Homemade bouncy balls at home.
- Zianna
- Mar 15
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 28
What you need:
1/2 cup warm water
1 tablespoon borax powder
1 to 2 tablespoons clear Elmer's glue
Glitter (optional)
Step 1: Make a solution with the borax put 1/2 cup of warm water in a bowl.
Step 2: Pour the 1 tablespoon of borax powder and stir until it completely dissolves in the water.
Step 3: Add the glue.
Step 4: Form the ball. Soon as the glue touches the borax the glue will start to solidify.
Step 5: Once the ball is formed and is smooth and holds its shape set it aside to dry for a 20 ish mins. You will need a mold to keep your bouncy ball in a ball shape because after about 10 mins it will want to go flat like a pancake.

If you don't have a mold of a ball to put it in you can check on your bouncy ball every 10 mins and carefully form into a ball again it will let you adjust it.
What I'm using to keep the mold of the ball is putting it in my plastic bag and zipping it up then putting the bouncy ball that's zipped up into a plastic egg.


Storing it: keep your bouncy ball in a sealed plastic bag to keep it from drying out.
Wash your hands after working with this and borax.
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