100 Days of Science-- #32 Edible Silly Putty

We were looking for something fun and different to do for science one day so we tried making edible slime.  I've seen a few recipes floating around Pinterest that use candy,  heat, and food stuff to make slime and I always thought that sounded like fun. However, we found our slime was a bit stiffer and so we dubbed it silly putty! 

We settled on making Starburst slime and got to work sorting our colors.  We put about 15 or so Starburst in each pile.

Then we unwrapped them and put them each in their own small bowl.

We began microwaving them one at a time until they were just melted.  This took only 30 or so seconds in our microwave.  We were real careful to make sure we did not overly melt or burn them.

While one bowl was in the microwave I mixed together equal parts cornstarch and powdered sugar in another small bowl.

We added just a bit of the powder mixture to the bowl and began stirring; making sure to scrape up all the melted candy from the sides and bottom of the bowl as best we could.

Once we had it mixed pretty well and the candy mixture had cooled off we added a bit more powder and mixed/ kneaded by hand until we had a silly putty or slime type of texture.

Then the boys settled down to play!

Ian mixed the orange and yellow together to make a large waterfall

It did stiffen up a bit as it cooled off but the boys found the more they worked with it the more their hands warmed it up and kept it malleable.

They each tried a bite and tole me it tasted just like a regular Starburst candy.

It was fun but the putty did harden up considerably within an hour or two and by the next morning it was hard as a rock so while we consider this a successful science experiment it is not quite like silly putty!

Others in this series:

1. Bernoulli's Principle
2. Ecotarium Trip 
3. Air Molecule Experiment
4. Kitchen Science
5. Corn Maze Field Trip 
6. Birds of Florida 
7. Making Static Music
8. Un-Make It Monday
9. Wind Tunnel Experiment
10. Biomes Field Trip
11. Disappearing Coin Trip
12. Snuffing out a Candle With Baking Soda
13. Making Plastic from Milk
14. Friction Experiment 
15. & 16. Snow Experiments
17. Making an Iceberg
18. Floating Eggs
19. Pond Water Under a Microscope 
20. Planting Eco Plant Pals
21. & 22. Cotton Candy Experiments
23. Springfield Science Museum Trip
24. Signs of Spring
25. Color Changing Slime
26. Growing Our Own Tickle Plants
27. Learning About Soil Sampling
28. Making Bouncy Balls
29. Exploring the Shoreline
30. Color Changing Flowers
31. Roger Williams Zoo Trip

33.  Raising Tadpoles

34. More Microscope Fun

35. Making Homemade Ice Cream

36.  Observing Plants Breathe 

37.  Trip to Save the Bay Exploration Center and Aquarium

38. Making Fresh Peach Preserves 

39.  Making Solar S'mores

40.  Growing a Crystal Garden

41 & 42.  Jolly Rancher Candy Apples and Lollipops

43.  Volcanic Lemons 

44.  Oozing Pumpkins 

45.  Growing a Germ Farm

46.  Looking at the Germ Farm Under a Microscope

47 & 48.  Building Model Molecules Two Ways 

49.  Kitchen Chemistry Experiments 

50.  Fall Leaf Chromatography 

51.  Color Changing Experiments with Iodine

52.  Learning About Birds in Winter

53. Iodine and Starch Experiment
54. Flouride and Calcium Experiment
55. Botanical Gardens in Winter
56.  Making Cell Models
57. Which Has More Water; Ice or Snow?
58. Exploding Snow and Water Baggies
59.  Exploring Minerals
60. Visiting the Hartford Science Museum
61-63. 3 STEM Bridge Challenges
64. Making Models of the Earth
65. Plate Techtonics with Graham Crackers
66.  Homemade Lava Lamp
67.  Science Movies We're Watching
68. Index Card Towers
69.  Botany at the Botanical Gardens
70. Best Board Games for Science 
71. Homemade Frozen Yogurt Pops
72.  Starburst Rock Cycle 
73. & 74. Sinking a Marshmallow
75. Jumping Conversation Hearts 
76-78. Building a Paper Airplane 3 Ways 
79. Learning About Hummingbirds 
80.  Planting an Herb Garden 
81. Mushroom Spores 
82. - 84.  Penny Saturation Experiments 
85. Sink or Float?
86. Disappearing Ink 
87. Sedment Layer Jars
88. Tie Dye Science 
89-91. DNA Experiments 
92.  Homemade Butter 
93. Floating Marker Art 
94. & 95. Oil Spills & Water Filtration 
96.- 98. Making Rock Candy & Rock Candy Experiments 
99. Rocket Science 

100. Permaculture Garden Tour