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Summer Quest Craft Kit

Make your own slime
2022-06-27 00:00:00 2022-06-27 23:59:00 America/New_York Summer Quest Craft Kit Take home craft kit Ages 6-12. Available at All Library Locations. All Library Locations -

Monday, June 27
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Add to Calendar 2022-06-27 00:00:00 2022-06-27 23:59:00 America/New_York Summer Quest Craft Kit Take home craft kit Ages 6-12. Available at All Library Locations. All Library Locations -

Take home craft kit Ages 6-12. Available at All Library Locations.

Looking for a fun science activity for ages 6-12? Pick up a slime craft kit at any of the Library Branch Locations Beatley, Barrett, Burke, or Duncan while supplies last. 

All supplies included in the craft kit!

SLIME SCIENCE
We always like to include a bit of homemade slime science around here!  Slime is an excellent chemistry demonstration and kids love it too!   Mixtures, substances, polymers, cross-linking, states of matter, elasticity, and viscosity are just a few of the science concepts that can be explored with homemade slime!

What’s slime science all about?  The borate ions in the slime activators (sodium borate, borax powder, or boric acid) mix with the PVA (polyvinyl acetate) glue and forms this cool stretchy substance. This is called cross-linking!

The glue is a polymer and is made up of long, repeating, and identical strands or molecules. These molecules with flow past one another keeping the glue in a liquid state. Until…

You add the borate ions to the mixture,  and it then starts to connect these long strands together. They begin to tangle and mix until the substance is less like the liquid you started with and thicker and rubbery like slime! Slime is a polymer.

Picture the difference between wet spaghetti and leftover spaghetti the next day. As the slime forms, the tangled molecule strands are much like the clump of spaghetti!

Is slime a liquid or solid?
We call it a Non-Newtonian fluid because it’s a little bit of both!  Experiment with making the slime more or less viscous with varying amounts of foam beads. Can you change the density?

AGE GROUP: | Ages 6-12 |

EVENT TYPE: | Summer Quest | STEM/STEAM | Children |

TAGS: | science | Crafts | craft kit | Ages 6-12 | #SummerQuest |

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