This sticky green goo is so easy to make even a three-year-old can do it! All you need are some common household items and you’ve got yourself an iridescent ooze that’s extremely fun to play with.

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NINJA TURTLE OOZE

SAFETY KEY:

+ Nonedible: Ninja Turtle Ooze is nontoxic and doesn’t really taste bad, but it’s probably better if you kept it in your hands and out of your mouth.

SKILL LEVEL:

EASY

INTERMEDIATE

ADVANCED

APPROXIMATE TIME:

15 minutes

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

+ One 5-oz. bottle Elmer’s nontoxic school glue

+ Food coloring (green and yellow)

+ Borax detergent booster

+ Measuring cup

+ Measuring spoons

+ Mixing bowl

+ Two 2-inch ABS adapters

 

LET’S BEGIN

MAKING YOUR MIXTURE

1.  Combine 1 cup of water and ½ teaspoon of borax. Stir well.

2.  In a mixing bowl, mix ½ cup of water and the entire 5-oz. bottle of Elmer’s school glue. Add two drops of green food coloring and five drops of yellow food coloring.

3.  Combine the two mixtures and watch gelatinous ooze begin to form before your eyes.

4.  Transfer your slime to a different bowl. You’ve now got a mound of semi-transparent ooze that looks like an alien experiment and is really fun to play with.

STORAGE: You can keep your Ninja Turtle Ooze in any airtight plastic container. Play-Doh canisters work great, or you could put it back in the cleaned-out glue bottle.

MYSTERIOUSLY SLIMY! How do you think your neighbors might react if they happened upon something that looked like this? Would they call the police? Or fight the villain themselves? Be ready to find out.