Saturday evening, after Jacob injured himself while jumping on the trampoline, and was resting with a heating pad on his back, his father found a recipe online for slime. The promise of being able to do a real, honest to goodness, no foolin’ scientific experiment with his dad today was rather cheering to The Boy.
And so, today, in the interval between morning mass and the special Rite of Continuing Conversion held at the Cathedral this afternoon for all the RCIA candidates in the diocese, they rolled up their sleeves and got to work concocting all manner of yuck in my kitchen. I sent my junior photographer in there to document their progress, and below you see the saga of the measuring, the mixing, the kneading, the unfortunate watery first batch, the cooking of the second batch, and the final, magnificently slimy results.
(To view the gallery, click on the top-left thumbnail and it will enlarge. Then just click on the photo and it will go to the next one in the series like a slide show.)
Pauline Holston
10 Jan 2011Well! What can I say???? This is TRULY slimy! The kids came in here to display it to me in all it’s GORY-NESS! I told Geneva it made me want to puke! And she replied, “Yeah, it LOOKS like puke!
nettie
10 Jan 2011I don’t see how anyone could have offered a more satisfying comment to a young boy than your observation. 😀
Pauline Holston
10 Jan 2011p.s….I love the smile on Jacob’s face in the last picture~ Says it all!
nettie
10 Jan 2011Yes it does! 😀
Katie Troyer
10 Jan 2011Is there any value in the slime? Or is it an experiment?
nettie
10 Jan 2011There is definitely fun value, of course, but also the scientific process of measuring and mixing and evaluating the results and modifying one’s procedure to achieve the desired results. 🙂