Glitter Slime Fail (Sensory Win!)

 

Please note that I’m notoriously bad at making homemade doughs for play – just check what happened when I tried to make Bubble Dough! Even with regular play dough {that I now make successfully all the time}, I had to overcome some hurdles as explained in this post.

That doesn’t stop me from trying something new every once in a while. When I saw Fun at Home with Kids’ Golden Glitter Slime, it was time to give it another try. Once more, it didn’t work out as expected but E turned the glitter slime fail into a sensory win!

 

(E was 32 months old.)

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 We used

• Liquid starch.
• Elmer’s School Glue. {This glue is white, and likely the cause of the glitter slime fail.}
• Elmer’s Classic Glitter Glue.

 

 

Note: Given the materials, I wouldn’t recommend trying this with any child likely to want to have a taste. 

 

 

I measured the liquid starch, and E poured it into the bowl.

 

 

then added the two kinds of glue. The glitter glue was a bit hard to squeeze for her, so I removed the cap.

 

 

She switched between both kinds of glue and ended up dropping the white glue bottle into the mix.

 

 

Once all the glue had joined the starch in the bowl, I reached in to see how the slime was coming along

 

 

and E took the clue right away. She had great fun handling the not-quite-slime.

She lifted it

 

 

and dropped it back into the bowl.

 

 

She held it up to see the stringy mess

 

 

and had me hold out my hand to place it on my palm.

 

 

She tried to pull it apart

 

 

and squeezed it between her fingers.

 

 

The materials sort of combined, even if it wasn’t the way I’d expected.

 

 

E enjoyed hanging the strings over her arm

 

 

and wrapping them around her wrist.

 

 

When E was done, this was left in the bowl:

 

           

Not exactly slime but E still had lots of sensory fun with this apparent FAIL! It stopped being sticky almost immediately, and it actually felt quite soft and, well, slimy!

 

 

Why did this go “wrong”? I think it must be the white glue. In the original recipe, clear glue was used, and I’m sure it has slightly different properties apart from being a different color.

 

 

Update: We were able to reuse this sensory material for another activity – Invitation to Play with Slime. Click to check it out!

 

 

Additional suggestions: 

• No matter if your slime works out or not, in the colors above, it would make a great backdrop for Arctic or Antarctic small world play.
• Use different colors {you can use liquid watercolors and/or different colors of glitter} for different uses, like the golden glitter dragon lair in the original post.

 

Have you tried making slime? Has it worked out for you? What did you use it for? Leave a comment!

 

 

 

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