I am sharing today a tutorial that your kiddos will love. We { Mimi and I } are showing you how to make Slime
in just four simple steps. Well, not just slime but awesome Glittered Slime!
Your kids are going to love you!!!!
How fun is this?
Let’s get with it!
MATERIALS
1 Elmer’s Glitter Glue
1 Cup Water
1 tsp. Borax
1 Tb Water
{ You can replace the Glitter Glue for regular white glue to make normal slime }
TUTORIAL
1
Mix 1 tsp. Borax and 1 Cup water together.
You can find the Borax at your local stores in the Laundry section.
Call me crazy but I love the box.
2
Have your little helper empty the Glitter Glue into a bowl.
Oh the anticipation!
3
Add 1 TB. Water to the glue and mix it together.
This will help the glue to become a little more flexible.
4
Then pour the Borax mixture inside of the bowl.
Let their little hands work the magic as they combine the glue and the mixture together.
Right away you will see how the Glitter Slime will start to form.
I love this part when you hear them say oooh and cool at the same time!
Isn’t it pretty?
Don’t leave the slime in the water mixture too long since it will make the slime too hard.
Finish mixing it in your hands.
It will look like this!
TIP: Don’t throw the extra Borax mixture yet.
If the slime gets too slimy you can put it back inside and it will harden some more.
We made the Glitter Slime in three colors.
At this point all that was left was to have fun…
Time to play!
To store it we used baby food jars.
And it was at this point that I thought
Wait a minute!
What about if we make some Halloween Glitter Slime Monsters with it.
So we did!
You can check out the tutorial here.
They should be scary but I am going to say that they are super cute!
Happy Tuesday!
Besos
Desirée
What a cute project! I love it so much that I decided to feature it in our roundup of glitter crafts! Check it out here: http://www.favecraftsblog.com/link-love-glitter-crafts/
Have a great day!
Just got all the stuff for this today — can’t wait till the day care kids get here on Monday so we can make it!!!
LIndsey @ GrowingKidsMinistry.com
The borax is necessary to cross-link the PVA molecules together. Without it, you would just have glue water.
http://askville.amazon.com/glue-borax-chemically-react-make-goo/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=1613548
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flubber_(material)
If you are worried about your kid eating it, then your kid is too young to be playing with it. The borax is significantly diluted, so I would be more concerned about choking/suffocation or getting the stuff out of hair and carpet.
hi!, i have one little question ¿what is slime? i undertand is for playing (sorry my english isn’t very good :P)
is something like play-doh? look so cute and i think my littles daugthers love it
Slime is not like play dough. It is just like a jelly like substance. Kids like to run their fingers in it. It’s just for fun. Very messy, though. For older kids, not toddlers.
This idea is so cute! I was wondering where you purchased the big bottles of glitter glue? I can only find small bottles and not those pretty colors 🙁
Thanks,
Cathy
It was made with the small bottles. Check out at WalMart they have them there.
I really love this! We are wanting to do this for my sons class instead of candy at halloween. But I just made it with my son and the slime is harder than I thought and breaks apart easily, is it suppose to be this way??
Tonya,
The consistency will depend of how long you keep it in the water. It gets harder longer you keep it in.
Does one bottle of glue make just enough for one baby food jar, or can it cover several jars?
It will make aaround three of the very small ones.
how many ounces were the glue bottles?
The bottles are 6 fl. oz each.
I wonder if you can use liquid starch. I have some left over from my son’s Mad Scientist party. We mixed equal parts white glue, water and liquid starch to make our slime. The glitter in this one is awesome and I love the Halloween gift idea. My youngest’s class only has six students.
What is the consistency supposed to be?