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Easy Pond Inspired Homemade Slime Recipe

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It has been such a great month of pond activities. I love incorporating themes into our everyday learning. Don’t you? Today, I am sharing one of our favorite homemade sensory play ideas, Slime! If your kids like sensory play, I know they will love this awesome homemade slime.  Have fun adding wildlife to this slime and squish, squeeze, and pull this DIY slime to make it your own pond.

Homemade Slime Recipe – Pond Theme

Pond Inspired Homemade Slime, Perfect DIY Sensory Play, Great Pond Theme Activity for a Pond Unit Study, Easy to Make and Fun to Play with.

Pond Theme Homemade Slime

Pond Inspired Homemade Slime, Perfect DIY Sensory Play, Great Pond Theme Activity for a Pond Unit Study, Easy to Make and Fun to Play with.

Our homemade slime journey started when we read the book Night of the Moonjellies last year. While we were learning all about jellyfish, I thought it would be fun to use slime to explore texture and form. That was just the beginning of our slime ideas. We love slime!!!

Pond Inspired Homemade Slime, Perfect DIY Sensory Play, Great Pond Theme Activity for a Pond Unit Study, Easy to Make and Fun to Play with.

We love this setup with animals and pond trinkets. We used flowers from the garden, glass beads and Safari toob animals.  Everyone in our house loves this homemade slime! Even Daddy got into playing with it 😉

Pond Inspired Homemade Slime, Perfect DIY Sensory Play, Great Pond Theme Activity for a Pond Unit Study, Easy to Make and Fun to Play with.

Little B loves sensory play, but I have to be careful since he likes to put everything in his mouth. I did not make this edible. He had so much fun, though 🙂 Pure joy!

Pond Inspired Homemade Slime, Perfect DIY Sensory Play, Great Pond Theme Activity for a Pond Unit Study, Easy to Make and Fun to Play with.

Homemade Slime Recipe

8 oz. of white school glue (we prefer Elmer’s)

1 teaspoon of Borax (you can find this in the laundry detergent area of your store)
Food color or Wilton Icing Color
optional: essential oils
Directions:
To start you pour the glue into a bowl
fill the glue bottles (8oz total) with warm water. Add the water to the glue and stir.
Add your color
In a separate bowl
add 1/2 cup warm water to 1 teaspoon of Borax
mix until the Borax is dissolved
Slowly add that to your glue mixture and stir it up

let sit for approximately 3-5 minutes and it’s ready for play.

Pond Inspired Homemade Slime, Perfect DIY Sensory Play, Great Pond Theme Activity for a Pond Unit Study, Easy to Make and Fun to Play with.

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Pond Inspired Homemade Slime, Perfect DIY Sensory Play, Great Pond Theme Activity for a Pond Unit Study, Easy to Make and Fun to Play with.

Interested in other pond activities or sensory play ideas click on these links below:

Pond Theme Activities – STEM – Free Printables

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Exploring Life at the Pond (Free Printable Scavenger Hunt)

pond life pin

Super Squishy DIY Soap Dough

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