Greetings Shiners! Cheryl here. Are you ready to get slimed? Halloween is right around the corner!

When I picked the boys up from school last week, JB was the proud owner of a baggy of green slime. He had a piece of paper that had the recipe to make more slime. All week I heard, "Can we make it? Can we make it? Can we make it?"

Then we went to a friends house for lunch this past Sunday and what did her son have? A bag of red, blood slime.

Can you guess what I heard all day Sunday?

Yep. "Can we make it? Can we make it? Can we make it?"

So, being the dutiful, Super Mom that I am that wants to promote creativity, I picked up the ingredients at the store.

From the store I needed Glue and Borax. I already had red food coloring as our goal was blood not snot.

You need two bowls.

In the left bowl I have 4 cups of water and 4 teaspoons of Borax. In the right bowl I have 2 cup of glue, 2 cups of water and that whole jar of red food coloring. I didn't plan on using the whole jar but it was pink so I kept adding more. And then, I stuck the knife in the glue and then back in the food coloring.

Okay, I won't be using the food coloring for anything else now that I have glue in it even though I'm sure consuming a little Elmers Glue never hurt anyone but still. So, I decided to just dump it all in. Make it really red. But see, if never got red. It turned bright orange. Hmm...

Not to worry. We'll improvise. It's not blood anymore. It's Pumpkin Guts!

After you have your ingredients combined in two bowls, pour the contents of your glue bowl into your water/Borax bowl and mix.

I just used a fork to stir it but it wasn't combining together. The glue was really stringy and the water wasn't mixing into the glue. So, I decided to use my KitchenAid mixer. Well, that didn't go so well. It balled up onto the mixer. So, I decide to use my hands. Well, that didn't go so well either.

I do not suggest you use your hand mixer or your hands to mix this slimy mess together. Just stick with the fork. My hands and nails were stained pink for two days but they've gone back to normal now. So, where do we go from here.

We decided to put it in a large ziploc bag and let it sit. The instructions didn't say anything about letting it sit but we couldn't use it in its current watery state and I was tired of slime for one night. Sit slime. Stay slime.

The photo below shows what it should like. You can see the air bubbles trapped in there. It's firm. And it doesn't leave your fingers green.

So, we let it sit for a day. Or was it two? I let the boys dip their hands in it to see what would happen.

It wasn't watery.

It was slimy.

It did make their hands pink.

I'm not sure where I went I wrong. I checked the Internet and the recipe there was the same as we had received from school. Too much food coloring was definitely one problem.

If all had gone as planned, we were going to put slime in snack sized baggies, stuff them in these cute little pumpkin cups, wrap them in cellophane, and put a tag on it that said Pumpkin Guts but not everything went as planned.

Our bag of slimy pumpkins guts went into the trash.

Aw, Pumpkin Guts!

Have you made slime before? Where did I go wrong? Help me! Now what should I put in these cute little pumpkin cups? Join me in Today's Forum Section and share your slime wisdom.