How To Make Foam Slime

My kids have gone bonkers over making slime lately. We have purchased slime several kits but now we decided to make our own slime without a kit.  Since we have made slime in several colors and slime with glitter, beads, etc. it was time to move up a notch and make something different. Foam slime!  This is great for all ages (if you have little kiddos I suggest that you help). Yay, I found a family activity that my 15-year-old son jumped on board with! 

Most of the ingredients we already had available and if we did not have them I ordered them on-line so we did not have to leave the house during this time. 

 

Supplies to make foam slime

A large mixing bowl 
A spatula or a fork
1/2 cup of Elmer’s Glue
2 1/2 cups of shaving cream (not gel)
2 1/2 TB of contact saline solution (Make sure it has boric acid because if it does not then it will not work)
Food coloring

 

• First I gathered all the supplies to make this craft. I also gathered a few large used yogurt containers that I keep after my kids are done with their yogurt (I had a container for each kid, you will see why as you read on). 
• Next measure the glue out and pour it into the mixing bowl. 
• Then add a few drops of the food coloring into the glue. My kids all wanted different colors but that was not going to happen so I initially added a few drops of 1 color. 
• After the food coloring was added I mixed the two together.  Measure out the shaving cream and add it to the glue mixture and mix.
• Next, add the contact lens solution little at a time. Continue to mix it all together until it no longer sticks to the bowl.
• Once it is all mixed together then I separated it evenly into the yogurt containers for my kids. I placed the foam slime in their own containers where they could add more food coloring so that they could have the color they wanted.
• Finally, the foam slime can be taken out of the container and kneaded by hand. The more it is played with the less slimy it will be.

 

I found playing with it addicting! When the kids were done playing with it they were able to have their own container with a lid. It lasted for approximately a month and then it lost it’s foaminess. There are so many slime recipes, what recipe is your favorite to make with your kids? 

 

Be sure to check out a few of my other fun gooey recipes my kids and I made:

Easy Slime

Glitter Play-doh

Peppermint Play-doh

 

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