Celebrate the New Year with slime? Around here that’s absolutely what we do! I love planning fun ideas for New Years Eve and it usually involves a lot of confetti. Celebrate New Years Eve with kids with a batch of this gorgeous New Year slime to ring in the New Year!

CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR WITH FUN PARTY SLIME

Celebrate with an easy to make New Years Eve slime recipe perfect for kids New Years Eve party activities!Pin

NEW YEARS PARTY IDEAS

We make New Years Eve a big deal around here though I don’t think I have stayed awake the whole night to midnight. I can guarantee my son can. He will end up tucking me into bed and watching the ball drop with my husband.

Check out all our New Years Eve activities for kids!

We loved our sparkling glitter slime for New Years, and thought we would make another easy party celebration slime. Slime making is even more fun when you add in creative themes like a celebration or party theme. Our homemade New Year slime is yet another AMAZING slime recipe we can show you how to make!

MORE FUN PARTY SLIME IDEAS

We made this New Year slime with clear glue, glitter and confetti bursts. Here are a few more fun and easy New Years Eve slime ideas to try too!

  • Metallic Slime: Check out how to make glittering gold and silver slime for a sparkling effect.
  • Confetti Slime: Choose from a wide variety of New Years theme confetti to add to your slime!
  • Gold Leaf Slime: Add gold or colored craft foil sheets to a clear slime for a cool look on New Years Eve!
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NEW YEARS EVE SLIME SCIENCE

We always like to include a bit of homemade slime science around here, and that’s perfect for exploring Chemistry with a fun winter theme. Slime is an excellent chemistry demonstration and kids love it too! Mixtures, substances, polymers, cross linking, states of matter, elasticity, and viscosity are just a few of the science concepts that can be explored with homemade slime!

What’s the science behind the slime? The borate ions in the slime activators  (sodium borate, borax powder, or boric acid) mix with the PVA (polyvinyl-acetate) glue and forms this cool stretchy substance. This is called cross linking!

The glue is a polymer and is made up of long, repeating, and identical strands or molecules. These molecules with flow past one another keeping the glue in a liquid state. Until…

SLIME IS A NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID

When you add the borate ions to the mixture, it starts to connect these long strands together. They begin to tangle and mix until the substance is less like the liquid you started with and thicker and rubberier like slime! Slime is a polymer.

Picture the difference between wet spaghetti and leftover spaghetti the next day. As the slime forms the tangled molecule strands are much like the clump of spaghetti!

Is slime a liquid or solid? We call it a Non-newtonian fluid because it’s a little bit of both! Experiment with making the slime more or less viscous with varying amounts of foam beads. Can you change the density?

Read more about slime science here!

Printable New Year Project Pack

What’s Included: All Instructions and templates for a fantastic New Years Eve!

  • New Year Fizzy Science
  • New Year STEM Challenge
  • New Year 3D Ball Art Project
  • New Year DIY Poppers
  • Pop-Up Ball Card
  • Handprint Art Project
  • Year in Review
  • Dice Game
  • Bingo, Coloring Pages, Bookmarks, and More!
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NEW YEAR SLIME RECIPE

This fun celebration slime calls for one batch of our easy borax slime recipe. You can make more or less depending on your ideas! You can also use our saline solution recipe!

SUPPLIES:

  • 1/4 tsp Borax Powder {found in laundry detergent aisle}.
  • 1/2 cup Elmer’s Clear  Washable PVA School Glue
  • 1 cup of Water divided into 1/2 cups
  • Glitter, Confetti, Food Coloring (optional)
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HOW TO MAKE NEW YEAR SLIME

STEP 1. Add your glue and water to a bowl and grab a mixing utensil. 

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STEP 2. Mix in food coloring, glitter, and confetti as desired. Add the sparkle and shine with glitter and confetti.

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STEP 3. Mix 1/4 tsp of borax powder into a 1/2 of warm water to make your slime activator solution.

Borax powder mixed with hot water is the slime activator that creates the rubbery, slimy texture you can’t wait to play with! It’s super easy to whip up this homemade slime recipe once you get the hang of it.

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STEP 4. Pour the borax/water solution into the glue and water mixture and stir well. You will see it come together right away. It will seem stringy and clumpy, but that’s ok!

Remove your slime from the bowl and spend a few minutes kneading the mixture together. Discard any left over borax solution.

TOO STICKY? If your slime still feels too sticky, you may need a few more drops of borax solution. You can always add but you can’t take away. The more activator solution you add, the stiffer the slime will become over time. Make sure to spend extra time kneading the slime instead!

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STORING YOUR PARTY SLIME

Slime lasts quite a while! I get a lot of questions regarding how I store my slime. We use reusable containers in either plastic or glass. Make sure to keep your slime clean and it will last for several weeks.

If you want to send kids home with a bit of slime from a New Years Eve party, or classroom project, I would suggest packages of reusable containers from the dollar store or grocery store or even Amazon. For large groups we have used condiment containers.

MAKE FUN NEW YEARS EVE SLIME TO CELEBRATE!

Check out more awesome New Years Activity ideas! Click on the pictures for more information.

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