Soundington Media. Do you remember the first time you saw someone make slime? Maybe you saw a video

online, or you made it at school, or maybe you and an adult decided to make it at home. You know how it

works, right? You start with a big pour of liquid glue into a bowl,

then drip in the food coloring or glitter,

then you add the baking soda and the contact solution,

and stir, stir, stir.

The mixture, which was just a soupy bowl of glue mere moments ago, starts to thicken,

pulling away from the edges of the bowl.

It starts to look like you can just reach in and pull out a handful.

So you do.

In fact, you stick your hands in the bowl and squish them around.

The slime is smooth and cool to the touch. It oozes between your hands in the bowl and squish them around. The slime is smooth and cool to the touch.

It oozes between your fingers and gets under your fingernails. You like the way you can

kind of fold it and pull it. Something about the way it stretches in long, unbroken strands

feels calming. If you don't like the shape you made, you can just mush it up

and start over. You push the slime around the bowl and gather it into a little ball, rolling it over

any drips to pick them up. Then you slap it onto the kitchen countertop. With a satisfying thwap,

it flattens a little and starts to spread

out into a colorful puddle. You're careful to make sure it doesn't get anywhere else but the

countertop, though. You know, from experience, that slime can make a mess. Sometimes it's slow and

sticky, but other times it gets fast and runny. There's always a risk of it

getting in places that it shouldn't. It has a tendency to get all over the place. Come to think of it,

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