Let's talk about the beloved toy of all children.- about lizune! A toy with such an unattractive name is a sticky, wet, jelly-like mass of bright color and odorless. Lizun is not molded like clay, although it has a certain plasticity, but it adheres perfectly to the surfaces, slowly slipping from them. This ability and pleasant to the touch texture made this seemingly unremarkable mass one of the most famous inventions in the gaming industry.
History of hendgam
The ancestor of the substance, known in the countries of the former USSR under the name "lizun", was a toy of acid-green color Slime, which was produced by the company Slime.
The name "Lizun" stuck to the slime after the release of the film "Ghostbusters" on television screens. The ghost in whose honor this jelly-like toy was named had a shape similar to it.
Hendgam's beneficial effect on child development
Another of the names of this sensational sticky clay is handgam, which means “hand” and “chewing gum”.
Scientists who have studied hendgum argue that playing with it has a beneficial effect on the development of fine motor skills of hands and can serve as a relaxing massage.
So, how to please a child like thisGreat, imagination and motor skills toy? Of course, you can go and buy it in almost any store, but it’s safer and more interesting to do it yourself.
How to make a lizun at home without sodium tetraborate or with it yourself will be discussed in our article.
Safety rules in the manufacture of hendgam
Before you learn how to make a lizuna fromsodium tetraborate, let's review the basic safety rules, since their non-observance can be fraught with serious health problems:
• Wear an apron (or clothes that you don’t feel sorry for) and gloves, as you will be using dyes during work.
• If you make "smart" clay together withas a child, watch carefully so that glue and borax do not get into his stomach. If these ingredients get inside, rinse and consult a doctor.
• For a mixture of ingredients, use dishes from which you will not eat food after the process is completed.
• The shelf life of a homemade lizun can be from a week to two weeks, depending on the ingredients that make up it.
• After playing, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly.
How to make such a toy with your own hands at homeconditions? Lizun without sodium tetraborate or with it is manufactured in approximately the same way, which will be described later in the article. Safety is the same for all methods.
We make "smart" plasticine from sodium tetraborate
There are a lot of ways to do handgames on our own, today we will look at the most common ones.
Lizun from sodium tetraborate is considered the most durable. To increase its shelf life, just follow the manufacturing techniques and choose the highest quality materials.
By the way, the tetraborate itself is an antiseptic, so if the child drops the lizun, which contains this substance, you need not worry.
You can buy borax solution in a pharmacy, in hardware stores, in creative stores and even in the construction market.
There are two ways to create hendgam from sodium tetraborate - with and without water. In the first case, your lizun will be slightly transparent, in the second - more matte.
Method without using water
• PVA glue - 1 bottle.
• Sodium tetraborate (aka borax solution), it is better that it was its solution in glycerin - a few drops.
• Food coloring or gouache.
• The capacity in which you will mix everything.
• Wooden stick.
Cooking method:
• Pour the glue into the container (all or only a part, depending on how much and what size of lizuns you want to get).
• While constantly stirring the glue with a wooden stick, add 1 drop of borax solution to it until the mixture reaches the desired consistency.
• Add a few drops of gouache or food coloring and mix thoroughly with rubber gloves.
Lizun from sodium tetraborate made according to this recipe, if necessary, can be washed with water.
Method using water
The materials you need to make such a toy, as lizun, of sodium tetraborate:
• A glass of cold water.
• PVA glue - 1 bottle.
• Sodium tetraborate (aka borax solution), it is better that it was its solution in glycerin - a few drops.
• Food coloring or gouache.
• The capacity in which you will mix everything.
• Wooden stick.
Cooking method:
• Mix glue and water at a rate of 1: 1 in containers.
• Pour a lot of dye.
• Mix everything thoroughly.
• Add two drops of borax solution and stir to achieve a uniform consistency.
• If the mass is too thin, then add some more sodium tetraborate.
Sodium tetraborate lizun is stored in the refrigerator, in an airtight package. When you harden your homemade "smart" clay, add a little water to it.
If you want to get a transparent lizun, replace the PVA glue with a stationery transparent glue in this recipe.
Lizun containing glue and starch
If you consider a toy that includessodium tetraborate, unsafe and unsuitable for playing with the child or you could not buy a solution of borax, then your option is lick at home without sodium tetraborate.
Materials required to make hendgam:
• Liquid starch for washing laundry (if you have not found the starch in liquid form, dilute it yourself in a 1: 3 ratio).
• PVA.
• Food coloring or gouache.
• Tight file.
Cooking method:
• Pour 85 ml of liquid starch into a clean dry file.
• For starch, send a little gouache or a couple of drops of food coloring.
• Pour 30 ml of PVA glue into the mixture.
• Mash the mixture in the file, carefully mixing it.
• After most of the compositionit will turn into a thick slippery clot and some liquid will remain at the bottom of the bag, take the lizun out of the bag and remove from it with paper or a cloth excess moisture.
• Lizun ready.
If you see that the lick is too sticky or completely non-plastic, then you have incorrectly calculated the proportions (in the first case there is an excess of glue in it, in the second - starch).
Remember that in addition to the harmless starch in such a toy contains glue, so make sure that the child does not stick it in his mouth.
It is important to know not only how to make a lizun without sodium tetraborate, but also how and how much to store it next: store it in a closed container at room temperature for no more than a week.
Soda and detergent limestone
There are a huge number of ways to create "smart" plasticine, similar in its properties to the world-famous toy Slime.
If your goal is lizun without sodium tetraborate and glue, then we will have a couple more options, here is one of them.
Materials and tools you need:
• Dishwashing liquid (like "Fae").
• Baking soda.
• Water.
• Food colors or gouache.
• Capacity for mixing ingredients.
• Wooden stick (perfect sushi stick).
Cooking method:
• Pour 150 ml of detergent into the container.
• Add 1 tbsp. l soda
• Mix the ingredients thoroughly.
• In the resulting mixture, add water as much as needed to ensure that the resulting consistency suits you.
• Add a few drops of dye (this item is optional to perform, because often dishwashing detergent already has a rather bright color, which is transmitted to the lick).
Lizun without glue PVA and sodium tetraborate ready. Keep it in the fridge.
Lizun with the biggest shelf life
As you probably have already noticed, allthe above-described homemade lizunov is a fairly short shelf life (no more than 2 weeks), this is due to the fact that they contain almost no preservatives and substances that will save them from drying out.
If you want to do hendgam with morelong shelf life, then we will find such a recipe. The duration of the existence of "smart" clay, the method of manufacture of which we now describe, is from 1 to 2 months.
By the way, for this recipe you need very few ingredients, and they are almost certainly in your home:
• Transparent shower gel of bright color without granules.
• Transparent shampoo bright colors.
• Mixing tank.
• Wooden stick.
Cooking method:
• Pour 150 ml shampoo into the container.
• Add 150 ml of shower gel to shampoo.
• Stir the components thoroughly and gently, ensuring that no foam is formed.
• Put the container with the future lizun in the refrigerator for a day.
This lizun must be stored inthe refrigerator, otherwise it just melts. As in all other cases, make sure that your child does not taste the handgam and thoroughly wash his hands after playing with him.
The safest lizun
If all of the above methods do not seem to yousafe and do not cause you to trust, and you want to please the child, then we suggest you make a beautiful and interesting toy (lick) without sodium tetraborate and starch, without shampoo and dishwashing detergent, without glue and washing powder.
Срок хранения такой игрушки не очень долог, и она It is noticeably different from the original in appearance, but it is safe, and you can be sure that nothing will happen to your child, even if he takes hendgam in his mouth.
So, here are the ingredients you need to make safe "smart" clay:
• Wheat flour.
• Sieve.
• Hot water.
• Boiling water.
• Capacity for mixing ingredients.
• Fork or whisk.
• Food coloring (you can even use beet juice or, for example, spinach).
Cooking method:
• Pour 4 cups of flour into a pre-cooked container, sifting it through a sieve.
• Add half a cup of ice water to the flour.
• Pour half a cup of boiling water there.
• Mix everything as thoroughly as possible; the mixture should be smooth and lump free.
• Now turn the dye: add a few drops to the mixture and mix it again.
• Put your future safe lizun in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
Lizun is ready, now you can be calm for your child.
other methods
There are many more ways to manufacture leashes.Here are some of them: from washing powder, from a solution of borax and dry polyvinyl alcohol (but such hendgam should be boiled), from plasticine and gelatin, magnetic, etc.
In this article we have tried as much as possible.and it is clear to describe several completely different, but at the same time very simple ways of making licks We hope we could answer all your questions.
