How to make slime at home for kids

The tacky yet not so tacky world of Slime

Hey Mama’s, back again to the amazing world of sensory games for our children. One of the most loved play is with Slime.

  • It oozes between your fingers when you pick it up, yet it doesn’t stick to your skin.
  • It comes in a variety of colors.
  • It can be made to glow in the dark.
  • Amazing sensory play for all kids

5min Recipe to make slime at home for kids play :

There are numerous ways to make it, but the end result is always a cool concoction that can provide hours of fun. You can easily make it at home in less than 5 mins.

Recipe 1. Using borax

  • Make a saturated borax solution by adding 1gm of borax to 25 ml of water. Stir thoroughly until the borax has completely dissolved.
  • In a plastic cup, add 50 ml of white glue and 50 ml of water. Stir thoroughly
  • Add a few drops of food coloring and stir again.
  • Add borax solution drop by drop to the glue water mixture and stir with a stirring rod. It will start collecting on the rod.
  • Continue adding borax solution until most of the glue water mixture has turned into slime.
  • Remove the slime from the stirring rod with your fingers and work it with your hands until it is no longer sticky.
  • Store in a ziplock bag.

The second recipe does not require borax.

Recipe 2. Liquid starch slime

½ cup of white / clear glue

½ cup liquid starch

½ cup water

2 bowls and a spoon

Food coloring

Here’s how to go about:

  • Pour glue into water and stir well
  • Then add color, glitter in glue and water mixture. Mix them well.
  • Pour in ½ cup of liquid starch. You will see the slime immediately starts to come together.
  • Mix and knead well with hands for few minutes.

Its ready to play! The more you play, the smoother it gets.

  • You can use scented food coloring or essential oils for added sensory input.
  • Kids can also make bubbles by blowing air through straw into the slime.
  • There are a number of types of slime one can make, as snow, fluffy, magnetic, rainbow, glow in the dark, color changing slime and so on.

You might love reading some amazing Sensory games for kids and also how to make Play Dough at home, click here .

Enjoy this soft, squishy and tacky thing!!

This lovely guest post has been contributed by Rimjhim, who is a SAHM, a mom of two beautiful and naughty kids. She believes in raising kids developing their creative side and is strong preacher of Positive Parenting!

Jhilmil: Quest to live the life surrounded with the charming little bundle's of joy. When they speak, I sing, When they smile, I rejoice , When they hug, I hold them never to lose, Such is my passion for these Gifts of God. This love urged me to navigate separately from my Travel Blog & establish an "All-In-One" Blog for budding mothers. Mum's have multi-tasked this world ,with all her professional commitments , she still makes an extra effort to be a loving, caring and be an intellectual mommy! Cheers, for me too come from the same fraternity, post having a superb academics & close to 8 years of professional experience and blessed with a little one "who has indeed changed my life from Autumn to Spring";)

View Comments (40)

  • I found so many cool ideas and inspiration in this blog. I hope many of your readers has also been inspired to do such for their kids.

  • I keep buying slime and dough for my kid often. They do get hard in a few days. Will give this a try. Seems simple enough to make:)

  • Ohh wow I didnt know we could make our own slime! I loved them as kids...especially those slime arms that you can throw. I havent introduced slime to my daughter yet but I did buy the kinetic sand after I read your last post!

  • Looks like a coold diy toy for kids, and a good way to destress for adults. Can you make a scented slime?

  • As soon as my daughter becomes of age for such toys I am making her a bunch of this in every color of the rainbow. What? I am doing it for her...lol

  • Slime is a lot of fun. I did it with kids at my library and they absolutely loved it. I would have loved it when I was a kid. We went with detergent and not Borax though.