Amazing Gold Slime Recipe

Our Gold Slime recipe is beautiful to play with and feels like liquid gold in your hands! Super easy to make and even more fun to play with, this gorgeous gold glitter slime uses just 2 ingredients!  We love awesome homemade slime.

GOLD SLIME RECIPE FOR GLITTERY SCIENCE & SENSORY PLAY

PLAY WITH GLITTER

Who doesn’t love anything gold and sparkly? We originally made our gold slime for a St. Patricks Day activity, but really gold slime is awesome for anytime of the year. We also have made these awesome silver and gold glitter bottles as well as silver slime!

Slime making is a serious matter with kids, and I know everyone is looking for the best slime recipes around.  Our Gold Slime Recipe is yet another AMAZING slime recipe we can show you how to make.

Oh and slime is science too, so don’t miss the great information on the science of slime below.  Watch our awesome slime videos and see how easy it is to make the best gold slime!

BASIC SLIME RECIPES 

All of our holiday, seasonal, and everyday slimes use one of five basic slime recipes that are super easy to make! We make slime all the time, and these have become our go-to favorite slime recipes!

Here we use our Glitter Glue Slime recipe.

Glitter glue slime is one of our favorite sensory play recipes!  We make it ALL the time because it is so quick and easy to whip up.   A few simple ingredients (liquid starch is one) are all you need!

Where do I buy liquid starch?

We pick up our liquid starch in the grocery store! Check the laundry detergent aisle and look for the bottles marked starch. Ours is Linit Starch (brand). You might also see Sta-Flo as a popular option. You can also find it on Amazon, Walmart, Target, and even craft stores.

But what if I don’t have liquid starch available to me?

This is a pretty common question from those who live outside of the United States, and we do have some alternatives to share with you.  Click on the link to see if any of these will work! Our saline solution slime recipe also works well for Australian, Canadian and UK readers.

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

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HOST A SLIME MAKING PARTY AT HOME OR SCHOOL!

I always thought slime was too difficult to make, but then I tried it! Now we are hooked on it. Grab some liquid starch and glitter glue and get started! We have even made slime with a small group of kids for a slime party!  This slime recipe below also makes a great slime to use in the classroom! 

We love the super stretch of this amazing, glittering gold slime!

HOW DO YOU MAKE 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

GOLD SLIME RECIPE

Time to make slime! 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!

YOU WILL NEED:

• 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

HOW TO MAKE GOLD SLIME

STEP 1: Fill a 1/2 cup measuring container about 2/3 with glitter glue and 1/3 with the clear glue and add to your bowl.

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.

Adding a small amount of the clear washable Elmer’s glue to the gold craft glue helps 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.

STEP 2: Add 1/2 cup of  warm water to the glue and mix together as best as you can.

STEP 3: Next add  1/2 cup of liquid starch to the mixture and combine.

This glue mix will not absorb all the starch like my traditional slime recipe does. That’s ok, just discard the leftover liquid.

STEP 4: Now spend some time kneading the slime with your hands, and it will be lovely!

The warmth of your hands really gets slime going! It does like to stick to the container but once you get it out and knead it, it’s amazing!

STRETCHY GOLD SLIME TO PLAY WITH

This gold slime is soft, stretchy, and very fluid. It’s a bit stickier than our other slime recipes and can stretch so thin that you may need to peel it off. I think it feels like liquid gold slime!

Get some on clothes, no worries!! Check out 3 ways you can easily get slime out of clothing.

You can make silver slime with the same recipe using silver glue and silver glitter!

MORE FUN SLIME RECIPES TO TRY

• Fluffy Slime Recipe
• Borax Slime
• Saline Solution Slime
• How To Make Clear Slime
• Galaxy Slime
• Rainbow Slime
• Anna and Elsa Glitter Slime
• Glitter Slime
• Floam Recipe
• Snow Slime Recipes
• Edible Slime

MAKE HOMEMADE GOLD SLIME WITH YOUR KIDS!

Check out more awesome slime recipes right here!

Add some rainbow science to your day too!

No more having to print out a WHOLE blog post for just one recipe!

Get our basic slime recipes in an easy to print format so you can knock out the activities!

—>>>  FREE SLIME RECIPE CARDS