Do you love to make slime? Feel it squish between your fingers? You can make slime with ingredients found in your home. I’ll show you how to make the Alachua Branch Teen Party slime and you can recreate it with the ingredients below or you can explore more slime recipe options to find one that uses ingredients you have on hand. Have fun and experiment. Find out what works and what doesn’t.
Alachua Branch Teen Party Slime Ingredients
½ cup of glue
½ cup of shaving cream
1 ¼ cup of water (You will need 1 cup heated for about 40 seconds and another ¼ cup of water separate from that)
1 tsp of borax
2 tsp of fake snow (optional)
Food Coloring (Optional)
Lotion (Optional)
Did you know the Alachua County Library District gives library card holders access to Creativebug? Creativebug has hundreds of virtual art classes and projects. There is even a class that will teach you have to make Galaxy Slime.
https://www.creativebug.com/classseries/single/galaxy-slime
You can also check out our catalog for books on how to make slime. Here are a few of our favorite titles:
Slippery Slime by Cody Crane
101 Kids activities that are the ooey, gooey-est ever!: nonstop fun with DIY slimes, doughs, and moldables by Jamie Harrington
Goo Makers by Kelly Milner Halls
Slime 101: How to Make Stretchy, Fluffy, Glittery & Colorful Slime! By Natalie Wright
The Slime Workshop: 20 DIY Projects to Make Awesome Slimes – All Borax Free! By Selina Zhang
Mason Jar Science: 40 slimy, squishy, super-cool experiments by Jonathan Adolph
Below are some recipes for making different types of slime. All ideas are from “Karina Garcia’s DIY Slime: 15 Cool, Easy, Borax-Free Recipes!”
Basic Slime by Karina Garcia
Karina Garcia says of the Basic Slime Recipe, “Although I’m constantly coming up with new types of slime, I’ll never forget the old, basic slime that got me started. Whenever I make Basic Slime, I’m always reminded of the playful, creative, and slime-filled life it has led me to.”
4 oz. PVA Glue
Food coloring: optional
½ tsp. baking soda mixed with 3-4 tbsp. contact lens solution
A small-to-medium-size mixing bowl
Mixing utensil (spoon, silicone spatula, or craft sticks)
- Pour 4 oz. PVA glue into the mixing bowl.
- If you want your slime to be colorful, here’s your chance! Add 3 drops of food coloring to the glue and mix it together with the utensil.
- Slowly mix the baking soda and contact solution into the batter, adding only a little bit at a time—and don’t use all of it. (Dumping it all in at once will ruin your batch and you will need to start over.)
- Once the batter starts to come together into one large blob-like clump, discard the utensil and start kneading the dough with your hands. It will be a bit sticky.
- Add in the rest of the baking soda and contact lens solution very slowly as you continue to knead it with your hands. You’ll know it’s ready when it’s soft and stretchy but doesn’t stick to your hands.
Flubber Soap by Karina Garcia
Karina Garcia says of the Flubber Soap recipe, “This is not just any soap! It’s squishy soap, falling somewhere between doughy and slimy. I came up with this idea by accident while attempting to make a clay-like soap.”
¾ cup and 2 tbsp. of cornstarch
½ cup of nicely scented shampoo
1 tsp. cooking oil or baby oil
Food coloring: optional
A small-to-medium-size mixing bowl
Mixing utensil (spoon, silicone spatula, or craft sticks)
- Mix ½ cup shampoo with ¾ cup cornstarch in the mixing bowl with the utensil. It will soon start to look and feel like thick paste.
- Still mixing, add 1 tsp. oil to the batter, which will make the texture sticky.
- Slowly pour in 2 tbsp. cornstarch with one hand as you knead the mixture with the other.
- Optional: If you’d like the Flubber Soap more colorful, add food coloring! The Pigment in the shampoo will have already given the slime a color, but you can switch it up with food coloring.