slime

Any excuse is a good excuse to make slime (according to my girls anyway!). With the leaves changing, I guess it’s time for Hallowe’en Slime! The thing that makes this particular slime so simple is the glitter glue. You don’t have to mess with food colouring or paint or glitter because the glitter and colours are already in the glue. Super easy!

Simple Hallowe’en Slime Recipe:

• 6 oz. bottle of Elmer’s black glitter glue
• 6 oz. bottle of Elmer’s orange glitter glue
• about 3/4 cup liquid starch

In one bowl, slowly mix the black glitter glue with about half of the liquid starch. Add 1 Tbsp. at a time and continue to mix. You’ll know you have the right amount of liquid starch when the mixture starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl and form a clump. Take out the mixture and knead by hand about five minutes, pulling, stretching, and pushing it until slime consistency is formed and it’s no longer sticking to your hands.

In another bowl, repeat the exact same process using the orange glitter glue.

Once both mixtures are slime-like, you can make alternate strips of each colour to create a really cool look.

Please be aware that once you start to play with the colours together, they will mix and a black slime with orange and black glitter will form.

This slime will also look like it fits in with the season as the orange will still be visible in the glitter.

Homemade slime tip: When I make slime, I like to use wide craft sticks rather than spoons when I stir. That way, I don’t have to wash glue off the spoons later!

This Hallowe’en slime recipe is fun to play with and would make such cute favours to hand out at a party or at the door to little Trick or Treaters. You can buy small plastic containers with lids to hand this slime out in.

If you’re using it for play at home or at school, store it in an airtight plastic or glass container or resealable plastic bag.

Check out some of our other Hallowe’en slime ideas:

Creepy Spider Web Slime Hallowe’en Sensory Game with Slime

This Hallowe’en sensory game is so much fun! It combines a very popular sensory material with learning and fun. This game engages the visual, tactile, and proprioceptive sensory systems. 

I remember when I was about eight years old. The neighbourhood moms put together a Hallowe’en party for all the kids. One of the activities was us having to reach our hands into things and guess what was inside.

It was things like cooked spaghetti (brains) or jello (guts). I still remember the feeling of the squishy spaghetti noodles slipping between my fingers. Yuck!

This sensory game is a bit of a play on that idea. It uses one of the most popular sensory materials out there, slime.

How to Play the Hallowe’en Sensory Game:

In order to set this game up, you’ll need to first make one or several recipes of fluffy slime. There is a recipe listed below. The reason that you want to use fluffy slime for this is that it sticks to hands less than other slime does.

Take a medium sized bowl or plastic container and put a layer of slime inside. Add in some small Hallowe’en trinkets and toys. Put another layer of slime and another layer of small toys. Top with more slime to cover the toys. Ideas of toys to use:

• plastic fangs
• plastic googly eye rings
• toy mice
• stretchy frogs or snakes
• plastic spiders
• Zombie fingers
• stretchy nose, ear, etc.
• Hallowe’en erasers
• eyeball bouncy balls
• glow in the dark plastic bugs

For older kids, you can pick gory type toys like the Zombie fingers in a black slime for maximum fun factor. For younger kids, brighter coloured slime and cute little toys are best.

There are two ways to play. Of course, if you can’t decide which to try, you can always play both versions!

1. Have each child reach in and retrieve an item. You can let them keep their item as a prize.
2. Have each child reach into the container and try to guess (without looking at the item) what the item is only using their sense of touch (tactile).

Fluffy Slime Recipe:

• 16 oz. Elmer’s washable white school glue
• 3 cups of shaving cream
• food colouring or acrylic paint
• 1 cup liquid starch

In a large bowl, mix together the glue and shaving cream. Add some food colouring or paint in the colour you want to create. With fluffy slime, because of the shaving cream, you’ll have to use more colouring than you do with regular slime to get the same colours.

Once the glue, shaving cream, and colour are well mixed, slowly begin to add in the liquid starch. Continue to stir and add the starch in until the mixture begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl and form a clump.

At this point, remove it from the bowl with your hands. Knead it until it has reached the consistency of slime. It is now ready to be used to set up the Hallowe’en game.

You can use all one colour of slime or make several colours and combine them or layer them. You can use Hallowe’en colours like black and orange or green and purple. Any colour will work though. It just looks more Hallowe’en-y if the colours fit. I hope you enjoy our little Hallowe’en sensory game. It would be fun for the classroom, home, or for a Hallowe’en party.

Check out these other Hallowe’en Sensory Activities:

Eyeball Sensory Bin 

Monsters Sensory Bin

Whether you are new to the slime craze train or barreling full speed ahead down the tracks, you’ll love this simple rainbow confetti party slime. 

My kids are fully on board the slime train, so we have had the chance to make many types. By adding a small twist to each type, they never seem to get bored of it.

As with all slime recipes, supervise younger children, wash hands and surfaces that come into contact with the slime after playing, and avoid contact with clothing and hair.

Trust me on this one: slime and hair are a nasty combination!

Although I experiment with different types of slime, I prefer glue based slimes as they seem to have the best success rates. The type of glue you use matters, so rather than experiment, I suggest you use Elmer’s Washable School Glue. It’s tried and true.

There are many times when I suggest buying items from the dollar store or using a no-name brand, but this is not one of those times. If your kids are fully hooked on making slime, I suggest buying it by the gallon!

Rainbow Confetti Party Slime Recipe:

• 1/2 cup Elmer’s white glue
• 1/2 cup water
• Wilton Color Right liquid (black)
• 1/4 cup liquid starch
• rainbow sprinkles

Adult supervision is recommended for making the slime as it does involve a chemical reaction. I like to use the wide popsicle sticks (also called craft sticks) for mixing because I can throw them away afterwards. Spoons work as well of course, but I find the glue a bit finicky to get off after.

1. In a bowl, mix 1/2 cup of water with 1/2 cup of glue.
2. Mix in the liquid color.*
3. Pour in the liquid starch.
4. Stir. Keep stirring until the liquid is gone and a glob of slime forms.
5. Knead the slime. It will be stringy and goopy in the beginning, but will quickly become more and more the consistency of slime.
6. Set the slime down and allow it to flatten out.
7. Sprinkle with the confetti sprinkles and let it sit 20 seconds or so.
8. Pick the slime up from underneath.

Elmer’s Liquid School Glue, Washable, 1 GallonRainbow SprinklesWilton Color Right Food Color BlackSta-Flo Liquid Starch

*Gel based food dyes are hard to mix into slimes and even harder to create a uniform colour with. I use a liquid based food dye for this reason.

Note that as the slime is played with, the sprinkles will mix in and lose their coloring, but that’s all part of the fun. Once they are dissolved, it will look like a completely new slime! Slime is great for sensory play. This particular one would be fun to make at a birthday party. Each of the kids could take home their slime in a small plastic container as a party favour.

For awesome slime recipes at your fingertips, check out The Slime Book – From Edible Slime to Glow-in-the-Dark Slime – it’s got it all! 

Check out these other slime recipes: 

Crunchy Slime With Mardi Gras Beads

Holiday Jingle Bell Slime