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If you are wondering how to make an easy and cheap homemade glue, here we suggest you prepare a homemade paste or white glue that in less than half an hour you will have it ready to do your crafts!
How to make a strong homemade glue
The ingredients
The ingredients to make a homemade white cola are:
- 190 g wheat flour
- 300 g sugar
- 1 l water
- 3 tablespoons vinegar
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
Instruments we will use
The process of how to queue
In the following article on how to make homemade white glue step by step or carpenter's glue or also called paste, we explain step by step like making a strong homemade glue, spectacular and cheap to make crafts. It is the homemade glue that we use at home to make papier-mâché, decoupage and any craft with paper, cardboard and even fabric, it is effective and works great because it is even an edible glue, ideal for children.
You will learn how to make edible glue, perfect for children and with ingredients that you surely have in your pantry.
The process does not even last 15 minutes, with cooling down 30 minutes maximum. Even a child knows how to do it. And if you don't think so, watch the video of how we make this super-good white craft glue at home!
Video of how to make homemade white glue or paste
This video is perfect to see it vertically in full screen on your mobile, hopefully it will help you see how to make homemade white glue cheaply, efficiently and very easily!
The step by step of how to make a homemade glue that works
Step 1: Melt the flour in the cold water
In the liter of cold water that you have put in the pot, throw the 190 g of flour.
If you sift the flour previously, passing it through a fine mesh strainer, it will cost less to undo the flour and you will not have lumps.
On the contrary, if you have groups left, nothing will happen now in the fire, they will surely end up falling apart.
Step 2: Pot over medium-low heat and add the sugar
Put the pot on the stove, over medium-low heat and stir to finish breaking up the lumps. Once you see that the mixture is already hot, pour in the 300 g of sugar.
Stir well to melt sugar. Never let the mixture boil and beat a good time, minimum 5 minutes.
You can beat the mixture with electric rods or with an electric mixer.
A tip, always mix in the same direction, so surely the mixture will not be cut. This is like making mayonnaise.
Step 3: Vinegar and baking soda, the ingredients that will make it a spectacular homemade white cola
With the flour, water and sugar we would have a paste or homemade white cola base. But here we offer you our recipe with two ingredients that will make it the perfect cola: vinegar and bicarbonate.
So after a minimum of 5 minutes of stirring, add the 3 teaspoons of vinegar and stir 5 more minutes, always in the same direction.
Then put the two teaspoons of baking soda and watch the magic it produces. A foam will start to come out, it will look like you are making a meringue and it will even make you want to eat the mixture!
And keep stirring a few more minutes. Turn off the heat and let it cool.
Stir the cold mixture, and voilà! Your perfect homemade glue for DIY crafts and to work with your children.
A cheap white glue, easy to make and without toxic elements for children.
For any questions, leave us your comment, below. We hope we have helped you!
Good afternoon:
What happens if I let it boil?
Hello Kenyi, in principle nothing happens, only that it overflows a lot and there will be some clump of more.
This super post but I could not see the video of how to make the glue
Oysters, I don't understand it, I see it well, maybe if you give it to watch it directly on YouTube or change the device?
Hello, will the mixture serve to replace the white glue in cardboard? I read a post where the girl says that because they are perishable edible ingredients, her pieces grew mold because over time they rot just like food, and if so, what can be done to avoid or eliminate their rotting process? Thanks in advance
It depends on the humidity where you put it, it may come out, yes, but it depends.
Where can I base it and what temperature should it be?
Hi Fanny. I always put it in recycled glass or plastic jars and keep it in the fridge if I want it to last longer, but if it is to spend quickly, it holds up well like any white glue. If you do, explain your experience to us, it is the recipe that works best for us 🙂
Hello! I doubt what properties and functions each element has, such as sugar, vinegar and bicarbonate. What is each one specifically for? Are there any that are precindicable?
Regards!
Antonia
Good Antonia, the function of these elements is to have a glue that sticks well and is malleable and soft at the same time. I've never done without any, I make the recipe since I was little and it's familiar and that's how I keep it 🙂
Will it help me to glue shoes?
I doubt maybe it hits that much, I never provided it for it.
hello for cardboard it works I want to make a shelf but I need to know if it is resistant
Cardboard and paper too 🙂
Thanks for the recipe, very useful. I want to know if it works to stick fabric on cardboard. I fear that this mixture with sugar is palatable to insects or attracts them. If you have any experience, please share.
Not that Dilminha knows, it doesn't attract insects for what I use it for 🙂
My gelatinous tail comes out, you can tell what I'm doing wrong. I follow all the steps but there is no way.
Maybe with a little more flour or with the heat a little stronger.
excellent
Thank you!
HELLO GOOD MORNING, I HAVE A DOUBT HOW LONG DOES THIS GLUE MIX LAST FOR ME BEFORE IT HARDENES OR DRIES, OR CAN I KEEP IT AS THE ORIGINAL WHITE PEGA ????
Hello Beatriz, I usually do it and keep it in the fridge for at most a month. But I usually make the necessary amount for my crafts and I have little left over, it's the best 🙂
What a beauty thank you and for me it is very useful to have found your page thank you this will help my nieces who are in school and I love it thank you
Ask this how do I know it feels in the hands is it also easy to remove?
Or if it falls on the clothes can it be removed soon?
It is not difficult not to remove it. Thanks for your comment 🙂
hello, very interesting post ... one question ... can sugar be substituted for salt?
Thanks Edgar, it will not do the same effect, the melting sugar causes the pasta to stick 🙂
Good afternoon now I'm doing it but I want to make a snowman it will work
If you do it with paper it will work, tell us your experience 🙂
Hello! Will I be able to stick pieces of mirror on cardboard with this? Or is it not strong enough?
I never tried mirror oysters with cardboard, try and see and tell us about it here 🙂
Good day! Does this glue withstand high temperatures (such as for binding a notebook that you want to take everywhere)? Can the flour be substituted for cornstarch (also known as Maicena in Chile) to make a finer mixture? Beforehand thank you very much.
Good morning, friend, I couldn't tell you exactly about the temperature, I've never tried it for binding. Cornstarch will surely work too if it is an equal binder and thickener, although we have never tried it 🙂 Tell us about your experience when you do.
Hello, what amount of ingredients should I use to have a smaller amount?
The proportional of all the ingredients 🙂
Hello, I can put this glue on top of any decoration, be it paper or paint and see it transparent,
On paper it works very well with or without paint and transparent, that will not be seen since it is white
One doubt, the mixture comes out very liquid and after a while a water is made on top of the mixture and when I put the homemade glue on a piece of paper, since it is so liquid it remains stained….what am I doing wrong? Thank you
Maybe it needs more flour, that and give it a little time in the fridge. Sometimes because of the heat or the type of water it makes different reactions.
Hello, I made the mixture and the same thing happens to me, I put water on top
maybe it has to do with how hard the water is, the lime it has
How do I know it's ready?
Hello Cristina, you will find it on maps 🙂
Could it be used to glue plastics onto cans?
I don't think Delfin, I haven't tried it, but it has one more use for paper and wood at most
it thickens 🙂
hello!! Will it work for me to stick paper on top of plastic bottles???
it worked for me in some crafts yes
Can it be used instead of school white glue to make stucco?
Can it be used instead of school white glue to make stucco?
No idea, I've never done it 🙁
It remains very dense and of a viscous consistency. Is there any way to make it become more liquid? Can it be dissolved with water? Approximately how long can it be stored?