Long Rainbow String Gummy: English Instructions, Step by Step
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This one makes a single object: a rainbow gummy string, 60 centimetres long. You pick the colours, you load the press, and you push the string out yourself. It is less a recipe than a small piece of equipment, and that is exactly why children like it.
What You're Making
One 60cm String
A single continuous rope of gummy. The length is the point — it is longer than most children expect.
Your Colour Order
You decide which colours go in and in what sequence, so no two strings come out the same.
Stretch, Tear or Draw
It is soft enough to stretch, tear into pieces, or lay out on a plate to draw shapes and letters.
The Press Is the Whole Kit
Everything that makes this kit good or bad happens at the press. The mixing is trivial; the extrusion is where technique shows up.
Push slowly and evenly. A steady, gentle push gives you one long unbroken string. A hard shove gives you three short ones and a mess on the tray. There is no way to rejoin a broken string, so the pace of that single movement decides the result.
Getting a clean 60 centimetres
- Load the colours in deliberate order. They come out in the order they go in. Random loading gives muddy transitions.
- Don't overfill. More mixture does not make a longer string, it makes the press harder to push.
- Push with one continuous movement. Stopping and restarting is where breaks happen.
- Have the surface ready. A plate or the tray from the box, clean and within reach, before you start pressing.
How to Make It
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Mix each colour separately
Follow the water amounts on your box for each colour base. Too much water gives a slack mixture that will not hold a string shape.
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Load the press in the order you want
Colours emerge in loading order. If you want a clean rainbow, load it deliberately rather than dropping colours in at random.
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Press slowly and continuously
One steady movement. This is the step that decides whether you get one long string or several short ones.
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Lay it out as it comes
Guide the string onto a plate as it emerges instead of letting it pile up on itself, or it will stick to itself and tear when you separate it.
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Play with it before you eat it
Stretch it, coil it, write with it. The string stays workable for a while and this is most of the fun of the kit.
If the String Kept Breaking
Breaking almost always means one of two things: the mixture was too wet, or the push was too hard. Both are easy to correct on a second pack. A mixture that is slightly stiff presses better than one that is slightly loose.
If you want the same idea with more structure, the rest of our kit guides are here.
For a long gummy you pull rather than press, see Gumi Tsureta.