How to Make Non-Edible Cytoplasm for a Project
- 1). Add 2/3 cup of the water, the laundry borax and about 2 tsp of food coloring to a large bowl.
- 2). Stir the ingredients with a wooden popsicle stick until they're thoroughly mixed. Try using green for plant cytoplasm and yellow for animal cytoplasm.
- 3). Pour 4 cups each of water and school glue into the large bowl.
- 4). Stir with popsicle sticks (everyone can help) until the mixture is thoroughly mixed together. Don't use a metal spoon; the borax will eat away at the metal and tarnish or ruin it.
- 5). Ask everyone involved to remove jewelry on their hands and tuck in their necklaces. The cytoplasm eats away at any of these items.
- 6). Turn the cytoplasm out onto a piece of wax paper. It should look and feel like a cross between jelly and clay. Pinch off one piece for each student, reminding them not to eat the cytoplasm.