There are lots of great slime recipes out there, but this is one we tried recently and the kids really liked it. It was stretchy, and not sticky!
Ingredients:
1 cup white glue
¼ cup hot water
Food coloring
1 tsp. baking soda
Shaving cream (about 1 ½ cups)
Saline solution for contact lenses (must contain sodium borate)
Mix the glue and water together in a medium bowl, then add the food coloring. Mix in enough to create a shade a little darker than you’d like, because the shaving cream will lighten the final color a bit. Mix in the baking soda thoroughly. Squirt in about 1 ½ cups shaving cream straight from the can (shake it well, first!) I don’t measure the shaving cream—I just have an idea of how much 1 ½ cups is and squirt it in. Mix well! If you add too much your slime will be extra fluffy—not a bad thing! Finally, mix in the contact solution. Add about 1 tablespoon at a time. The glue mixture will start to congeal as the contact solution does its thing! I end up adding about 1/8 cup, total. Keep mixing with a spoon until the slime starts to separate from the sides of the bowl; then use your hands to mix some more. If it’s still sticky, pour a little contact solution on your hands, rub them together and continue mixing.
A couple of tips:
- Be sure your child washes his hands after playing with the slime.
- Beware of adding too much contact solution. You’ll know you’ve used too much if the slime suddenly breaks when it’s being stretched!
- The slime will lose some of its “fluffiness” after a day or two as the air escapes from the shaving cream, but it will still be stretchy and fun to play with.
- Your slime will keep for over a month in a plastic container with a tight-fitting lid.