Our latest adventure in slime is all about Valentine’s Day and how to make Valentines Day Floam Slime! We have been having dos of fun recreating our favorite basic slime recipes with a Valentine’s Day theme! We have a gorgeous Valentine’s saline slime and foam slime. Now we are going to show you how to make a classic foam slime with favorite Valentine’s Day colors and send it off with the kids as a candy free treat!
HOW TO MAKE VALENTINES DAY FLOAM SLIME FOR CANDY FREE TREATS!
Give a little love, slime love for Valentine’s Day! Or just have a super lot of fun with your kids this winter. We love making slime for the different holidays and special occasions like this one! I am a sucker for Valentine’s Day, so of course I am a sucker for creating fun Valentine’s Day theme slimes.
CHECK OUT WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY MADE!
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Learn how to make Glittering Valentine’s Day Slime {slime making buffet with confetti!}!
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MAKING YOUR FLOAM SLIME RECIPE
All of our holiday, seasonal, and everyday theme slimes use one of our 4 basic slime recipes that are super easy to make! We make slime all the time, and these have become our go-to favorite slime making recipes.
This slime adds one special ingredient to our basic slime recipe, tiny foam balls.
I will always let you know which recipe we used in our photographs, but I will also tell you which of the other basic recipes will work too! Usually you can interchange several of the recipes depending on what you have for slime supplies.
Make sure to read through our recommended slime supplies and print out a slime supplies checklist for your next trip to the store. After the supplies listed below you will see click here black boxes for slime recipes that will work with this theme.
EXTRA SLIMY RESOURCES
If you scroll down to the bottom, you will find click here boxes with our most popular slime topics that you may find helpful.
Slime is easy to make, but it’s important that you read the directions, use the correct ingredients, measure accurately, and have a little patience if you don’t succeed the first time. Remember, it’s a recipe just like baking!
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VALENTINES DAY FLOAM SLIME RECIPE SUPPLIES
I have provided a few amazon links below for your convenience so you can see our picks for how to make Valentines day floam slime. We are a part of their affiliate program at no cost to you. I recommend you look through our recommended supplies list too!
White Washable PVA School Glue
Liquid Starch
Water
Foam Beads {crafts, slime making}
Food Coloring
Heart Containers {can also use condiment containers}
Bowl, Spoon, Measuring Cup
A quick note, our main recipe pages will show you the steps, pictures, and even video of the slime being made. Please click on the links, black box, or picture below to make your slime. This page will showcase our Valentine’s theme with helpful hints and tips.
VALENTINES DAY FLOAM MAKING AND PLAYING
Although your foam beads are colored, you will still want to add food coloring to match the beads. You can experiment with how many beads you choose to add, we added the whole package but the fun is in creating your own.
Kids can add cookie cutters for fun play. They can also mix and match the colors and swirl them together. If you let the slime spread out a bit on a tray, you can actually cut out slime hearts with the cookie cutters! If you let them dry {flipping them over after a day}, you have a little craft!
We made three batches of our Valentine’s Day floam and it filled 18 of our heart containers {see supplies above}. This makes a great treat to hand out if you don’t want to give out candy this year! Just check with your school first!
Last year, we used condiment containers from the dollar store and made printable slime labels for them.
MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT: All our CANDY FREE VALENTINE ideas for kids STEM!
HOW TO MAKE VALENTINES DAY FLOAM SLIME TIPS
SLIME FAILURES
The biggest reason for slime fails is not reading through the recipe! People contact me all the time with: “Why didn’t this work?”
Most of the time the answer has been lack of attention to supplies needed, reading the recipe, and actually measuring the ingredients! So give it a try and do let me know if you need some help. On a very rare occasion I have gotten an old batch of glue, and there is no fixing that!
STORING YOUR SLIME
I get a lot of questions regarding how I store my slime. Usually we use a reusable container either plastic or glass. If you keep your slime clean it will last for several weeks. And…if you forget to store your slime in a container, it does actually last a few days uncovered. If the top gets crusty just fold it into itself.
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. For large groups we have used condiment containers as seen here. As you can see we got a little festive and also have heart shaped containers!
THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE HOMEMADE FLOAM 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 as it helps the strands slide easily making the ooze!
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!
HERE’S SOME SLIME MAKING RESOURCES!
Did you know we also have fun with science activities too? Click on all the black boxes below to learn more.
And of course plenty more Valentine’s Day chemistry ideas to last you the whole season.
LEARN HOW TO MAKE VALENTINES DAY FLOAM SLIME WITH KIDS FOR SCIENCE AND SENSORY PLAY!
You will love it! Happy experimenting,
Liam and Sarah
P.S. We hope you join us this year with awesome science, slime, and STEM!
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