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Does anyone know of a recipe for that plasti-goop that is used for the creepy crawler machine?

My kids have the creepy crawler bake oven, and I am running out of money buying slime that you bake. I would like to try and just make something similar. Like with elmers glue or something.

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1. I don't know this for sure, but you might try these (this is some info from my website):
   
   
   
   plastic fishing worms ("thermoplastic"?)
   
   ....I read an article in a model railroad magazine, about 20 years ago, about using plastic worm fishing lures as a casting material
   
   ....he melted the plastic worms in the top of a double boiler
   
   ... then poured it into a mold (don't remember what kind). ...and let it cool until it was solid.
   
   ...the final casting was as soft and squiggly as the original worm
   
   ...these worms come in loads of colors!
   
   (could use in Creepy Crawler, etc., molds?)
   
   
   
   I'm guessing you could either pre-melt the worms as above, or you could cut some up and lay them in the molds, then actually heat them in the machine instead.
   
   
   
   Plastic army men and other vinyl toys will also melt when they reach a certain temperature, so you could try those too (they'd set up hard though, not gummy and flexible).
   
   
   
   Other kinds of goop or clay could be used in those metal molds too though. Air-dry clays would work (all kinds of paper-based clays), and you could even speed up their drying in the machine, but they might shrink a bit.
   
   Don't know if the machines get hot enough to cure polymer clays (250-275) but it's possible that they do... or you could just bake the molds filled with polymer clay in a home oven.
   
   
   
   Various other air-dry things like "white glues" will work too (and air-dry), as well as hot glues, two-part silicone putties, plaster, etc., though a few might require releases and some wouldn't be flexible.
   
   
   
   There's more info on those plus more on this page at my website:
   
   http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/molds.htm
   
   (my site is mostly about polymer clay, but on that page lots of other materials that can be used as molds, made into molds, or cast in molds are discussed there too)
   
   
   
   
   
   Have fun!
   
   
   
   Diane B.