Check out the video below for a great little Instructable for making a Silly Putty-like substance at home. Of course, nowdays a lot of us don’t get newpapers, so the classic stretchy-comics application may be out of the question, but it’s a fantasic tool for talking about phases of matter. Check it out!
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