How to Make Earth Day Slime Recipe with Borax – Earth Day Science
Earth Day is coming soon, and we can’t wait! This year we are adding to a fun Earth Day theme with this awesome homemade slime. It’s not your typical Earth Day activity, like helping with pollution and cleaning up your community, but, this Earth Day Slime Recipe with Borax is super fun. Use it as a cool science project before you head outdoors. Earth Day is April 22. Will you be making any DIY slime recipes with your kids?
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How to Make Earth Day Slime Recipe with Borax
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Start by combining a 1/2 cup of glue with 1/2 cup of hot water in a large mixing bowl, and mix well.
Mix in your blue food coloring.
Next, mix a 1/2 teaspoon of borax into your remaining 1 cup of hot water and stir, letting the borax dissolve. Now pour the borax water into your glue mixture and stir (ingredients should start coming together quickly to form slime).
Pour out the excess water, remove the slime from the bowl and knead the slime in your hands for a couple of minutes.
Repeat steps 1-5 with green food coloring.
Lightly mix the two and sprinkle with glitter (glitter is optional).
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Slime Recipe with Borax
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Earth Day Slime Recipe
Ingredients per color
1/2 cup Elmer’s craft glue
1/2 teaspoon borax
1 1/2 cups hot water, divided
blue and green food coloring
Extra fine glitter
Directions
1. In a large mixing bowl, combine a 1/2 cup of glue with 1/2 cup of hot water and mix well.
2. Mix in your blue food coloring.
3. Mix a 1/2 teaspoon of borax into your remaining 1 cup of hot water and stir, letting the borax dissolve
4. Now pour the borax water into your glue mixture and stir (ingredients should start coming together quickly to form slime).
5. Pour out the excess water, remove the slime from the bowl and knead the slime in your hands for a couple of minutes.
6. Repeat steps 1-5 with green food coloring.
7. Lightly mix the two and sprinkle with glitter.
Enjoy your Earth Slime
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What do you think about this Earth Day Slime Recipe with Borax? Doesn’t it look like fun? I hope you give it a try and let us know how much your children love it.
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