Slime!

Imagine for a moment, you have in your hand a ball of green, sticky, slippery, squishy, slime. You take your other hand and you gently put it on top of the slime ball, cupping your hands, surrounding the slime. You hold it, you look at it, and you feel it; then, all of a sudden – YOU SQUISH IT! Immediately the slime oozes between your fingers, splatting onto the table beneath your hands. You pull your hands apart and what's left is little green bits of goo stuck between your fingers, stuck on your palms, and the rest all over the table.

We did a fan-favourite for science day at Junior this past month. Together Aislinn and I tag-teamed and made slime with the kids. We used the usual mixture, water, Elmer’s white-glue, borax and some food colouring; however, we added in some sparkles and giant sparkles for that extra flair.  Kids got to choose from tiny fairy like sprinkles, to larger gold and silver ones. They were also allowed to put in some fun shaped sparkles that looked like stars, hearts, and leaves! We organized the activity so that each child would get two plastic cups. One cup would have two lines on it (for glue and water), and the other had one line for only water. We gave each child a cup with one line first, then a ¼ teaspoon or a 1/8 teaspoon. Depending on the number on their spoon, they either added one scoop or two of borax to their cup of water, then stirred until there was almost nothing left. Next, the kids were given their second cups with two lines. In this cup they poured white-glue to the first line, and then filled the cup with water until the second line. After, the kids got to stir the two liquids together, watching them combine into a thick white water. Then they chose two colours of food dye to add and mix in, along with their choice of sparkles. The final step was to pour the white-glue and water mixture into the cup of water and borax and then stir
! When the mixture was done, the kids had sparkly coloured slime to squish and enjoy.

Here’s the recipe below!

Materials:

-          Liquid Glue (1/2 cup)

-          Water (1/2 cup)

-          Food Colouring

-          Borax (1 tsp)

-          Water (1 Cup)

-          Two Plastic Cups

We scaled the recipe so that it could be made for twelve kids, then divided the total amount so each child had their own, smaller, proportion that would fit in the disposable cups we had.

Steps:

1.       In one cup, mix ½ cup glue and ½ cup water together, add food colouring and sparkles.

2.       In a different cup, mix 1 tsp Borax with 1 cup water, until the Borax is dissolved.

3.       Pour the water-glue mixture into the Borax-water and stir together.

4.       Keep mixing until the slime has been formed; you can kneed the mixture together to try to get as much water as possible – if there is left over water, don’t worry just pour it out!

And now you have your own slime!

Enjoy,

Katie