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How to make slime

written by Hugh Wilson 30th October 2017
how to make slime

Slime is everywhere at the moment, kids love it and - guess what - it’s easy and loads of fun to make yourself. Here’s how to make slime…

You want to make slime. No, really you do.

Here's how to make slime
Step 1 – Get the right ingredients
Step 2 – Measure
Step 3 – Combine for a few minutes
Step 4 – Get messy with your hands!
Step 5 – Manipulate the goo.
Step 6 – Decorate with food colouring and more.
Step 7 – Celebrate!

 

When someone suggested I make slime with my seven-year-old daughter three reasons not to make slime with my daughter immediately leapt to mind.

  • It will be really messy
  • I’ll mess it up and my daughter will forever see me as the dad who couldn’t make slime
  • Who wants slime anyway?

In fact, making slime was easy, loads of fun, and the end results were really quite impressive. Most of all, for reasons perhaps even they don’t understand, kids love the stuff. So without further ado, and just in time for Halloween, here’s how to make slime, featuring slime queen Poppy.

Time needed: 15 minutes.

 

Step 1 – Get the right ingredients

You’ll need glue – the white, pouring stuff that kids use at school (PVA), and something else. Our ‘something else’ was Almat Non Bio super concentrated washing liquid, available from Aldi. Other people recommend different products (Formil from Lidl, content lens solution, etc – all of which contain boric acid in some form) but this is the one that worked best for us. Don’t ask me about the chemistry involved, but something in the detergent takes the stickiness out of the glue and makes it all rubbery and fun. That’s it. It’s the ingredient of fun.

And that’s it for essentials. You can add food colouring, sparkly things and so on as a way to make your slime more interesting, but it’s up to you.

slime ingredients

 

Step 2 – Measure

Measure 250ml of the glue and pour it into a bowl. Add one tablespoon of ‘fun’ (Almat).

slime measure

 

slime combine

 

Step 3 – Combine for a few minutes

Use a spoon to combine the ingredients and stir to mix for a few minutes. The mixture will start to thicken and clag but persevere until the mixture starts to come away from the edges of the bowl.

 

slime mix

 

slime mix

 

Step 4 – Get messy with your hands!

Now it’s time to pick up your slime which at this stage will feel like a big sticky mess. Do not despair, slimers! Start passing the slime between one hand and the other. At first, it will leave a lot of the mixture behind on each hand, but after a minute or two a miracle happens. The slime ball not only stops leaving bits of itself behind on your hands, it actually starts to collect the stuff it had previously left behind! As miracles go it’s not up there with the loaves and fishes, but it’s pretty good!

 

slime hands

 

slime hands

 

Step 5 – Manipulate the goo.

Now you can start to manipulate the gooey lump, stretching, squashing and so on. Do this for a bit and, et voila!, you have working slime.

 

slime stretch

 

slime stretch

 

slime finished

 

slime finished

 

Step 6 – Decorate with food colouring and more.

Once you’ve perfected the art, you can start to make fancy slime. For your next attempt, at step 3 add a teaspoon of food colouring or a few sparkly stars. Then continue as normal. Once it’s done, you can even cut it with scissors!

slime colour

 

slime green

 

slime scissors

 

Step 7 – Celebrate!

Finally, sit back, relax and bask in the rare and unexpected sense of achievement that comes with actually completing a craft activity successfully. You probably deserve a nap.

 

slime

How to make slime was last modified: March 16th, 2018 by Hugh Wilson

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8 comments

Zaleina @ Simply Zal 31st October 2017 at 12:38 am

Funny article! Slime is a major stress reliever for my daughter but I can’t stand to see the mess while she’s making it. She loves it though!

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DaddiLife 31st October 2017 at 5:20 pm

Haha – good to know. Keep the fun (slime) times going.

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Winter activities for dads and children - DaddiLife 14th November 2017 at 5:38 pm

[…] And if all else fails, you can always make slime! […]

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Marty Rogers 29th January 2018 at 11:03 pm

This is so cool, I’m going to give it a try with my two! Wish me luck! haha

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DaddiLife 29th January 2018 at 11:09 pm

Nice. Let us know how it goes.

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Ciaran Kenny 4th February 2018 at 10:04 pm

Tried it with my two daughters ….wow this complex scientific mixture worked… We have tried everything to make slime ,came so close so many times but just couldn’t get the right consistency…… thanks so much…it’s a dad’s life

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DaddiLife 4th February 2018 at 10:11 pm

Haha – awesome. If you’ve got any pics do send them through – would love to share it around the community.

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The New Dad’s Survival Guide - A roundup for dads, by dads - DaddiLife 9th March 2018 at 1:09 pm

[…] Never underestimate the power of slim, especially as they get older. You can even make your own. […]

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