How to Make Slime with Glue and Borax
It seems simple, right? My daughter is obsessed with slime. Seriously, how much money can we spend on this? So, this weekend, thanks to google and some leftover bottles of glue, we have been playing with glue all weekend long. Here is a tutorial video on how to make slime with my daughter at our house. You are so very welcome!
How to Make Easy Slime Recipe with Glue
There are many recipes on the internet. This is my daughter’s go-to recipe when she is making slime. This is the slime recipe with borax. It seems to be the best and longest-lasting. Add-ins can also be added to this slime recipe like foam beads or glitter if you let glitter in the house.
Borax Slime Recipe Brought to you by Maddie
If you want to print this Borax slime instructional, the directions you can print the recipe below. Maddie shows you the step by step how to make this it and what it should look like at each phase in the video. We were lost the first few times we made it, so hopefully this will help you be successful and confident in making slime.
Lots of food coloring options, so be sure to have lots of colors. You don’t want your kids to get bored with just four colors of slime!
The key to this whole process is making sure you have glue, borax and food coloring unless you can convince your kid to have white slime. You can see all the supplies you need in my storefront.
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How to Make Slime with Glue and Borax
Ingredients
- 1-4 ounce bottle of school glue 1/2 cup
- 1 1/2 cup water divided
- 1 teaspoon Borax
- Food coloring optional
Instructions
- In one bowl combine glue and 1/2 cup of the water. Stir to combine. Add food coloring if desired to have slime other color than white.
- In another larger bowl combine 1 teaspoon of Borax with 1 cup of water. Dissolve borax.
- Slowly pour glue and water mixture into Borax water. Whisking to combine.
- Pour any excess water off being sure to not let slime glob run out.
- Knead with hands to finish combining.
- The slime gets smoother with time as the ingredients combine together.
- Store in sealed container.
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Looks cool
Hello, I attempted making slime with 3 different bottles of glues!! I feel defeated. One time my slime was too runny, the 2nd time my slime wasn’t so tough that it felt like plastic and I felt pulled its break off.. the 3rd time again it just felt rubbery it wasn’t able to stretched at all. Please help
Try adding the borax to the glue slowly. DO NOT piur the glue into the borax solution, as this can over activate it.
Same here. I’ll have my children try again. I felt like such a failure because they were so excited and it just wouldn’t do right that they lost interest and little faces were drooped.
Her recipe calls for 14 oz bottle of glue.. 14 oz is not 1/2 a cup.. it was a confusing recipe if you don’t pay attention
It very clearly says 1 4 oz bottle (as in one 4 ounce bottle)…
I read it as 14 ounces as well. It wasnโt very clear.
It did not call for 14 oz of glue it called for 1 four oz bottle of glue.
Hmmmm no that would be 1. 4oz bottle of glue, NOT 14 ozs of glue.
I no longer have little kids, so it’a been DECADES since I’ve thought about making slime. This leaves me unable to fill in this blank: exactly WHAT is school glue? It seems obvious that you’re dancing around some brand name or copyright issue. Please, just tell us.
Borax is toxic…use cornstarch instead!
It didnโt work. The slime came out more like a large chunky bouncy ball… Big waste of my money…
This is the best slime recipe Iโve ever used!!!!
Worked perfectly. Only difference I made was using HOT water to mix glue and dissolve borax. My daughter says it’s perfect.
Worked perfectly! I used hot water to dissolve the borax which really made the process quick and easy. My grandkids love this stuff! ๐
Worked great. My son loves it. Just do it ask the video says. And you’ll be successful with the slime. Made a great orange color. With the mix of the red and yellow.
Slime is AMAZING!
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stick to the recept and it is great