Our Gold Slime recipe is beautiful to play with and feels like liquid gold in your hands! We made a different golden slime earlier this week as an experiment, check it out too. For this gold slime, I tinkered with our traditional homemade slime recipe a bit. I found a gold glitter glue at our local Walmart and was curious to see the results.
GOLD SLIME RECIPE FOR GLITTERY SCIENCE & SENSORY PLAY
Who doesn’t love anything gold and sparkly. We originally made our gold slime for a St. Patricks Day science and sensory activity, but it’s really awesome for anytime of the year. We also have made these awesome silver and gold sensory bottles as well as silver slime!
We love the super stretch of this amazing, glittering slime!
LET’S MAKE GOLD GLITTER SLIME TOGETHER!
Grab your ingredients and let’s get started. If you don’t have the chance to pick up this extra bottle of gold glue, you can still make a cool gold slime by adding extra glitter!
GOLD SLIME SUPPLIES
Liquid Starch {laundry aisle}
Gold Glitter Glue
Clear Elmer’s Washable School Glue
Extra Gold Glitter {optional}
Water
Mixing Bowl, Measuring Cup, Spoon
Container for Slime
MAKING YOUR GOLD SLIME
I filled a 1/2 cup measurer about 2/3 with glitter glue and a 1/3 with the clear glue. You can easily get these little bottle son gold and silver glue from the dollar store. They are about 1.5 oz. Squeeze as much as you can into your 1/2 cup and fill the rest of the way with clear glue.
Add this mixture to a bowl containing 1/2 cup of warm water and mix as best as you can.
Next add 1/2 cup of liquid starch and mix with hands.
This glue mix will not absorb all the starch like my traditional slime recipe does. That’s ok. Just discard the liquid.
Spend some time kneading the slime with your hands, and it will be lovely!
Once it is well mixed, transfer to a clean container to store.
Adding a small amount of the clear washable Elmer’s glue to the gold craft glue helped to bind it all together creating a wonderful, stretchy gold slime! I can’t guarantee an amazing gold slime without the addition of the Elmer’s clear glue.
A couple notes for this gold slime: I was skeptical about it when I fist made it. I actually thought it was a bust. Then I picked it up again and started playing with it.
The warmth of your hands really gets slime going! It does like to stick to the container but once you get it out, it’s amazing!
OUR GOLD SLIME RECIPE IS SCIENCE AND SENSORY PLAY
This gold slime is soft, stretchy, and very fluid. It’s a bit stickier and can stretch so thin that you may need to peel it off. I think it feels like liquid gold slime! Slime also makes awesome tactile sensory play.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE HOMEMADE GOLD SLIME RECIPE
What’s the science behind the slime? The borate ions in the slime activator {sodium borate, 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!
Read more about slime science here!
You can make silver slime with the same recipe using silver glue and silver glitter!
HERE’S SOME SLIME MAKING RESOURCES!
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It’s less likely to break off into pieces. However, this gold slime recipe does make less gold slime than our other version of gold sparkle slime.
Can you say stretchy, super stretchy slime!
Make slime with your kids. It’s awesome for so many different age groups. If you need alternative slime recipes, check out our suggestions her. We have taste safe slimes too!
MAKE HOMEMADE GOLD SLIME WITH YOUR KIDS!
Find out best homemade slime recipes right here!
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Ginny says
Are you using liquid or solid cornstarch with this? I’m looking for a solid cornstarch recipe. Thanks! And your bog has some great ideas!
littlebins says
This is a liquid starch from the laundry aisle. You can make oobleck with powdered cornstarch and water. Use the search bar on the homepage and search oobleck!
Teresa says
I’m a dunce and used cornstarch. Afterward I realized she meant liquid starch. Also it’s not listed in the ingredients list so I was in the middle of it and that’s when the fatal flaw happened. I just stuck it in the fridge for tomorrow when I buy liquid starch.
That was my 2nd “slime” recipe of the day that failed.
littlebins says
I am glad you pointed that out and I added liquid starch to the list!
TwoPlusCute says
Love how it looks. Now I want to play with that!
Stacey says
Have you ever bought other brands of washable clear glue, that are available by the gallon? I want to do this for a birthday party, and it would be much less expensive to get the big bottle, but I see that some other glues have failed to work, so wanted to know your experience.
littlebins says
I have an d it has been sort of hit or miss if they work or not. I am not quite sure what the difference is. Though I did make a slime with a portion of dollar store glitter glue and the rest Elmer’s. You may end up with a stickier, messier slime.
Marsha says
Hi, I live in Canada and we don’t have the liquid starch here. Trust me, I have tried everywhere! Do you know a substitute? There are Borax slime recipes that work but the latest research is not to use Borax for children. I love slime so I hope you can help me. thanks for your reply, Marsha…[email protected]
littlebins says
We are testing out a couple recipes and if you look at our alternative slime recipes post you might find something that works for you!
lisa says
Where can i bought them?
littlebins says
What are you looking to buy?
Desiree says
I think this works wonderfully thanks for the recipe.
RANDEA says
The clear Elmer’s school glue is available ( or I should say that it used to be) through school supply catalogs for teachers and parents that home school. I did both 30 years ago. We did not have online ordering. It must be so much easier now! I apologize I do not remember the clear glue but I know that I purchased gallon jugs of white glue. And for the lady from Canada that cannot find liquid starch it is very simple to make using the powdered starch. The recipe should be on the container. Make sure that you get laundry starch! I hope that everyone takes the time to share smiles and hugs with your children and the rest of the world! Enjoy!
littlebins says
It seems Elmers washable glue is in short supply now! I usually order mine off Amazon. Liquid starch is not available in Canada although Borax powder is. Some people do not care to use the borax powder though. We also have a stretchy slime recipe that uses eye drop solution that might be more readily available in Canada which contains boric acid. Pleas make sure to not substitute ingredients of the slime recipe does not call for it. This can be potentially harmful.