Slime, a gooey and stretchy substance, is a popular sensory play material that can be customized to fit various themes, including Valentine’s Day.
I love to make slime and Valentine’s Day makes it a perfect occasion. Use our signature recipe to make yours!
This recipe is awesome because is less stretchy and slimy than store-bought slime which makes it easier to handle and less messy. And we can all use a bit of less messy activities right?!
Valentine’s Day Gift idea
If you want a creative valentine’s Day gift that is not candy, you can create custom jars with slime to give away.
These kits can include pre-measured ingredients, festive colors, glitter, and heart-shaped embellishments, or have the slime already made for others to enjoy.
Create Crunchy Slime
This year, we decided to change our slime tradition, from mixing pink and white slime, we created crunchy slime.
To make crunchy slime you need styrofoam beads. For Valentin’es Day we chose red and smaller purple ones, but you can recreate this idea for any ocassion! we had made birthday themed one with rainbow colored beads!
Make it a learning activity
Slime is great to work on fine motor skills. Squeezing, pulling and stretching will help your child strengthen their fingers, wrists and hand muscles.
But, adding non-sharp scissors, can be a great scissor activity to work on learning how to use scissors and understanding how siccors cut before giving them paper.
Ingredients
- 2 cups of white glue
- 2 tsp of borax
- Food coloring
- 2 ½ of boiling water
- 2 bowls
Instructions
- Boil around 3 cups of water.
- Once the water is boiled, mix 2 cups of white school glue with 1 ½ cup of water. Add a few drops of the food coloring of your choice.
- Mix with a spatula to combine both the glue and water mixture.
- On a separate bowl, add three teaspoons of borax and combine with 1 cup of boiling water.
- Mix well until the borax is dissolved.
- Add the color mixture into the activator (borax) mixture.
- Stir with a spoon slowly to get the glue to absorb the activator.
- Once the water has cool down a bit, start mixing the glue with your hand. I like to squeeze and stretch to allow the glue to spread apart and absorb any liquid.
- Continue this process of squeezing the glue with the palm of your hand. Continue stretching the slime until all the liquid has been absorbed or when you see the slime consistency that you want.
- Now that all the liquid has been absorbed, it is time to play!
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