Slime

I have an 8 year old. I know what they think about slime. If it’s from adding hand soap at school to blu tack, they know what they like. I’ve been looking around for an easy to follow recipe for slime which doesn’t include borax or boric acid – and came across this simple one.

You need PVA glue. I bought a large pot from TTS, an educational supplier which was really cheap.

The problem with the glue is you don’t want it too sticky and you don’t want it too runny. Generally most recipes will tell you to use anything with borax or boric acid in (like contact lens solution), but I wanted to avoid it, so went for Kershaw’s Laundry Starch which was quite cheap via Amazon. You don’t need much.

It was as simple as putting the PVA glue into a pot, adding small quantities of the starch and watching it bind together almost immediately.

Too sticky? Add starch.

Too runny? Add more PVA glue.

Don’t add glitter though, it gets too messy. Glitter glue, however, looks quite pretty and doesn’t make as much mess and helps make the goo a little bit more stretchy.

This is my first try when I added glitter

versus Shaun’s with the glitter glue.

I think I prefer Shaun’s way…  don’t tell him!