You stick out your tongue, close your eyes, and tilt your head up to the sky as big fat snowflakes start to fall. Let it snow, let it snow! That’s what my son has been saying for the last month now. I’m ok with waiting a little longer before I see the flakes fly. Whether you love or hate snow or live somewhere where there will never be snow, you can still learn how to make homemade snowflake slime recipe with the kids! Making slime is an awesome winter indoor activity.
HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE SNOWFLAKE SLIME RECIPE AND VIDEO!
A newly fallen blanket of snow, big fluffy flakes falling steadily through the air, and a favorite homemade slime recipe are perfect for a winter afternoon activity. Don’t have any snow, 80 degrees and sunny? No worries, you can still create a snowstorm in the kitchen or classroom with our homemade snowflake slime recipe!
Slime making is even more fun when you add in creative winter themes like snowflakes. We have quite a few snow inspired themes to share, and we are always adding more. Our Homemade Snowflake Slime Recipe is yet another AMAZING slime recipe we can show you how to make.
OUR HOMEMADE BASIC SLIME RECIPES ARE THE SLIME RECIPES YOU NEED TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE!
SNOWFLAKE SLIME SCIENCE AND CHEMISTRY
We always like to include a bit of homemade slime science around here, and that’s perfect for exploring Chemistry with a fun winter theme. 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 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 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…
SLIME IS A NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID
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 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 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?
EASY SNOW SLIME IDEAS
We made this winter snowflake slime with clear glue, glitter and confetti snowflakes.
Here are a few fun and easy snow slime ideas to try if you if you want more wintery themes, check these out: See the full snow slime collection here.
- Fake Snow Slime: Add a cup or so of fine fake snow to your recipe when mixing in the glitter etc. You can also mix your snow in after the slime is made.
- Snow Floam: Add in a cup or so of white foam beads as you whip up your slime recipe. Use white glue too. See our crunchy foam slime here.
- Melting Snowman Slime: Make a melted snowman out of slime using white glue and fun accessories.
- Cloud Slime: See how to add the fun insta-snow to your slime activity with this cloud slime recipe.
If you want to see what else you can mix into slime and how to make awesome slime ideas all year round, check out our Ultimate Slime Guide Book. It’s the perfect accessory and comes with some great slime freebies as well!
*NOTE: This slime can also be made using our saline solution slime recipe too! Click here.
BORAX SLIME RECIPE TIPS
Classic borax slime is one of our most basic slime recipes which is clear glue, water, and borax powder.
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 saline solution.
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 guess work out of making slime!
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We have the best resources to look through before, during, and after making your snowflake slime! Make sure to go back and read the slime science above too!
- BEST Slime Supplies
- How To Fix Slime: Troubleshooting Guide
- Slime safety Tips for Kids and Adult
- How To Remove Slime from Clothes
- Master Your Slime Training Series
BORAX SLIME RECIPE SUPPLIES
Make sure to read through our recommended slime supplies list for the brands we like to use and see all the fun mix-ins out there!
1/4 tsp Borax Powder {found in laundry detergent aisle}.
1/2 cup Elmer’s Clear Washable PVA School Glue
1 cup of Water divided into 1/2 cups
Glitter, Snowflake Confetti, Food Coloring (optional)
Step by Step Recipe Listed Below Pictures
SNOWFLAKE SLIME RECIPE DIRECTIONS BELOW
This fun winter slime activity calls for one batch of our easy borax slime recipe. You can make more or less depending on your ideas! *You can also use our saline solution recipe! Click here
The best slime recipe starts with the right slime ingredients. Make sure to follow along with our measurements. Start by adding your glue and water to a bowl and grab a mixing utensil. Mix it up and add food coloring, glitter, and confetti as desired!
Add a healthy amount of snowflake confetti and glitter if desired. Make sure to not add too much otherwise your slime will be more likely to break apart due to the confetti getting in the way.
Got a Frozen fan? This is perfect to go along with a favorite movie too.
BEST SLIME ACTIVATORS
Add in your slime activator (borax powder) to complete the chemical reaction you read about above in the science behind the slime section. If you scrolled past it, go back and read it with your kids!
You can also learn more about all our favorite slime activators here. Keep in mind that liquid starch, saline solution, and borax powder are all in the boron family. Neither of these ingredients are truly borax free.
Mix 1/4 tsp of borax powder into a 1/2 of warm water to make your slime activator solution.
Borax powder mixed with hot water is the slime activator that creates the rubbery, slimy texture you can’t wait to play with! It’s super easy to whip up this homemade slime recipe once you get the hang of it.
KNEADING SLIME IS KEY
We always recommend kneading your slime well after mixing. Kneading the slime really helps to improve it’s consistency. The trick with saline solution slime is to squirt a few drops of solution onto your hands before picking up the slime.
You can knead the slime in the bowl before you pick it up as well. This slime is stretchy but can be stickier. However, keep in mind that although adding more saline solution reduces the stickiness, and it will eventually create a stiffer slime.
MAKE BORAX SLIME RIGHT EVERY TIME!
1: Dissolve 1/4 teaspoon of borax powder into 1/2 cup of warm water in one of the three bowls. Mix this thoroughly.
BORAX SLIME NOTE: We have recently tinkered with our recipe and found that for a better oozing slime 1/4 tsp of powder is best (if using clear glue always use 1/4 tsp). If you like a firmer slime and are using white glue, we experimented with 1/2 tsp and 1 tsp. 1 tsp makes a much firmer putty like slime.
2: In the second bowl measure out about 1/2 cup of clear glue and mix with 1/2 cup of water until well mixed
3: Pour borax/water mixture into glue/water mixture and stir it up!
4: You will see it come together right away. It will seem stringy and clumpy, but that’s ok! Remove from bowl.
5: Spend a few minutes kneading the mixture together. You may have left over borax solution.
6: Store in clean container with cover. I love the deli style plastic food storage containers.
TOO STICKY? If your slime still feels too sticky, you may need a few more drops of borax solution
SLIME NOTE: We have found that the Elmers specialty glues tend to be a bit stickier than their regular glue, and we prefer our 2 ingredient slime recipe for this glue. The blue glitter glue would be fun for this snowflake slime too!
Use our “How To Fix Your Slime” guide if you are having trouble and make sure to watch my live start to finish slime video here.
STORING YOUR SNOWFLAKE SLIME
Slime lasts quite awhile! 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. I love the deli style containers in my recommended slime supplies list here.
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 as seen here.
Want to have all our basic recipes handy and in one place? Use the buttons just below to download your free slime recipes cheat sheet pages and challenges. We also have an awesome MASTER YOUR SLIME training series going on here.
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November 28, 2017 at 1:54 pmWow, Thanks for sharing the nice recipe.
Dana Lewis
January 28, 2018 at 11:25 pmKewl Slime stuff, This will be one of our projects,,