Colorful Foil Slime

Unique Slime At Your Fingertips

We started off by trying out the standard gold leaf sheets in a clear glue slime base, but we also had these awesome and shiny colored metallic ones! Why not mix it up and give it that 80/90’s pop, Saved by the Bell, Lisa Frank-esque look! Do you remember those fun folders for school? I might have been in the 6th grade?

Watch the video below to see how easy it is to add the foil sheets to create a colorful foil slime no matter what colors you choose for sheets or slime!

Where To Buy Metallic Foil Sheets?

The metallic foil sheets for slime are super easy to pick up on Amazon and possibly your local craft stores too. Even better, they are inexpensive and come in large packs. Perfect for slime making parties or large groups.

Tips For Making Slime

The base for this foil 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.

Our easy, “how to make” slime recipes will show you how to master slime in 5 minutes! We have spent years tinkering with our 4 now 5 favorite basic slime recipes to make sure you can make the BEST slime every time!

We believe learning how to make slime shouldn’t be disappointing or frustrating! That’s why we want to take the guesswork out of making slime!

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We have the best resources to look through before, during, and after making your foil slime! Make sure to read the slime science further below too!

Foil Slime Recipe

Make several batches of colors as we did for a cool effect! I love the neon food colorings or you can use acrylic paint (as seen in our paint slime recipe)

Supplies:

• 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tbsp Saline Solution
• 1/2 cup of white Washable School Glue
• 1/2 cup of water
• Food Coloring
• Color Foil Sheets

Instructions:

STEP 1: Add 1/2 cup of 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 the bowl. This is exactly how much you will need with the Target Sensitive Eyes brand!

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. Keep in mind, you can always add but you can’t take away. Remember, saline solution is preferred over contact solution.

The photo below represents one batch of this white glue slime recipe!

STEP 6: If you have made multiple slime colors, lay them out in strips next to each other. Place foil sheets on top and go to town breaking them up for a crackled look! Very satisfying!

How To Store 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 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 and labels as seen here.

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The Science of Foil Slime

We always like to include a bit of homemade slime science around here! 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 slime science all about? 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…

You add the borate ions to the mixture,  and it then 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 rubbery 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?

Did you know that slime aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)?

It does and you can use slime making to explore states of matter and its interactions. Find out more below…

• NGSS Kindergarten
• NGSS First Grade
• NGSS Second Grade

Helpful Slime Making Resources

These are the best resources to look through before, during, and after making your awesome foil slime!

• Slime Activator List
• What is slime?
• What You Need To Make Slime
• Amazing Benefits Of Playing With Slime
• Best Slime Ideas
• How To Make Slime Less Sticky
• How To Get Slime Out Of Clothes And Hair