Looking for some fun and easy ways to celebrate St Patrick’s Day with your kids? Naturally, when St Patrick’s Day rolls around, celebrate with easy homemade slime recipes. From green glitter slime, Leprechaun, rainbow slime to glittery gold slime. You might even find a pot of gold at the end of the slime rainbow! Here’s how to make the best St Patrick’s Day Slime!
What You Need To Make St Patrick’s Day Slime
We invite you to learn how to make slime for St Patrick’s Day this month! Slime making is so much fun if you have the best recipes to use! Here’s what you will need…
Slime Activator
The base for any of these slimes uses our basic slime recipes (click here) with the common slime activators which include saline solution and baking soda, borax powder, or liquid starch.
- Saline Solution Slime Recipe
- Borax Powder Slime Recipe
- Fluffy Slime Recipe
- Liquid Starch Slime Recipe
- 2 Ingredient Glitter Glue Slime Recipe
Slime Add Ins
Turn one of our basic slime recipes into an awesome St Patrick’s Day slime with one or more of these ingredients:
- Green food coloring
- Green or gold glitter
- Gold coins
- Shamrock or leprechaun confetti
- Small black pots
Fun St Patrick’s Day Slime Recipes
Below, you will find the links to all our BEST St. Patrick’s Day slime recipes. You will find several neat slimes that use some fun extra ingredients that you can re-use for St Patrick’s Day STEM activities!
Green Slime For St Patrick’s Day
You will love how stretchy this green slime is to make, and play with too! This St Patrick’s Day Green Slime is filled with gold, glitter, sequins, and gorgeous color, but it’s way easier to make than you might think.
St Patrick’s Day Fluffy Slime
Shaving foam, green food coloring and glitter makes for awesome fluffy slime kids will love to play with! Add in some gold coins for a sensory treasure hunt.
Leprechaun Slime
Can you catch a leprechaun? Take our classic clear slime recipe and add in green glitter and leprechaun confetti for a fun St Patrick’s Day slime.
Gold Slime
What is a leprechaun looking for? Gold, of course! Make an amazing metallic gold slime for St Patrick’s Day.
Alternatively, make this easy 2 ingredient gold glitter glue slime.
Rainbow Slime
Make batches of slime in the colors of the rainbow, and swirl them together for an amazing color feast! There has to be a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow.
Rainbow Fluffy Slime
Here is a fun fluffy slime recipe to make in a rainbow of colors for St Patrick’s Day! Add a pot of gold coins at the end of your rainbow.
FREE Printable St. Patrick’s Day Slime Challenge!
Helpful Slime Making Resources To Get You Started
These are the best resources to look through before, during, and after making your awesome St Patrick’s Day slime! We talk more about slime science below too.
- 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
The Science of 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…
More Fun St Patrick’s Day Activities
- Play St Patrick’s Day bingo
- Try a St Patrick’s Day STEM challenge
- Experiment with rainbows
- Build St Patrick’s LEGO challenges
- Make a leprechaun trap
Printable St Patrick’s Day STEM Pack
Get ready to catch a Leprechaun, explore fizzy pots, and dig for gold coin oobleck all while exploring simple science and engineering design process with the St Patrick’s Day STEM Pack!
Over 100 pages of easy to use STEM activities that will make your prep and planning time a cinch! Cheap supplies, easy to set up and clean up, and full of hands-on fun!
- 25+ St. Patrick’s Day science activities and STEM projects kids that are easy to set up and fit into the time you have available even if it’s limited!
- Printable leprechaun theme STEM activities that are simple but engaging for home or classroom. Perfect for K-2 and beyond but easily adaptable to many skill levels.
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