My daughter is obsessed with slime! Since the moment we made our first batch, she was hooked! So it is no surprise that since Halloween is quickly approaching in October, she would want to make a halloween slime recipe! This is such a quick slime recipe for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. Let me show you how to make halloween slime!
halloween slime recipe
Halloween is right around the corner, and what better way to celebrate the spooky season than with a fun and easy Halloween slime recipe that kids of all ages will love? This quick slime recipe is perfect for getting into the festive spirit while also providing a great DIY activity that encourages creativity.
After making the slime, you can take it a step further by adding in those extra spooky elements. Mixing in glitter can give your slime a magical shine, or add some plastic spiders for a frightful surprise. Let the kids get creative and customize their slime to reflect their Halloween spirit!
We’ve tried this recipe with white glue, clear glue, glow in the dark glue…it does not discriminate! No matter what type of glue you use it will work out great!
halloween slime
For a basic slime, here is what we did:
Add glue to a bowl. I prefer using throw away bowls so that we don’t have to clean excess slime out of all of my bowls, but that is totally up to you.
Add in 2 TBS of baking soda. Mix well.
If you are adding any extras, do that at this point. Stir in. (We’ll talk about extras in a little bit)
Next squirt in contact solution. I did two big squirts. I know that isn’t exact science, but I don’t think slime is exact science.
Mix this in. You should start seeing the mixture turn into a ball. Like mixing flour into bread dough or cookie dough. Once it forms a ball, take it out of the bowl and mix with your hands. We knead it, stretch it, ball it up, spread it out..whatever you need to do to mix it up.
HINT: If it is too sticky, add a couple drops of contact solution. Not too much because it can quickly become too hard and not stretchy anymore. This is not what you want! Another tip: Be Patient! Kneading, mixing and stretching can help make it unsticky. Adding too much extra contact solution will be detrimental to your slime!
how do you make halloween slime
For this Halloween Slime we chose to use clear glue. You could add orange food coloring along with the glue, before the baking soda, but we decided to go with clear. Why? Because we had really fun Halloween confetti we found at the dollar store. So to make this, we added the confetti along with the glue into the bowl. You can give it a quick stir and continue on with baking soda and other steps.
easy halloween slime
How cute is this? It’s a simple, not a Halloween in your face, slime, but it’s a fun slime!
Deanna Hershberger is a work at home mom, coffee obsessed, a diy addict and a Netflix binger. She spends her days playing and making with her daughter and enjoys quiet nights at home with her husband. She shares all of this on her blog Play Dough & Popsicles.
