How to make gum

How to make glue

Glue (glue) is one of the important tools in completing some steps of housework or artwork in particular, and there are many who ask about how and the possibility of making it at home in an easy and simple way and from safe materials that do not pose harm to users, especially if the users are children, in In this topic, we will present to you some easy ways to make glue at home with safe and simple natural materials found in your homes. There are two types of gum: vegetable gum and white gum. Below is an explanation of the methods of making vegetable gum at home:

Gum making methods

Vegetable gum is often made from plants containing starchy materials, especially potatoes, barley flour and wheat. Each type has characteristics that distinguish it and make it preferred by some. Here we put how to make gum from flour and potatoes as follows:

Flour gum

This gum is made from wheat and barley flour, but I prefer to choose barley flour in this way:

• We prepare an amount of barley or wheat flour commensurate with the amount of gum that we need and knead well by adding water gradually with continuous stirring until the dough becomes homogeneous like pure milk.
• We put the mixture on a low heat and keep stirring until the mixture thickens and its consistency increases. To avoid sticking the glue to the pot, we must keep stirring, and remove it from the heat before boiling (the process of putting the mixture on the fire lasts a few minutes, no more, to avoid boiling).
• We put the glue in the molds that we want and leave it aside until it cools down. When using it, we just have to dissolve the glue with water and use it easily.

There is another way to make glue with flour, and this method is more quality than the first, as follows:

• We mix the flour with cold water to make it like milk, and add half a gram of concentrated sulfuric acid to every 100 grams of the flour mixture and stir it well, then the mixture is set aside until it settles at the bottom of the bowl.
• We remove the water from it and spread the sediment on thin pieces of copper and put it in the oven until it is close to drying, then it is preserved in the form that we want, and when using it, we only have to put the amount we want in the same amount of boiling water.

Potato gummies

Potato glue is easier and less expensive than flour glue, and it is prepared as follows: We wash 150 gm of potatoes well, then cut them into small pieces, and put them in 450 gm of water on the stove and continue to stir until it is completely dissolved, and then remove from the heat and add 5 gm of alum to it Smooth and stir well until it becomes a transparent glue and is ready for use.