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Does your bathroom basin look like a messy science laboratory experiment in the making?
Has your cornflour gone AWOL, again?
I understand.
I too am the mother of two slime-making addicts.
They have been hard at it now for 12 months.
Their Instagram-on-trend nanny introduced them to the finer arts of slime-making this time last year during a productive play date at Springdale Heights.
I’m a huge fan of hands-on pursuits for kids; crafternoons trump screen-time, hands-down always.
When our youngest “accidentally” dropped and trampled some sticky pink slime into her sister’s neutral bedroom carpet and then covered it up so I didn’t notice it for weeks, I got over it quickly enough after the initial rant. A rug is now strategically placed over the slime stain until I can work out a miracle fix.
So while I swept the slime-making craze under the carpet – so to speak – momentarily last year, the rest of the world couldn’t get enough of it.
The biggest How To search on Google of 2017 was: How to make slime.
New Zealand and Trinidad and Tobago edged out Australia as the top searchers worldwide, followed closely by the United States and Britain.
Related search queries were: how to make iceberg slime, how to make butter slime without clay, how to make jiggly slime without borax and how to make blu tack slime. Yet others wanted to know how to make fluffy, cloud and, wait for it, cream cheese slime.
To navigate the slime-making epidemic at home we set some ground rules.
- Bedrooms are slime-free zones.
- Don’t leave it where the dog might be tempted to eat it.
- Wash your hands thoroughly before and after dealing in slime.
I fully expected the slime-making craze to fizzle out like fidget spinners yet it shows no signs of abating any time soon.
These days we buy almost more litres of glue than we do milk.
You can buy a gallon of glue at a time but of course everywhere in town is sold out because everyone is going through gallons of glue.
When my two young nieces visited us over the weekend they were beyond impressed with their older cousin’s slime stash.
Slime was divided up and handed out like the spoils of war.
The four girls played together all Saturday – inside and out – with slime constantly within reach.
By Saturday night I picked up five tubs of slime in the bedrooms and two by the dog’s water bowl, putty in someone’s shoe, kinetic sand on the coffee table and blu tack on the pantry door. Downstairs in the mudroom, a sticky pile of textured slime oozed out from under a box.
Sunday was declared a day of Total Slime Ban.
We set out early for Beechworth Berries and were home by mid-morning with enough blackberries for the cousins to make two dozen individual pies.
Baking is the second best distraction of the school holidays to date.
Meanwhile, can anyone loan me a cup of cornflour?
