Slime Time!

We had a party yesterday - a Mini Pre-Halloween party of sorts. You see, our next three weekends are jam-packed with plans so I knew we wouldn't have time to have a little in-house celebration on actual Halloween...so we partied like it was 1999 yesterday. Whoop!

Last year I planned a Halloween party for the kids and us adults alike, and for those of you that know us well, you know the HUGE roadblock that almost put my plans to a screeching halt - but I carried on with the festivities the best I could and I think I did pretty darn good considering. This year I knew such a thing couldn't happen and yet I wanted the celebration to be just between the kidlets and I (Daddy's gone to IFS), I guess, in a way, to make up for last year, plus, some "Mommy Time" is always nice - right?! 

So we started by making sliiiiiiiime! I found the receipe to make the slime from a birthday party website a couple of years ago (one of those sites that give you ideas of activities to do at parties) I think it was this website but don't quote me on that. Ethan LOVES science and for his 8th birthday we did a science party and it was a MEGA hit with all his friends. Even the adults loved a lot of the experiments we did. Anyhoo, below is what I did to make it (I did it from memory, you'll see why when you look at the ingredients). 

What you need (for each batch of slime):

1 teaspoon of Borax

A bottle of Elmer's glue

Water

Food coloring

Yup...that's it folks - nothin' fancy, now can you see why a recipe isn't needed even two years later. ;)

So we started by putting 1 cup of water in a glass and mixing in the borax til it dissolved. 

In a separate bowl, pour in the entire bottle of glue.

Add about 1/2 cup of water in with the glue.

Add food coloring until you get the desired color you're going for (beware, if it's red you want you are going to use almost half of the bottle - my oldest kept saying, "Mom? It's pink" with this, "how totally gross is that" look on his face).

Stir all that up 'til it's nice and smooth.

Next, add the borax mixture to the glue mixture. It'll look kinda weird, but no worries, it's all good.

Now use your hands to mix it all up. Keep mixing, it'll take a few minutes to get a good consistency. I had to knead my little one's for a good five minutes for some reason, while my older two had a good hunk of slime within the first minute.

This is what it looks like at first

It's gettin' there...

Tada!

You are going to have some excess water/liquid in the bowl - just toss it.

Now let the slime playing begin!

This kept my brood busy long enough for me to get our next activity ready. You can even store it in little sandwich baggies to use again and again. 

After we made it at my son's birthday party a few years ago, it lasted a good month or so before I trashed it.

Be on the prowl, more of our Mini Pre-Halloween shenanigans will be posted throughout the next few days! 

Thanks for looking.

XO, 

LOR