Make Winter Slime

Slime can get messy! Cover your workspace with parchment paper, paper bags or butcher paper. You can use tape to hold the cover in place.

Pour half a cup of white school glue into one bowl.

Pour a teaspoon of liquid starch into the same bowl.

Mix the glue and liquid starch together using a popsicle stick or spoon until it starts to become stickier. As your child is mixing, ask them, “Do you notice anything changing?”

Add more liquid starch, teaspoon by teaspoon, until it starts to form into a blob. You can ask, “What do you think will happen if we add more liquid starch?” or “How much liquid starch will it take to make a sticky ball of slime?” You can also knead the mixture to help the process along. Ask your child to describe how it feels. Let your child decide whether they want to sprinkle in the snowflake glitter now or wait until they make their second slime.

Roll the mixture into a blob and then set aside.

Clean your bowl or get a second bowl to make your next color.

Repeat steps 3 through 6 with your red glue. We recommend using a glue with a slightly different formula than your school glue, like red specialty glue, so the colors won’t blend together as easily in the next steps.

If you didn’t use your snowflake glitter before, let your child choose which color they’d like to sprinkle the glitter over first. Your child can even pick whether to put the glitter on just one slime blob or both slime blobs. Add a teaspoon at a time until your child is happy with the amount.

Shape both blobs into log shapes and put them next to each other. Try to make them as close to the same length as possible.

Now here comes the fun part — get ready to twist! Carefully, wrap the red slime log around the white slime log. Your child may want your help with this step. Make your slime look even more like a peppermint candy by curling it around itself in a circle similar to a snail’s shell or cinnamon bun. Ask your child about their winter slime. For example, you can say, “How does it feel?” “Can you still see the glitter?” “What color do red and white make?” With enough handling, your child may see their two-color slime become one color — pink!