Lickus with his hands: photo examples and step by step master class of making lickus

Licker is such a very popular toy among children. It is also called a slime, which in English means slime. Outwardly this substance looks really like something slimy, amorphous, flowing.

This jelly-like material has unique properties. This jelly does not fall apart and is easily assembled. This ingenious product, so beloved by children all over the world released the company Mattel back in 1976, but the fashion for licker does not die with time.

The secret of the toy's success

The secret of the inexhaustible popularity of the toy lies in one of the characters from the American cartoon "Ghostbusters. This character was named Slimer, and it was translated into Russian as "Lickspoon" Children are fascinated by playing with Lickspoon, because we have to deal with the so-called non-Newtonian liquid. Properties of this liquid looks spectacular, for children it is quite a fascinating spectacle.

Judge for yourself, a very viscous jelly, usually a bright color, not spilling over the edge and just gathering. Left alone, the lick will quickly spread over the table area, but if you apply a sharp impact, it will flatten, even tear if you hit it.

Traditional Slime Recipe

Sodium tetraborate (borax for short) and humic gum (a polysaccharide) were the original and most famous recipe for slime. These substances are not dangerous, but it is better to avoid getting them on your mucous membranes.

Alternative formulations

The polysaccharide can be replaced with other ingredients (for example, glue), and borax can be replaced with other thickeners, some even resort to the use of lens solution, but more often with boric acid and other substitutes.

In addition to the classic licker on the Internet you can find a lot of information about its other varieties. We are talking about a variety of master classes on "Lick your hands at home" There are recipes for glossy, foam, bubbly, transparent, metallic, velvety, snow, oil and other different in color and texture products.

The main components and their substitutes

The main constituent elements are the adhesive solution (there are different variants) and the activator. You can do without the use of glue. For this basis toys take starch or dishwashing liquid.

All other components do not have to add, but children want variety, ringing colors and visual effects. After all, you can do without food coloring, but it usually gives a bright color, without glitter, artificial snow, but they still look very impressive.

As an activator in addition to sodium tetraborate, borax and lens fluid, some use boric acid and Naftizin solution (who do not know - this is vasoconstrictor drops in the nose)

How to make a lick with his own hands

The production of this miracle is not very difficult, and everything is done quickly and without any expensive gadgets. There are many ways and recipes to create a slime. About each of them you can read in more detail further

Recipe for a lick made of PVA glue and sodium tetraborate

Buy sodium tetraborate in one of your nearby pharmacies, it is inexpensive and you need only half a teaspoon. Buy another colorless glue and a harmless dye, and you also need two plates for mixing.

Step by step master class

1. Pour one cup of warm water, pour half a dessert spoon of boron.
2. Mix until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
3. In another bowl, pour 100 milliliters of slightly warm water and add 30 grams of glue and some food coloring.
4. Everything is mixed until a homogeneous structure
5. Then you mix the contents of both bowls.

The toy is ready. Keep it in a tightly closed container.

Recipe with PVA glue and starch

Materials:

• PVA glue
• starch
• thick polyethylene bag
• food coloring.

You can take the liquid starch, but if you do not have it, take dry starch and dilute with cool water. At the rate of a spoon of water goes with two spoons of starch. Instead of food dyes, and they are known to be the most harmless, you can use gouache paints.

What we need to do:

1. Takes a bag of polyethylene, in it pours 70 milliliters of starch diluted with water.
2. A little dye is added to the bag.
3. 25 grams of glue is added.
4. Tie the bag and stir for about 5 minutes until a thick homogeneous mass is obtained. 5 Drain off the remaining excess liquid. Take out and lick the lick, wiping it off first.

Soda slime

Materials: baking soda, shampoo, natural dye, water. Everything is mixed by eye, the main thing is to get a thick, homogeneous substance. The size of the toy at the output depends on the degree of thickness of the shampoo.

Description of specific actions:

1. A little shampoo is poured into a container.
2. Water, dye, baking soda are added.
3. Everything is mixed until a homogeneous, thick mass

Lime is ready! Wash your hands after playing with it. And do not forget that the storage condition is necessarily a closed container.

Shower gel slime

The necessary materials:

1. shower gel
2. a container where you will mix the ingredients
3. Shampoo

Master class .

1. You take a bowl and pour a tablespoon of shampoo into it.
2. A tablespoon of shower gel is added to shampoo.
3. Put the mixture in the refrigerator for 24 hours

This lick has a mandatory storage condition: sub-zero temperature

Lick made of laundry gel

Materials:

1. laundry gel
2. harmless dye
3. glue (preferably stationery)
4. Disposable cup, disposable gloves.

How to make

1. Pour the stationery glue into the cup on its fourth part.
2. Pour a little natural dye.
3. It remains to add 40 grams of gel powder, mix everything.
4. Now do not do without rubber gloves, because the lick should be kneaded, as you do with dough. After that, the product is ready for use. Once the lick became too soft - put it in the refrigerator.

Recipe for transparent licker

Transparent licker with your own hands can be made from borax, water and stationery glue. This is the easiest way to make it. The proportions are as follows:

1. Half a teaspoon of borax.
2. One half teaspoon of borax 50 ml of water
3. 40 ml of stationery glue

Pour warm water into a bowl, pour borax. Pour warm water into a small bowl and add 0.5 tsp. of borax (boric acid salt). Stir everything thoroughly until the powder is completely dissolved. In another bowl, pour the glue and there gradually add the borax solution, stirring in the process. Once the lick has gained the necessary viscosity, then the lick is done! Keep it in a sealed container.

Photo examples of homemade goo