How to Make Sand Slime – Perfect Summer Theme Activity

This Sand Slime recipe is so easy to make. Kids love playing with homemade sand slime. Add it to an ocean theme for hands-on learning, or make this beach slime recipe for any summer science activity. This is the perfect summer sensory play idea, too. Homemade Slime is the best!

Homemade Sand Slime Recipe

How to Make Sand Slime – Perfect Summer Theme Activity

If you can’t get to the beach this year or want to bring the beach back home with you, make a batch of homemade sand slime with your kids. It’s so much fun! Add shells, crabs, polished rocks, and driftwood for the perfect DIY Sand Slime experience.

Jiggly Slime Recipe for a Beach Theme

What you will need to make your Sand Slime Recipe is in this picture below. However, I have it displayed in list form towards the bottom of the page. Have Fun!

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How to Make Sand Slime

In a large mixing bowl, combine a 1/2 cup of glue with 1/2 cup of hot water and mix well.

Mix in your sand.

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 the ingredients should start coming together quickly to form your sand slime.

Pour out the excess water, remove the slime from the bowl and knead the slime in your hands for a couple of minutes.

 

Sand Slime with Borax

This sand slime feels so cool. It’s stretchy, squishy, and so much fun. Plus, it is a textured slime that kids love playing with.

Sand Slime Recipe

Ingredients
1/2 cup Elmer’s craft glue
1/2 teaspoon borax
1 1/2 cups hot water, divided
1/4 cup sand

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 sand.
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.

Have fun playing with your super squishy sand slime!

 

Sand Sensory Play

For more resources, printables, and activities related to the ocean and its inhabitants, please visit our Oceans Activities page and my Under the Sea Pinterest board.

 

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