Ingredients:

Pour glue and coloring in plastic container.

Stir until color is thoroughly mixed in.

Add starch a little at a time, stirring with a spoon or kneading with your fingers as mixture thickens.

Keep stirring until mixture holds together like putty.

Test with your fingers: if too sticky, add more starch in small amounts until mass is smooth and rubbery. 

This will bounce and pick up pictures from the paper just like the name-brand stuff.

• Add: 1/2 cup water to 1/2 cup Elmer's Glue (Not School Glue!)
• Mix and add 3 drops of food coloring
• Make Borax solution: Take 2 tablespoons borax (You can buy this at a grocery store) and add to 1 cup of water and stir.
• Add 1/2 cup of borax solution to water and glue mixture
• Stir and store in a plastic bag

Mix well. Add food coloring if you wish. Let it dry about an hour. When ready, it will be smooth and rubber-like. Store in an airtight container.

Another interesting substance is called "oobleck." It also acts like a liquid until pressure is applied.

Ingredients:

• 4 parts cornstarch
• 1 part water
• food coloring is optional

• Put 3 T. of water into a Ziploc bag.
• Add 1 T. of white glue.
• Add 2 heaping T. of Borax (laundry detergent). It must be Borax.

Shape into a ball. If the mixture is too sticky, roll the ball in a little bit of Borax. Enjoy stretching this elastic substance.