If you have wanted to learn how to make slime, this textured and scented cotton candy slime is perfect for summer! Our homemade slime recipe combines the traditional colors of cotton candy and a couple of unique ingredients for the BEST theme slime ever!
How to Make Fluffy Cotton Candy Slime
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You Will Need:
The recipe below makes one batch of homemade slime.
- 1/2 cup of Clear or White Elmers Washable School Glue
- 1/2 cup of water
- 1 cup of foam shaving cream
- Food Coloring (pink or sky blue are favorites)
- 1/2 Tsp Baking Soda
- 1 TBSP Saline Solution
- 1/2 cup of Fine Fake Snow (add to slime after)
- Cotton Candy Scent
Instructions
- Combine glue and water.
- Add in shaving cream and mix gently.
- Add desired food coloring and stir. (Add scent if desired)
- Mix in baking soda.
- Stir in slime activator saline solution.
- Keep stirring until the slime is well formed and pulls away from sides and bottom of the bowl.
- Time to add your fake snow!
Squirt some saline solution on your hands and knead your slime and fake snow together. The more snow you add, the denser your slime will become, so we kept it around 1/2 cup—not too thick and not too thin.
Pink fluffy slime with fake snow for texture and cotton candy fragrance oil is the perfect combo for summer slime making!
A huge bag of fine fake snow goes a long way! Plus, it doesn’t have to be winter to use it! I had some of these cotton candy paper holders left over, and they made a fun play addition to the fluffy cotton candy-scented slime recipe.
Storing Cotton Candy 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, as it will last for several weeks. I love the deli-style containers in my recommended slime supplies list here.
Note: The slime will decrease as the shaving cream loses its air, but it’s still super fun!
If you want to send kids home with slime from a camp, party, or classroom project, I suggest packages of reusable containers from the dollar store, grocery store, or even Amazon. For large groups, we have used condiment containers, as seen here.
Slime Recipe Science
We always like to include a bit of homemade slime science around here. Slime really does make for an excellent chemistry demonstration, and kids love it, too! Mixtures, substances, polymers, cross-linking, states of matter, elasticity, and viscosity are just a few 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 form this cool, stretchy substance. This is called cross-linking!
The glue is a polymer made up of long, repeating, and identical strands or molecules. These molecules 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. 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 a clump of spaghetti!
💡 Is slime a liquid or solid? We call it a non-Newtonian fluid because it’s a bit of both! Read more about slime science here!
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