her ...