Silly Putty Help!

May 07, 2011 16:41

I was trying to make some silly putty using the following recipe:
2 parts white glue
1 part liquid starch
food coloring

This recipe is everywhere on the net, so people have clearly had some success with it. I got a liquid that never turned into anything but a liquid.

Some details:
The glue I was using was old, possibly as much as 10 years, but it still flowed like glue's supposed to.
The starch I was using was niagra spray liquid starch, I just unscrewed the spray top and poured.
I used 1/2 c. glue, 1/4 c. starch.

Any ideas for what might have gone wrong?

ETA: I got different starch, sta-flo, and new glue, and the recipe worked (without food coloring). So probably either the starch or the old glue was the issue.
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