How cool is this slime and so easy too! You don’t have to get fancy with your slime making. The kids will love it regardless and you will save some money too! A basic slime filled with dollar store goodies like our eyeball Halloween slime recipe is perfect for an afternoon of complete fun {and a little science too}. We make homemade slime because we LOVE it!

HOMEMADE EYEBALL HALLOWEEN SLIME RECIPE FOR KIDS

This is one of our most basic slime recipes using clear glue. What you add makes it cool or creepy or gross. It’s almost Halloween around here and anything to do with brains and eyeballs is a big hit. For some strange reason, we are out of the plastic spiders, but you can totally add them too.

I am going to share with you all of our fun photos! At the end of this post you will find a link to our crystal clear glue slime recipe that also includes a video showing just how easy it is to make!

If you also want to learn a little bit about the science keep on scrolling through our pictures to find more information on the science behind the slime. If you need a simple chemistry demonstration with a Halloween theme, this eyeball Halloween slime recipe is for you.

MORE HALLOWEEN CHEMISTRY: Make your own wizard’s brew thermogenic experiment!

We found some great things at are local dollar store this season including a plastic brain mold! There’s a few fun things you can do with this item, so it’s well worth the dollar spent. I will also include a few Amazon Affiliate links right here just in case you need to order one!

CHECK IT OUT! Frankenstein’s Frozen Brain Science Experiment

Our homemade clear glue slime is easy to make and can last quite awhile if stored in a reusable container. In fact ours has been sitting in a glass container on the counter for over a week now! I love the plastic eyeballs you can add to it.

We also will use these eyeballs when we play with our homemade Halloween popsicle stick catapult. Another simple science idea perfect for exploring physics.

WHAT’S THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE EYEBALL HALLOWEEN SLIME RECIPE?

We have a few different styles of recipes going on here and a few of them have their own particular science, especially the taste safe ones.

However, the more traditional slimes follow some basic science concepts outline below. Plus you can read more science here.

So what’s the science behind the slime? The borate ions in the starch {or borax powder or boric acid} mixes 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.

The addition of water is important to this process. Think about when you leave a gob of glue out, and you find it hard and rubbery the next day. 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 is thicker and rubberier like slime!

We have a few other cool and creepy Halloween science experiments and activities to try this season. Check them out with the links in orange just below.

DISSECTING A GELATIN HEART: We used our plastic heart mold which is similar to the brain mold just smaller.

ZOMBIE BRAINS FLUFFY SLIME: Our ultra popular fluffy slime recipe with a cool zombie theme.

GET THE EYEBALL HALLOWEEN SLIME RECIPE SUPPLIES, RECIPE, AND WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW!

The recipe we used for this slime is one of our basics. Each basic recipe has our own page so that these posts don’t get too long. Though I do love my photos and it’s always so hard to decide what to pick! Click on the black box below that says click here.

NOTE: The recipe for crystal clear slime uses the classic borax recipe because our other awesome slime recipes will leave the slime looking cloudier {which is still fine}!

SUPPLIES

Clear Washable PVA School Glue

Borax Powder {it’s not evil and I noted some good links to read more about borax}

Water Bowl and Spoon

Measuring Cups

Fun Items Like Brains and Eyeballs

The nice part about this slime is that you can glitter and color if you like. If you choose to add color, you can also use our saline solution slime recipe or our liquid starch slime recipe.

You can find all our homemade slime recipes here and lots of slime making videos here!

There you have it! Totally awesome and easy Halloween slime recipe idea for making your own homemade slime with the kids. I haven’t met a kid yet who doesn’t love slime!

If you have always thought that slime making looks difficult, it really isn’t. It is a recipe that needs to be followed, but it’s rare for us to have a slime fail. Sometimes you just need a little practice with a favorite recipe right!