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June 21, 2023
Ocean Slime Recipe – FUN Ocean Activity for Kids

Ocean Slime Recipe – FUN Ocean Activity for Kids

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Kids of all ages will love playing with this new ocean slime. Not only does this ocean slime recipe have a wonderful texture and mesmerizing color, but this ocean activity for kidswill lead to hours and hours of creative play. Add this under the sea slime to your next ocean unit for some engaging play with ocean animals with your toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd graders, and more!  These ocean activities for preschoolers is a MUST try.

Kids of all ages will love playing with this new ocean slime. Not only does this ocean slime recipe have a wonderful texture and mesmerizing color, but this ocean activity for kidswill lead to hours and hours of creative play. Add this under the sea slime to your next ocean unit for some engaging play with ocean animals with your toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd graders, and more!  These ocean activities for preschoolers is a MUST try.

Ocean Slime

Kids love playing with slime! It has such a fun, unique, and weird texture kids just love to get their hands into  and explore. The calming blue color will mesmerize your toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 students as they explore the ocean for kids. Whether you try this ocean activity for kids as part of summer activities, an ocean theme, learning about ocean animals, or just the newest slime recipe – you will love this fun ocean slime. The ocean slime reipe is quick and easy to whip up leaving more time for this ocean activities for preschoolers! Kids will love adding ocean animals, sea shells and more to their creative ocean play.

easy slime recipe for kids

Ocean Slime Recipe

For this fun and simple slime recipe for kids you will need a few simple slime ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup Elmer’s Clear Craft Glue
  • 1/2 teaspoon Borax laundry detergent
  • 1 1/2 cups hot water
  • blue food coloring
  • blue glitter – optional
  • fish bowl – optional
  • ocean animals – optional
  • sea shells – optional

ocean play

How to Make Ocean Slime

In a large mixing bowl combine a 1/2 cup of clear glue with 1/2 cup of very hot water and mix well. Now mix a 1/2 teaspoon of borax into your remaining 1 cup of hot water and stir to dissolve borax powder completely; add in blue food coloring and glitter if you like. Mix the two bowls together and stir to form slime.  Use your hands  to contineu mixing to incorporate as much as the borax-water mixture as possible. Then pour out the excess water and you are ready to PLAY.  Store your slime in an airtight container until you are ready to use.
 
under the sea slime recipe

Under the Sea Slime

How you play is totally up to you and your kids. I love open ended play that lets kids explore their creativity! We use ocean animas, sea shells, sand, and a fish bowl when we play.
creative slime recipes

Ocean Activity for Kids

The texture of this slime recipe is perfectly slimey with an almost translucent color. The see through color is perfect for seeing ocean animals in a more realistic, but fun ocean activity for all ages. Kids will probabaly spend the first while just exploring the slime as it sheets, flows, squishes, etc.

ocean activity for kids

Ocean Activities

Now we like to add sea shells. It is fun to try various different shapes and sizes. You can burry them, make imprints, etc.

ocean activities for preschoolers

Slime Activity for Preschoolers

We add a wide assortment of ocean animals from sea stars, crabs, octopus, whales, fish, dolphins, sharks, and more!

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Ocean Activities for Preschoolers

My kids love adding sand for the layered look, but remember the sand will start to embed in the slime so although that is a sensation and fun on it’s own – the pretty blue slime look will not last once you add some fun beach sand to the equation.
ocean activity
Another option to get the layered look is to put the pretty blue slime in the bowl with your sea creatures while leaving the sand and sa shells under the bowl. This gives kids the best of both worlds.
 
No matter how you play, you will love this engaging ocean activity for preschool and elementary age students to explore the amazing world of ocean animals!

 

 

Kids of all ages will love playing with this new ocean slime. Not only does this ocean slime recipe have a wonderful texture and mesmerizing color, but this ocean activity for kidswill lead to hours and hours of creative play. Add this under the sea slime to your next ocean unit for some engaging play with ocean animals with your toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd graders, and more!  These ocean activities for preschoolers is a MUST try.

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Kids of all ages will love playing with this new ocean slime. Not only does this ocean slime recipe have a wonderful texture and mesmerizing color, but this ocean activity for kidswill lead to hours and hours of creative play. Add this under the sea slime to your next ocean unit for some engaging play with ocean animals with your toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd graders, and more!  These ocean activities for preschoolers is a MUST try.
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Ocean Unit - huge, 250+ page Ocean Animals Lesson will allow you to learn about the ocean and aquatic animals. There are 7 units to allow you to more closely examine the wide variety of aquatic animals on our planet - from whales to sea urchin. Use this fun science unit as a semester long science curriculum complete with easy to understand information, fun worksheets, video links, science experiments, cute clipart, printable crafts, report templates, creative writing prompts, and tests. Of if you prefer, add these engaging science activities as a supplement to your zoology / biology lessons, summer schooling, following your child's interest, creating a fascinating science center, or planning for next years homeschool science lesson - you are going to love this fun, interesting, and thorough lesson! This aquatic animals for kids unit has tons of options making it perfect for the whole family  - from kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, grade 7, and grade 8 - there is truly something for everyone!
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Dive into some fun math practice for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age kids with this Under the Sea Subtraction games! Solve the subtraction within 5 to advance around the the gameboard to play and learn. Simply print free subtraction game and you are ready to review with minimal prep!
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Learn about amazing, feared Sharks for kids with this free shark printables reader.  Children from preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students will love learning about these large creatures whose skin resembles sandpaper while reading through this reader, learning about a variety of different breeds of sharks. Use this for shark theme, ocean theme, or shark activity to learn more about these amazing ocean animals! Simply download pdf file with sharks worksheets to make into a shark book for kids to read, color, and learn all about sharks!
Are your kids fascinated by sea turtles? These large, graceful reptiles are truly amazing! Learn lots of facts about sea turtles for kids in these free printable sea turtle readers filled with lots of information, facts, and the Sea turtles life cycle. Download pdf file and print so children can color, read, and learn about the life cycle of a turtle. This is a great science printable for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students.
Dive under the set to learn all about fish! In this super cute fish printables preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders will learn fish facts for kids. In this fish for kids activity students will learn that fish are fertebrates, how fish breathe, the body temperature of a fish, about fish scales what fish eat, and so much more! Simply print the ocean printable activity created in the shape of a pond to read, color, and learn about fish.
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Are you looking for some fun ways to help encourage your children to write more? Do they love learning about whales - the massive creatures in the ocean? Then they will love these free printable Whale Writing Prompts.
These Under the Sea Word Searches are perfect for helping your children in preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade through fifth grade learn all about all things to do with under the sea animals, plants more, while working on their reading and writing skills as well as their fine motor skills.
Get ready to head under the sea with these super cute and free printable coloring sheets! We have lots of fish coloring pages for your toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, and first grade student to have fun decorating for your f is for fish letter of the week unit, ocean theme, fish theme, or as an aquatic animal activity sheet. These simple coloring pages include puffer fish, octopus, jellyfish, hermit crab, turtles, and so many more!

Ocean Activities

Looking for more ocean activities for kids? You will love these clever, free resources and ideas:

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Bring some beach fun home with this super simple, sand slime. This sand slime recipe is quick and easy to make for your beach theme or a summer activity for preschoolers.  Kids of all ages, from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students will LOVE this beach slime!
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Practice tracing lowercase alphabet letters with these super cute Alphabet Sandcastles.
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Beach Activities

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Kids of all ages will love playing with this new ocean slime. Not only does this ocean slime recipe have a wonderful texture and mesmerizing color, but this ocean activity for kidswill lead to hours and hours of creative play. Add this under the sea slime to your next ocean unit for some engaging play with ocean animals with your toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd graders, and more!  These ocean activities for preschoolers is a MUST try.
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Get ready to WOW your kids with this magnetic slime kids activity! This magnetic slime recipe allows children to not only have fun, but explore magnets and the magnetic field they create with an epic diy magnetic slime! This magnet activity is perfect magnet science experiment for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade students.
watermelon slime
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Kids will go nuts over this super cute red white and blue slime recipe for Independence Day! This fourth of July slime allows kids to stretch, sheen, drizzle, and wow over this fun-to-play-with slime as patriotic activities. This 4th of July slime is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too. Whether you have a whole 4th of July theme, party, or are just looking for clever 4th of July activities, you will LOVE this patriotic slime.
fluffy yellow apple slime
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If you are looking for apple activities, look no further than this fluffy green apple slime! This laffy taffy slime has such a fun pillow-like texture, smells amazing, and looks like a pale green granny smith apple. Use this apple slime has a fun fall activity for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too. This apple activities for preschoolers is not to be missed!
Celebrate fall with this pumpkin slime recipe perfect for October. All you need are a few simple supplies and I will show you how to make pumpkin slime! This halloween slime makes EPIC fun and halloween activities for kids from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too!
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This No Stick Gingerbread Slime Recipe is not only fun to play with, but it smells amazing too!  This easy Gingerbread Slime is perfect for strengthening and engaging little hands for some sensory play in December. Make a gingerbread man out of slime, stretch, mold, oooooz and have lots of fun with this Christmas activity for kids! We love this Gingerbread activities with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grade students!
Christmas Fluffy Slime - This easy slime recipe is so amazing! It is fun to play with, fluffy and is made with contact solution and shaving cream. This is one of the best Christmas activities for kids, family, and preschool. #slimerecipes #christmasslime #christmasactivity
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Get ready for a REALLY fun st patricks day activity with this gold slime! It is super quick and EASY to make this gold glitter slime that looks so cool as it oozes, stretches, and drips. Use this outrageously FUN st patrick's day activities for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students! But watch out or sneaky Leprechauns may try to steal your gold!
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Are your kids still as crazy about slime recipes as mine are? You HAVE to try this EASY cornstarch slime made from gummy worms! This gummy slime is perfect for an insect theme, bug theme, or halloween activity for kids! Your kids will love that this recipe makes edible slime that is fun to play and taste. Use this halloween slime and worm activity for kids from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders too.
Make your kids' love for Disney Frozen movies come to life with this easy-to-make frozen slime that guarantees hours of fun playing and can be used with various Frozen figures, making it a perfect interactive activity for kids of all ages!
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Slime Recipes

Looking for more fun-to-make easy slime recipes? You’ve got to try these slime recipes for kids:

Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables – www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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