How to Make Jiggly Slime Learning Activities Awesome

It stretches. It oozes. It bounces. Is it a liquid? Is it a solid? It’s slime! Our awesome homemade slime recipes will show you how to make jiggly slime learning activities that can’t be beat. The best thing about this awesome slime is how versatile it is to pair with your favorite early learning activities for a new twist.

HOW TO MAKE JIGGLY SLIME LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

My blogging buddy from Little Bins for Little Hands is a genius when it comes to anything slime related. So when I started getting comments and interest in the Jiggly Slime Recipe and ideas that we shared, I knew I had to get Sarah over here. Her amazing slime recipes will have every child, teenager, and adult addicted to this squishy, stretchy fun.

Everyone asks, what’s so great about slime?

We love slime making for the cool chemistry experiment that it is, but we also love it for it’s unique tactile sensory experience. Read more about the science behind the slime here and learn all about polymers and cross linking! It’s cool stuff. Combine science, sensory, and other early learning activities all in one activity.

HOW CAN YOU LEARN WITH JIGGLY SLIME?

Our jiggly slime learning activities can be paired with literacy, science, math, fine motor, and social emotional skills for an amazing hands on learning and playing experience. As you sit with your kids and explore the slime activities together, listen for all the great early learning that is taking place.

I have always found that kids love to learn by getting there hands into the materials, and our slime recipes are no exception! We have several different slime recipes that we love to use! Our favorite recipe for putting together jiggly slime learning activities is our traditional slime recipe. Click here to check out all the recipes to see which one you like best.

HOW TO MAKE JIGGLY SLIME FOR FINE MOTOR SKILLS

A great hand strengthening activity is to search for mini items, like all those tiny LEGO pieces, hidden in the slime. Your kids will work on improving fine motor dexterity, hand -eye coordination, and overall hand strength. Our LEGO fine motor treasure slime is a perfect example!

JIGGLY SLIME FOR SOCIAL EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Another terrific way to use slime is for exploring emotions. We put together this simple jiggly slime learning idea after watching the movie Inside Out. It was a perfect way to discuss our upcoming move to a new house while engaging in sensory play. See our Inside Out Emotions slime here!

JIGGLY SLIME FOR EARLY SCIENCE PLAY

We already know that just making slime is a cool chemistry experiment, but we found a way to add a little more science to it. Perfect if your kids aren’t ready to learn about polymers, molecules, and so on! We made a super easy magnetic slime with contents of our magnetic science kit Check out our magnetic slime here.

HOW TO MAKE JIGGLY SLIME FOR LETTERS AND NUMBERS

There are actually quite a few ways you can use this alphabet jiggly slime! Plus you can use any small plastic letters or numbers! Some of the activities for this alphabet slime include letter recognition, building sight words, exploring word families, and of course using fine motor skills too.

If you stick with the scrabble tiles {check second hand stores for a set}, you can also work on number recognition and writing out math sentences. You can also switch the theme up with just using small plastic numbers to work solely on math skills.

JIGGLY SLIME PAIRED WITH BOOKS!

Some of our awesome jiggly slime learning ideas include pairing the slime with books! Of course, we need to give our slimes special themes to go along with the stories. Here’s our Lorax Slime and we also have a Cat In The Hat Slime!

This is a great way to add in literacy with great sensory play, and it’s the perfect time to chat with your kids about the book you have just read to them!

JIGGLY SLIME SMALL WORLD PLAY

Another super fun early learning idea, that is perfect for young kids, is to set up a small world using slime! Check out how we made a dinosaur small world and used our slime as a volcano! Add other small accessories and dinosaurs.

You can easily add in favorite dinosaur books, count the dinosaurs, and make up great pretend play stories too. This is another terrific way to work on social skills! Learn more about volcanos and build a volcano in your sand box too.