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Easy Slime Recipe

July 6, 2018 By Vicky Leave a Comment

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Are your kids obsessed with slime? Everyday my kids ask me if they can make slime. But they are not the only ones asking for slime. You readers have been requesting slime as well, and this Easy Slime Recipe is one of our favorites. If you are looking for a borax free slime that is super stretchy and colorful, this is it! Enjoy making and playing with this easy slime! We also have some more Easy Slime Recipes you might enjoy.

This easy slime recipe with teach you how to make colorful striped slime. So simple and fun for kids! #slimerecipe #slime #boraxfreeslime

Please supervise your kids when making slime and have them wash their hands when they are done playing. This is not edible.


Easy Slime Recipe

  • Elmer’s Liquid School Glue – White
  • Purex Sta-Flo Liquid Starch
  • Acrylic Paint in Black, Purple, Blue, Red (these are the exact ones used for this slime)
  • 4 glass bowls
  • Spoons for stirring

acrylic paint in white bowls

Pour 1/2 cup white glue in each bowl. Squeeze some black paint into one bowl, red in another, blue in another and purple in the last bowl. You can add more paint for deeper colors or less for more pastel hues.

 bowls of white glue with different colors of paint in them

Add 1/3 cup of Sta-Flo Liquid Starch to each bowl.

pour liquid starch into a bowl of glue and red paint

Stir the ingredients together. You can also stir the paint and glue together first before adding the liquid starch. Either order is fine. Make sure you mix the slime well. Often slime errors can be attributed to not mixing enough. It takes a little bit of time to get everything mixed well. If it is still too sticky, add in some more liquid starch, a tiny bit at a time.

After stirring, remove the starch and start to mold the slime around on your hands. It will be sticky at first, but the more you pull and play with it, the less it will stick.

spoon stirring an easy slime recipe

You will repeat this process with all the colors of slime you are making. By now you should have 4 colors of slime. Next, it is time to line them up.

Pour purple slime into a long strip on some wax paper and pour the red slime next to it. Pour the blue slime next to the red, and finally, pour a thin strip of black slime on the red. Don’t worry about the widths of the purple, blue or purple slimes. They don’t all need to be the same. Of course you can order the colors in any way and size you wish (that is the beauty of slime!). I am just sharing how to get the slime to look like the one in the photo.

striped slime

Now you can pick up the slime and fold and twist it and watch as the colors change and new ones appear.

hands holding colorful slime

Your kids will be fascinated as they play with and mold the slime and it changes colors right before their eyes.

easy slime recipe

You can store this in a zip top plastic bag or plastic container with a lid. Making slime is such a fun sensory activity for kids. Try this easy slime recipe with a variety of paint colors or tailor it to any theme you have going on. It is so easy to change this up!

This easy slime recipe with teach you how to make colorful striped slime. So simple and fun for kids! #slimerecipe #slime #boraxfreeslime

Looking for more fun activities to do with your kids? I highly recommend KiwiCo, which you can enjoy no matter the weather. As a former teacher, I was really impressed with the quality of materials found in KiwiCo. Some moms have told me that they want to do activities like I do on Mess For Less with their kids, but they just don’t have to the time to go buy all the supplies and prepare them for the activity. KiwiCo is the perfect solution. Every month your KiwiCo will focus on a particular theme like Colors, Dinosaurs or Gardening. KiwiCo offer a variety of projects ranging from crafts, imaginative play, science experiments and more.

If you liked this easy slime recipe, you’ll love:

Tinkerbell Slime without Borax

Pom Pom Slime for Kids

Slushie Slime Recipe

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