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St. Patrick’s Day Fluffy Slime

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Fluffy slime has such a great texture and stretch. Bring sensory play to your home or classroom in March with this green St. Patrick’s Day fluffy slime.

child's hands stretching green goo. Text reads "St. Patrick's Day Fluffy Slime"You can set out a Shamrock cookie cutter and some extra Shamrock play coins to expand the opportunities for kids to explore through play. Check out the video below to see the fluffy slime play in action.

St. Patrick’s Day Fluffy Slime Recipe:

Ingredients:

Directions:
  1. Add glue to a bowl.
  2. Mix in water and baking soda.
  3. Add shaving cream and mix.
  4. Stir in food colour.
  5. Slowly add contact solution. Mix.
  6. Add the glitter.
  7. Knead.
  8. If it’s still too sticky, add a drop more of contact solution and knead some more.
  9. Drop in a few shamrock play coins and fold them in.

Fluffy Slime Troubleshooting Tips:

You’ll need to use contact solution as the activator to create the right texture for your slime. Otherwise, the glue and shaving cream will just be a big blob of goo.

If your slime isn’t fluffy enough, try to fold in some extra shaving cream.

If the slime isn’t stretchy after a few days of playing with it, you can add a bit of hot tap water or a small amount of lotion to it.

Or if the slime is too sticky, add a drop or two more contact solution or a small bit of baby oil and knead.

These troubleshooting tips should help you to get the right consistency with your slime.Looking for more easy sensory play recipes to inspire creativity? Join us for a five day email series on Sensory Activities and Solutions and get a free sample of our Sensory Play Recipes eBook.

Here are some other St. Patrick’s Day activity ideas:

St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bottle

Easy St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bag

St. Patrick’s Day Fun Breakfast

Valentine’s Day Fluffy Slime

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If you’re looking for an easy sensory play activity for February, you’re in luck. This Valentine’s Day Fluffy Slime recipe is simple to make and provides hours of fun. puffy pink slime with red hearts. Text reads "Valentine's Day Fluffy Slime"

What is fluffy slime?

I seem to go in phases when it comes to slime. I’m currently in a bit of a fluffy slime craze. Fluffy slime is just basically regular slime with shaving cream added. I like the texture and the stretch of it. If you like your slime fluffier, you can simply add more shaving cream.

Valentine’s Day Fluffy Slime:

Ingredients:

Directions:
  1. Add glue to a bowl.
  2. Mix in water and baking soda.
  3. Add shaving cream and mix.
  4. Stir in food colour.
  5. Slowly add contact solution. Mix.
  6. Knead.
  7. If it’s still too sticky, add a drop more of contact solution and knead some more.

Fluffy Slime Troubleshooting Tips:

You’ll need to use contact solution as the activator to create your slime. Otherwise, the glue and shaving cream will just be a blob of goo.

If your slime isn’t fluffy enough, fold in some additional shaving cream. When the slime isn’t stretchy after a few days of play, you can add a bit of hot tap water or a small amount of lotion.

If the slime is too sticky, add a drop or two more contact solution or a small bit of baby oil and knead.

Looking for more easy sensory play recipes to inspire creativity? Join us for a five day email series on Sensory Activities and Solutions and get a free sample of our Sensory Play Recipes eBook.

You might also be interested in these other Valentine’s activities:

Valentine’s Emotion Game for Kids

Valentine’s Pluffle Sensory Bin

Valentine’s Day Sensory Bottle

Valentine’s Day Slime

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Create this Valentine’s Day Slime for your friends, child, or classroom. It’s super stretchy. This contact solution recipe is an easy one to master. little hands stretch out slime with hearts. Text reads "Valentine's Day Slime"If you’re looking for a homemade Valentine’s gift, this slime recipe and/or our Valentine’s Fluffy Slime recipe can be put in a small container or resealable bag.

Valentine’s Day Slime:

Supplies needed:

  • 1 cup Elmer’s Clear School glue
  • 2-3 Tbsp. contact lens saline solution
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • unicorn glitter
  • heart confetti
  • small plastic hearts
  • optional: heart shaped cookie cutters and plastic heart containers for extended play

Directions:

  1. Pour the glue into a large mixing bowl and stir the baking soda into it.
  2. Begin to add the contact lens solution a few drops at a time as you stir.
  3. When you find that the mixture begins to pull away from the bowl, it’s time to begin kneading.
  4. Add the glitter, hearts, and confetti. Continue kneading.
  5. If the slime is still too sticky to play with, add one or two more drops of contact solution and knead.

Sensory and Learning Opportunities:

Set out heart shaped cookies cutters, additional plastic hearts, and plastic heart containers to allow your child the chance to engage in imaginative sensory play. You can also set up a sensory station in your classroom with this as one of the activities.

The visual, tactile, and proprioceptive sensory systems are involved during slime play.

Looking for more great sensory play recipes to inspire imagination? Join us for a five day email series on Sensory Activities and Solutions and get a free sample of our Sensory Play Recipes eBook.

Find other sensory play opportunities for February:

Valentine’s Day Fluffy Slime

Chocolate and Strawberry Playdough Station

Scented Valentine’s Sensory Bin

Stretchy Butterfly Slime

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This easy butterfly slime is just a clear slime recipe using contact lens solution as the base with some added pizzazz. It is a nice sensory play recipe for Spring or for when you wish Spring would come soon. stretched out clear slime with specks and multicoloured butterflies with text that reads "Glittery Butterfly Slime"As I type this, it is -40° outside when I live up in Canada. Yes, that’s -40° in both Fahrenheit and Celsius! Now this temperature is cold even for us seasoned Canadians so this is exactly the kind of day that has me dreaming of Spring. I’ve been thinking about flowers and butterflies and green grass as I stay bundled inside and look out at the snow.

You can use this slime just for play or in a unit on Spring or butterflies. If using it as part of a unit, you can also create a Butterfly Sensory Bin and Butterfly Sensory Bag.

Butterfly Slime Recipe:

Supplies needed:

Directions:

  1. Pour the glue into a large mixing bowl and stir the baking soda into it.
  2. Begin to add the contact lens solution a few drops at a time as you stir.
  3. When you find that the mixture begins to pull away from the bowl, it’s time to begin kneading.
  4. Add the glitter and confetti. Continue kneading.
  5. If the slime is still too sticky to play with, add one or two more drops of contact solution and knead.

You can set out some butterfly toys and silk flowers alongside the slime to encourage imaginative play.

This slime provides visual, tactile, and proprioceptive sensory feedback. Kids who help with the kneading when making the recipe will get more proprioceptive input.

Looking for more easy sensory play recipes to inspire creativity? Join us for a free five day email series on Sensory Activities and Solutions and get a free of our Sensory Play Recipes eBook.

Check out these other Spring sensory activities for kids:

Butterfly Sensory BinButterfly Sensory Bag

Spring Sensory Bottle

Christmas Nativity Slime

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Leave it to kids to create the best ideas! While I thought of the nativity slime on my own, it was the imagination of one of the kids that came up with the concept of creating a manger with the slime. The results? Wow!a tiny nativity scene sits inside a manger made out of slime on top of a child's hand with text that reads "Nativity Slime”

I love how this activity allows kids to use their imaginations and interact with the Christmas story. It has the added bonus of providing a calming effect!

You can see that in the video below that this slime has just the right amount of stretch and so many play possibilities.

Nativity Slime Recipe:

  1. Pour the glue into a large mixing bowl and add the baking soda.
  2. Begin to add the contact lens solution a few drops at a time as you stir.
  3. When you find that the mixture begins to pull away from the bowl, knead by hand.
  4. Add the glitter. Knead.
  5. Add the nativity figures and and fold them in.
  6. Continue kneading.
  7. The slime is now ready for play.

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Slime Troubleshooting Tips:

If the slime is too sticky, you can try these tips:

  • knead the slime for longer
  • add a drop or two of baby oil
  • or put in a drop or two more of the contact solution

If the slime is too runny, you can try this:

  • mix in a bit more glue

If the slime has lost its stretch:

  • soak in hot water
  • or add a small dollop of lotion

Sensory and Learning Opportunities for the Nativity Slime:

Slime allows children (or adults) to engage their visual, tactile, and proprioceptive sensory systems. Because of the way that it engages the proprioceptive system, playing with the slime can have a calming effect.

Kids can use their imaginations to move the nativity figures through the slime or on top of the slime. If they want to, they can even make a complete manger scene with the slime and nestle the baby Jesus inside. Have your child hold and squish and pull their slime while you are reading them the Christmas Story. Allowing them to engage in sensory play will actually help them be more attentive to the story and the figures in the slime will help reenforce the story and improve their memory.

You’re also going to love:

Nativity Sensory Bottle

O Holy Night Sensory Bin

Santa Slime Christmas Gift Idea

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This Santa Slime makes such a cute DIY Christmas gift for kids to make to give their friends, cousins, or siblings. It’s a fun holiday crafting project to put together.jar with a Santa belt filled with red glitter slime with a tiny homemade Santa hat in the background with text that reads "Santa Slime DIY Gift Idea"

Santa Slime:

Supplies needed:

*If you can’t find red glitter glue, you can instead use clear glue and add a lot of red glitter.

For decorating the jar, you will also need:

  • 1 sheet of red felt
  • large silver slide buckle (used: Sew-ology at Hobby Lobby)
  • black ribbon (to fit the buckle)
  • white 1 inch pompoms
  • glue stick or hot glue

Slime directions:

  1. Empty the red glitter glue into a large bowl.
  2. Fill the empty glue bottle with 1/2 cup warm water and seal with the lid. Give it a few shakes to combine the remaining glue with the water. Pour into the bowl with glue and stir well to combine.
  3. Add the baking soda to the glue and stir to mix thoroughly.
  4. Squirt the contact lens solution into the glue mixture and stir well. (Note that regular glue will require less contact lens solution than glitter glue. Add the contact lens solution slowly, mixing between additions, and add only enough to bring the glue together into a soft ball.)
  5. Remove the slime from the bowl allowing any excess liquid to remain in the bowl. At this point, the Santa slime will be sticky. Start to play with the slime, kneading it as you would bread dough to bring the slime together. The slime is ready to use when it’s no longer sticky.
  6. When it’s not being played with, store the slime in an airtight container in the fridge.

To decorate the Santa jar:

  1. Trace the circumference of the jar lid on a piece of red felt. Cut it out. Glue it to the top of the lid.
  2. Trace around the outside of a 28 oz. can onto the felt. Cut that circle out and cut into two equal halves. Discard one half (unless you’re making two of these) and twist the other into a cone to form the Santa hat. Secure it with glue. Attach the hat to the lid with glue. Allow it to dry completely before attaching the pompoms.
  3. Glue the pompoms around the edge of the lid and one at the top of the hat. Allow the glue to dry.
  4. Measure the ribbon around the jar, leaving room for it to overlap slightly. Cut the ribbon there.
  5. Add the buckle to the ribbon and then glue the buckle and the ribbon to the jar. If you want the back of thee belt to line up with the back seam of the hat, put the lid on the jar prior to adding the belt.

Are you looking for other sensory play recipes for kids? Join us for a free five day email series on Sensory Activities and Solutions and get a sample of our Sensory Play Recipes eBook.

If you’re looking for other Christmas slime ideas, check out:

Holiday Scented Christmas Tree Slime

Stretchy Christmas Slime

Holiday Jingle Bells Slimemaking holiday slime