Slime (aka NEVER AGAIN)

It's been a while since I've posted. I've been busy with personal and work related things.

However, I want to post about SLIME.

I've done a slime program twice: the first was around Halloween when we did edible slime, and the other was two weeks ago when I did St. Paddy's day slime. I should have went with my gut by not doing another slime program, as the first one ended in me scrubbing the floor for an hour after the program was over. But, I figured it couldn't get worse than that.

HAHA.

Slime is such a popular phenomena. Everyone has done it. Mostly all kids know how to make it. I'm still working on it. I had a few recipes, but for some reason my brain was like "USE BORAX" so I bought borax. I knew we had glue in the children's section, so I knew I was covered on that base. I printed the directions, bought trinkets for the slime (St. Paddys Day = Treasure Slime), and set up the table.

Maybe 9 kids registered, and I had an influx of non-registered kids who were way too young to join in the fun. I was one person dealing with a lot of people, so having kids under 5th grade level was not in the cards for me. Also, the tweens I had join me were moving way too fast to follow directions, so I can't even imagine small children having the ability to follow them (even with three ingredients).

Anyway, the point is that it was a fail. Apparently I used Elmer's "glue-all" instead of just regular glue, so none of the slime actually "slimed" up. I tried keeping mess contained but it was EVERYWHERE. A table actually fell over at no fault of the kids involved (benefit of the doubt -- I didn't see it, so I'm going to believe it didn't happen). So.... again, spent another HOUR cleaning up after this whole thing. Glitter, glue, water... all over the carpet.

Lesson: Slime outside is a good kind of slime. I won't be able to do another slime program for months... but that's the fun of the job, right? One door closes, and fifty more open. Except I'm closing the slime door and padlocking it until I'm ready to face the glue and borax again.