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How To Make 3-Ingredient Slime Without Borax

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It was my 5-year-old who introduced me to homemade slime via YouTube — something she's allowed to watch during her allotted screen time. I was surprised past how piece of cake it was to make. The offset recipe nosotros tried involved Borax, something I had on paw from an experiment in making my own laundry detergent (this was earlier I had two children, patently). The resulting slime was fine, but smelled noxious and I ended up throwing it abroad later on about an hour of play.

Repeated requests for more slime led me downwards a rabbit hole of slime recipes — slime fabricated with yogurt, another with cornstarch and glue, and a disastrous batch made with shaving foam. Either the recipe didn't hold up well to play or they didn't work at all. That's until we plant this one. This slime recipe calls for just three ingredients — school glue, baking soda, and contact solution — each of which we have on paw at all times.

Why Am I Reading About Slime on Kitchn?

Off-white question, dear reader. Consider slime an example of one of the many not-cooking projects that happen in the kitchen. Making slime, similar making pasta, is one of the ways I engage with my kids in the kitchen. Plus making slime is fun (and a slap-up activity to do during winter break). You'll be surprised how apace the slime comes together and how long your kids will play with the slime afterwards.

Because the winter is loooooonnnnnggg. Slime is an ideal placidity-play activity. We tin can mix some upwardly and I can work side by side to them at the kitchen table while they play.

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Is This Slime Safe?

Borax is a popular ingredient for making slime, but across my own negative experience with stinky borax-based slime, in that location is pause for concern in using Borax to make slime. Borax is a chemical cleaner and unchecked repeated and prolonged exposure to it is bad for your skin and potentially bad for your health. This is paraphrasing from a box of Borax.

Several news articles have suggested that Borax play is fine in small doses, if the Borax is diluted and everyone wears gloves. Personally I'd rather non take any chances and employ this baking soda and saline solution instead. Besides, it makes a more supple and like shooting fish in a barrel-to-squeeze slime.

5 Tips for Slime Creation and Play

• Buy travel-sized contact solution if yous don't have a contact lens wearer at home to avoid waste. The 2-ounce travel-sized bottle is enough for ane batch of slime and less expensive than a full-sized bottle.
• The dollar store is a corking place to buy glue, baking soda, glitter, tablecloths, etc. to make slime at domicile affordable.
• Cover your table with an oilcloth or outdoor tablecloth, which makes for easier cleanup. Plastic placemats or flexible cutting boards are also great for protecting surfaces during slime play.
• Remember to wash your easily and avoid touching your rima oris while playing with any kind of slime.
• Slime volition become harder to clean off once it dries (it is glue, after all!) and then soak mixing tools in warm soapy h2o while y'all play, and be certain to give your play infinite a quick wipe-down when y'all are done.

All y'all need to make condom slime at home without borax is gum, baking soda, contact solution, and a picayune glitter. It's a fun and safety action for kids.

• alcohol-free
• paleo
• kidney-friendly
• peanut-gratis
• low-potassium
• pork-free
• pescatarian
• gluten-free
• tree-nut-free
• low-sodium
• red-meat-free
• wheat-free
• dairy-free
• fish-free
• vegetarian
• shellfish-free
• vegan
• sugar-conscious
• no-oil-added
• depression-carbohydrate
• soy-gratis
• egg-free

Per serving, based on

460

servings. (% daily value)

• Calories 0
• Fat
• Saturated
• Carbs
• Fiber
• Sugars
• Protein
• Sodium 2.7 mg (0.1%)

Ingredients

• 2

  (4-ounce) bottles washable school glue, such as Elmer's (see notation for variations)

• i to 2 drops

  liquid food coloring (optional)

• one/four loving cup

  glitter (optional)

• one teaspoon

  baking soda

• 2 to 3 tablespoons

  saline solution (i.e., contact lens solution), divided

Equipment

• Measuring spoons

• Drinking glass or plastic mixing basin

• Mixing spoon

• Airtight container for storage

Instructions

1. Color the glue (optional): Pour the gum into a medium bowl. Stir in the food coloring and glitter, if desired. This mixture doesn't need to be homogeneous, as y'all'll mix it fifty-fifty more after adding the baking soda.

2. Add the baking soda: Add the baking soda to the glue mixture and stir until polish.

3. Add together the contact lens solution: Cascade in 2 tablespoons of the contact lens solution and stir slowly. The mixture should begin to harden, becoming stringy.

4. Mix until a ball forms: Go along mixing slowly until a ball of slime forms.

5. Knead by hand: Selection up the slime and work between your two hands, until smooth. If the slime is particularly slimy, work in some other 1/2 tablespoon of contact lens solution as needed.

6. PLAYING WITH SLIME! Once mixed, yous can play with the slime immediately or store for future play.
   

   • Hidden Figures: Fold small figures or cars into the slime and ask your children to find them.
   • Polka-Dot Slime: Fold 10 to xv soft pom-poms into clear slime (no coloring, no glitter)
   • Cut-and-Measure Slime: Provide your kids with a metal or plastic ruler and kid-rubber pair of scissors. See who tin stretch their slime the furthest. Or practise counting and cutting the slime into x-inch pieces.

Recipe Notes

• Storage: Store in an airtight container at room temperature.
• Glitter gum slime: Glitter glue is wonderful way to add glitter to your slime and information technology is much less messy, if you can find it. Skip the optional glitter called for hither if using glitter glue.

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Meghan Splawn

Food Editor, Skills

Meghan was the Food Editor for Kitchn'due south Skills content. She's a master of everyday blistering, family cooking, and harnessing good light. Meghan approaches food with an eye towards budgeting — both time and money — and having fun. Meghan has a baking and pastry degree, and spent the first 10 years of her career as part of Alton Dark-brown's culinary team. She co-hosts a weekly podcast about food and family called Didn't I Just Feed You.

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