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
I live in the UK but I love the idea of making this with my little boy…could I use any glitter glue do you think or does it have to be Elmers please?
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Hi. Thanks for sharing this. I am going to do this with kids later but just wondering if there are any other material could replace borax?
Hey I want to do this for my daughter’s birthday, but am wondering how much one bottle of glue makes. Does it fill up one small baby food jar, or a few? THANKS! I am excited to make this! Janelle
One glue bottle makes about 3 of the really small jars… Have fun!
THANKS!!
Thank you so much for sharing this! We made some yesterday – however we couldn’t get the glitter glue and used glitter paint instead. We had to alter the amounts but were very happy with the results! I’m going to post some pics and a link to your page on our blog tonight at Paging Fun Mums. I hope that’s okay with you?
Thanks again
Louise
do you think this will work w regular white school glue, food coloring, and adding glitter? then you complete the slime w the borax etc?
Yes, it does. It makes it even more slimy. It is awesome!
My son is very allergic to Borax, is there a substitute you have found?
Oh Desirée! This looks so pretty!!! Too bad we don’t find that glue here. What I’ll sure try it’s your recipe to make Kool Aid play dough. After Easter we’ll be celebrating the Special Needs Week, I was wondering what to give to my kids as a present. I have 18 of them. The play dough seems like a wonderful idea.
Thanks!
Have fun Sandra!
So if the slime gets too hard, i found out that all you have to do is break and crumble it as much as you can and put it into a container that has a lid (and a large space for water) and add water. I added a cup of water to mine and left it covered to sit for a few days, it absorbed the water and became soft enough to play with!
hi,
can you tell me how long this stores for?. I am wanting to make some for my sons party and put into the party loot bags.
Also can you tell me what Borax is asI will need to find a substitute for it here in Australia.
Thanks
Borax is sodium borate, and is usually found in the same area of the store as your laundry detergents.