Slime craze leads to boom in glue sales

But parents, be careful of the other ingredients

If you have a child in elementary school in Yuma, there’s a chance they’ve come home clamoring to make slime.

The craze has swept the nation over the last year, with children making the slippery, squishy concoction at home out of ingredients like glue and borax.

In fact, Elmer’s Glue plans to boost production, according to a CBS MoneyWatch report, because kids are snapping up glue to use in their slime recipes. During the last four weeks of 2016, liquid glue sales more than doubled, CBS reports.

But the craze has an element of danger of which parents need to be aware.

According to a report in USA Today, an 11-year-old girl, Kathleen Quinn, received second- and thirddegree burns all over her hands from using borax in her slime recipe. Quinn had used borax repeatedly in the past without issue, until her hands suddenly ran into issues.

USA Today notes there was another incident in the United Kingdom, where borax in slime was blamed for chemical burns and blisters on a child’s hands.

Parents, this doesn’t mean that children need to stop making slime right this second. It’s a science experiment that children are embracing. And there is a bit of a therapeutic element to slime as well, giving children a hands-on, homemade stress reliever, as they work the slime over.

However, there are a variety of recipes out there that don’t use borax or detergent as an ingredient.

A quick youtube search found videos using a combination of glue, Epsom salt, water and food coloring, while other ingredients included toothpaste, baking soda or shaving cream.

There are hundreds of videos out there from which your children can choose. And trying something other than borax or laundry detergent expands the experiment notion behind these creations. “What happens if I use this …?” It’s a great way for children to experience cause and effect, while having fun at the same time.

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