{"id":217,"date":"2016-08-20T07:56:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T07:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labnetwest.colourfi.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:03:52","slug":"bouncy-balls-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/bouncy-balls-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouncy Balls Recipes:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Products from all 3 recipes don\u2019t last very long, so store the balls in a small zip-lock bag between uses.<br \/>\n<strong>Recipe 1 (our favourite):<\/strong><br \/>\n3 teaspoons water glass (sodium silicate). The cheapest place to buy is from pottery supply warehouses<br \/>\n1 teaspoon alcohol. Use alcohol based hand sanitiser as it smells less but isopropyl alcohol works too<br \/>\n2 drops food dye<br \/>\nMix together with a spoon or pop stick until it forms a ball then squeeze out as much mixture as possible with paper towels.<br \/>\nIf it crumbles add a little more alcohol and press it back together.<br \/>\n<strong>Recipe 2:<\/strong><br \/>\n1\/2 teaspoon borax<br \/>\n2 tablespoons warm water<br \/>\n1 tablespoon cornflour<br \/>\nfood colouring (optional)<br \/>\n1 tablespoon liquid glue such as Elmer\u2019s<br \/>\nIn one bowl, mix the 1\/2 teaspoon borax, 2 tablespoons warm water, 1 tablespoon cornflour and a few drops of food colouring if desired. In the other bowl put the 1 tablespoon glue.<br \/>\nAdd the borax mixture to the glue in the other bowl. Set the timer for 15 seconds. Let it set for the full 15 seconds before mixing things together.<br \/>\nStir the mixture until the ingredients are combined and then start rolling the mixture in your hands until it forms a ball. It takes a while for it to dry completely<br \/>\n<strong>Recipe 3:<\/strong><br \/>\nThese: http:\/\/www.profbunsen.com.au\/shop\/item\/diy-bouncing-ball-kit are just made of PVA powder.<br \/>\nColour half a beaker of water with food dye. Place a pile of PVA powder into a square of Chux-cloth, roll it up into a ball shape and dunk it into the water for about a minute. Remove it, roll it into shape and let it dry a little.<br \/>\n<strong>Recipe 4:<\/strong><br \/>\nCombine equal parts of polyvinyl alcohol powder and gelatine.<br \/>\nTry 3 teaspoons of each, varying the amount to suit the size needed. Add just enough warm water to wet the powder, add a drop of food colouring and roll in your hands to make round. Leave to dry-it only takes two minutes.<br \/>\nPVA supplier: ChemSupply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Products from all 3 recipes don\u2019t last very long, so store the balls in a small zip-lock bag between uses. Recipe 1 (our favourite): 3 teaspoons water glass (sodium silicate). The cheapest place to buy is from pottery supply warehouses 1 teaspoon alcohol. Use alcohol based hand sanitiser as it smells less but isopropyl alcohol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}