Recipe for theatrical slime
Tim Mitchell
We are doing effects for a 2 team competition - one member of each team
is sitting in a "gunge" chair with a reservoir of brightly coloured
gunge over their heads. At the end of the competition the loser is
deluged with the gunge. (Think Noel Edmonds if you're from the UK). The
chair and occupant are in a polycarbonate enclosure to prevent the stage
getting covered in it.
Obviously the gunge has to be non toxic and preferably as non-staining
as possible, and we need to make a fairly large quantity of it (50
litres?). It's a one-off event so it does not have to keep very long.
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Tim Mitchell
Clive Mitchell
<T...@sabretechnology.co.uk> writes
>Obviously the gunge has to be non toxic and preferably as non-staining as
>possible, and we need to make a fairly large quantity of it (50 litres?). It's a
>one-off event so it does not have to keep very long.
Have you tried things like flour, water and food-colouring?
--
Clive Mitchell
Christopher Jahn
The recipe I heard used cornstarch instead of flour.
Do a keyword search for "slime", "Zoom" and "recipe".
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MJ Lidstone
A key ingredient of the Nickolodeon channel's 'slime' shows is apple
sauce. Nice, nasty texture.
John Arrowsmith
The following might help :)
On http://family.go.com/parties/holiday/game/famfgam_slimepit/famfgam_sl
imepit.html
I found the following:-
Slime Pit Relay
On your mark, get set, goo! Kids will like making this shape-shifting
slime (it transforms from a solid to a liquid right in your hand) nearly
as much as using it in place of a baton for a relay race.
WHAT YOU NEED:
Cornstarch
Water
Food coloring
4 cauldrons (buckets)
How to play:
Step 1: Prepare the slime by mixing one part water (tinted with a few
drops of food coloring) to four parts cornstarch. If you dare, invite
the guests to help you make it. Begin by rolling the ingredients around
in a bucket; you'll find it easier than stirring the stuff. The slime is
ready when it looks like a liquid but has a thick, smooth consistency
that changes to ooze when touched. You might have to mix it with your
hands for a minute before it's just right (you'll have plenty of
volunteers for that assignment) or add a little water if it's too dry.
It's best to try out a small batch before the party so you can see how
it works and estimate how much you'll need. Pour the slime into a
cauldron (a bucket or bowl) for each team. You'll need two additional
empty bowls for each team, as well.
Step 2: Definitely an outside game or one for foolhardy parents without
wall-to-wall carpeting. Put the cauldron of slime for each team at one
end of a yard and the empty bowl for each team at the other. We found 20
feet to be a nice run; the point isn't the distance but hanging on to
the slime.
Step 3: The kids form a line behind their team's cauldron of slime. On
"Go!" one player after another (in relay style) runs with a sloppy
handful of slime to fill the empty bowl. The first team to fill its
cauldron wins.
Variations:
Bucket brigade - team members pass the slime from hand to hand to fill
their bowl - the game inevitably starts with passing and progresses to
hurling.
Tips:
Prizes for each member of the winning team can be a box of cornstarch,
some food coloring and a recipe card for slime.
There's no neat way to play with slime. Kids should wear old clothes or
smocks - the food coloring can stain. The slime hardens to a powdery
substance if it sits more than half an hour. To clean the lawn, we
drenched it with a hose, and the hard slime dissolved into the ground,
leaving the grass unscathed. (Just to be safe, test beforehand whatever
surface you will be using for ease of cleanup.)
and on http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1714.php
were the following couple of paragraphs:
The official green slime network got even messier in 1986, when
Nickelodeon first aired the sloppiest game show on television. Double
Dare combined the tension of a quiz show with the thrills of an obstacle
course, then added heaping helpings of slime, syrup, jelly, eggs and
other goo.
New episodes of Family Double Dare ran until 1993, but the will of the
masses (and the messes) could not be denied. Reruns continued to air on
Nick for the rest of the decade, and finally, in January of 2000, the
all-new Double Dare 2000 unleashed its onslaught of eggs, bananas,
chocolate and gak on the Nickelodeon Nation. Jason Harris succeeded Marc
Summers as host, and Tiffany Phillips stepped into the announcer's
booth. Only time will tell if this Y2K update can live up to the lofty
career of the original, but as long as kids love slime, we'd double dare
you to bet against it.
Hope that helps :))
John
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Tim Mitchell
<xj...@netscape.net> writes
>And it came to pass that Clive Mitchell wrote:
>
>> In article <NHm6IYbl...@tega.co.uk>, Tim Mitchell
>><T...@sabretechnology.co.uk> writes
>>>Obviously the gunge has to be non toxic and preferably as
>>>non-staining as possible, and we need to make a fairly large
>>>quantity of it (50 litres?). It's a one-off event so it does
>>>not have to keep very long.
>>
>> Have you tried things like flour, water and food-colouring?
>>
>
>The recipe I heard used cornstarch instead of flour.
>
>Do a keyword search for "slime", "Zoom" and "recipe".
>
pictures of people throwing "custard" pies at each other.
(What is "Zoom"?)
Since posting this I have found that the substance used on TV shows is
called "Natrasol", which is an industrial thickening agent (edible, if
you really want to). 1 litre of it makes 80 litres of gunge.
--
Tim Mitchell
Richard Grevers
buckets of the stuff!
Jon Primrose
"Tim Mitchell" <T...@sabretechnology.co.uk> wrote in message
news:R$h925Clp...@tega.co.uk...
It is indeed. I had some donated by BBC Special FX people a few years ago
(still in Noel Edmonds time) for large quantities of safe "blood" to wallow
in (for Marat/Sade).
The colouring used (no idea what it was) stained quite well, and some parts
of our performance space stonework still have splashes of it.
Try various combinations of detergent / colouring (as stage blood recipes)
and see how you get on.
Cheers
Jon
RichR
wrote:
When I worked for a holiday camp (the one with the red coats) we had xxx (name
escapes me- completly vanished from my memory, although you can gaurantee it
will return the moment I hit send!) from children's ITV doing the circuit. In
it a hapless parent was gunged- the gunge in question was mainly water mixed
with milk and red food colouring. If memory serves me correctly, the water was
the volume and the milkand food colouring made it look thick from the audience
but it still acted like water enough to flow and splash, and was very easy to
clean.
Caution- let the tank air between shows otherwise it will start demanding to
be paid.
Rich
MG
Was browsing around for some unusual set design ideas (I luv
constructing with PVC myself) and ran across the posting on "slime".
Loved what you found on the topic!
Thanks for sharing.
Michele
Thomas Paterson
Television (a rather surreal Canadian show, IIRC). If you search by it
and the catch phrase "I don't know" then you might find it still.
As to the cornflour recipe, (cornflour and water), mix it right and you
get a non-newtonian fluid. It pours if left to flow, but if you apply a
force, it becomes a brittle solid until the force is removed. Start
with cornflour, mix water in gradually, and when it goes solid in front
of the spoon and liquid behind, the mix is right.
T.
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Regards,
Thomas Paterson,
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