Icky, sticky, ooey, gooey fun!

 

Looking for a fun and easy activity to add a tactile activity to your homeschool or classroom curriculum?  Make Flubber!

 

Flubber is a great sensory idea for kids (and adults) of all ages!

 

 

Flubber. Slime. Putty. Whatever you’d like to call it, it’s fun, ooey, gooey and is super easy to make!  There’s just one rule to making flubber…get your hands in it! Smush it, mush, squish it with your hands so that you can make sure it gets mixed well.  All you need is  three simple items, and you can make flubber in no time.  You will definitely be a hit with your own children or children in your classroom.

 

 

 

 

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Benefits of sensory play

Young children benefit greatly from sensory experiences.  They use their senses to explore and discover the world around them.  Exposing children to tactile activities helps with the growth in physical abilities, cognitive and language skills, and social and emotional development as well.  Tactile experiences are sometimes overlooked when educators prepare early childhood environments, but the importance of sensory/tactile experiences is something that should not be left out of a young child’s everyday learning activities.

There are many ways to add sensory/tactile experiences to your curriculum; play dough, water tables, sand tables, and shaving cream are just a few.  There are endless everyday items that can be used as sensory experiences for young children.

 

I have made this particular flubber for many, many years.  It was always a favorite in my classroom.  You can use cookie cutters, scissors, rolling pins, and more with it. You can cut it, roll it, or spread it out…whatever you’d like!  It adds a little different element to tactile learning than play dough does, and it is just as fun!  Below are the simple and easy steps to making your own flubber.

 

Making Flubber

Materials needed:

Purex Sta-Flo Liquid Starch

Elmer’s School Glue

Colorations Washable Tempera Paint (any color)

Bowl

1 cup measuring spoon

1 teaspooon measuring spoon

Silicone spatula (optional)

 

                      

 

 

STEP ONE:

Measure out 1 cup of the Purex Sta-Flo Liquid Starch into the measuring spoon.  Pour it into the bowl.

 

                           

 

STEP TWO:

Measure 1 cup of Elmer’s School Glue into the measuring spoon.  Pour it into the bowl with the liquid starch.

 

 

STEP THREE:

Measure 2 teaspoons of Colorations Washable Tempera Paint and pour it into the liquid starch and glue mixture in the bowl.  I chose orange to go with orange tempera paint. You can choose your favorite color or choose a color tha goes with the holiday or season, have fun with it!

 

                    

 

 

 

STEP FOUR:

Using the spatula, mix all of the ingredients together.  At some point, you will want to use your hands, so that everything gets mixed together well.  Keep mixing until all of the liquid starch, glue, and paint are blended well.

               

 

 

 

STEP FIVE:

Next, take the flubber mixture and place it into a ziploc bag.  It is normal for it to be very wet and stringy, so don’t worry about that.  Once it dries a bit, it will be fine. Once it is in the bag, you can mix it a little more by squishing it and mushing it.

 

 

Things to consider

The flubber will need time to sit and form.  You will need to let it sit for at least a few hours, maybe longer.  You want it to not be super wet, and for all of the liquid starch and glue to be as one.  If it is still stringy and really wet, let it sit for awhile longer.  Keep the flubber stored in the ziploc bag in between uses.  Flubber lasts anywhere from two to four weeks, depending on how often it is used.  Use your discretion on if you feel the flubber should be thrown out.

 

 

 

 

Be cautious with flubber. Since it is made with glue, it can easily get stuck to clothes or hair. If this happens, use water to remove the flubber. Flubber is such an easy, fun, and simple way that you can add a great tactile element to your curriculum or just as a fun activity for your kids.  It’s awesome for adults too!!

 

Enjoy!

Anitra J.

 

 

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