Amazingly smooth Christmas butter slime will be a big hit this holiday season. Go ahead and twist your favorite colors into a slime candy cane! You can make butter slime quickly and easily with any one of our basic homemade slime recipes. Your Christmas slime making just got a whole lot more fun! Give any of our easy to make Christmas slimes a try!

SMOOTH CHRISTMAS BUTTER SLIME RECIPE

The kids will squishing and squeezing homemade butter slime! Our simple butter slime recipe is perfect for little hands and easily customizable to any season. holiday, or theme like our Christmas version with a candy cane twist. This is just one of our many Christmas slime ideas to try!

Slime making is even more fun when you add in creative Christmas themes. We have quite a few to share, and we are always adding more. Our Homemade Christmas Butter Slime Recipe is yet another AMAZING slime recipe we can show you how to make.

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SLIME SCIENCE AND CHEMISTRY

We always like to include a bit of homemade slime science around here, and that’s perfect for exploring Chemistry with a fun Candy Cane 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…

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?

EASY CHRISTMAS BUTTER SLIME IDEAS

We made this Christmas butter slime with white glue, food coloring, and soft clay. However, clear glue is super easy to use and also works well for this recipe, but your color will be slightly different!

Come up with your own favorite Christmas themes with butter slime:

Candy cane with red and white butter slime or your favorite candy cane colors
Santa with red and white butter slimes or a black butter slime for his belt
Rudolph with a brown butter slime, google eyes, a red nose, and some jingle bells
Christmas tree with green butter slime and fun decorations like buttons or sequins
Star with yellow butter slime and cookie cutters
Grinch slime with green butter slime and red butter slime with heart shape cookie cutters

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CHRISTMAS BUTTER SLIME TIPS

The base for this Christmas butter slime uses one of our most basic slime recipes which is white glue, water, baking soda, and saline solution.

Now if you don’t want to use saline solution, you can absolutely test out one of our other basic recipes using liquid starch or borax powder. We have tested all three recipes with equal success!

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CHRISTMAS BUTTER SLIME INGREDIENTS

As I mentioned above, you can use any of our basic slime recipes for our Candy Cane slime ideas, but we like our basic saline solution slime recipe with the Elmers clear washable school glue. I will link the products we used here with Amazon affiliate links below from which I receive a small commision.

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1/2 cup of Elmer’s White Glue per slime batch

1/2 tsp baking soda per slime batch

Food coloring

2 oz of soft modeling clay

1 tbsp of saline solution (see recommended slime supplies for brands) per slime batch

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CHRISTMAS BUTTER SLIME RECIPE DIRECTIONS BELOW

This fun Candy Cane slime activity calls for two batches of our easy Christmas butter slime. You can make more or less depending on your character ideas! In general, several kids can share one batch of this butter slime, but it will be harder to twist candy canes.

The best slime recipe starts with the right slime ingredients. Make sure to follow along with our measurements. Start by adding your glue and water to a bowl and grab a mixing utensil. Mix it up and add food coloring and glitter as desired!

Combine water, glue, and food coloring in a large bowl and mix well! Next add baking soda.

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Add in your slime activator (baking soda and saline solution) to complete the chemical reaction you read about above in the science behind the slime section. If you scrolled past it, go back and read it with your kids!

What does the baking soda do? It adds the firmness the mixture needs so you can pick it up. This ingredient is a great variable to tinker with for a science experiment!

You can also learn more about all our favorite slime activators here. Keep in mind that liquid starch, saline solution, and borax powder are all in the boron family. Neither of these ingredients are truly borax free.

We always recommend kneading your slime well after mixing. Kneading the slime really helps to improve it’s consistency. The trick with saline solution slime is to squirt a few drops of solution onto your hands before picking up the slime.

You can knead the slime in the bowl before you pick it up as well. This slime is stretchy but can be stickier. However, keep in mind that although adding more saline solution reduces the stickiness, and it will eventually create a stiffer slime.

SALINE SOLUTION SLIME RECIPE FOR MAKING CHRISTMAS IDEAS

STEP 1: Add 1/2 cup of Elmers Glue to your bowl

STEP 2: Mix with a 1/2 cup of water

STEP 3: Add food coloring as desired

STEP 4: Stir in 1/2 tsp baking soda

STEP 5: Mix in 1 tbsp saline solution and stir until slime forms and pulls away from sides of bowl. This is exactly how much you will need with the Target Sensitive Eyes brand, but other brands may differ slightly!

STEP 6: Once your slime is made, you can knead in your soft clay! This will take a few minutes and some good hand strengthening to get it all worked in well.

If your slime still feels too sticky, you may need a few more drops of saline solution. As I mentioned above, start by squirting a few drops of the solution onto your hands and kneading your slime longer. You can always add but you can’t take away. Saline solution is preferred over contact solution.

NOTE: We have found that the Elmers Specialty Glues tend to be a bit stickier than their regular glue, and we prefer our 2 ingredient slime recipe for this glue.

Use our “How To Fix Your Slime” guide if you are having trouble and make sure to watch my live start to finish slime video here.

TO PLAY: Make your favorite candy cane colors and twist together! Eventually the colors will mix though!

STORING YOUR SLIME

Slime lasts quite awhile! 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. I love the deli style containers in my recommended slime supplies list here.

If you want to send kids home with a bit of slime from a camp, 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 as seen here.

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