Slime is one of the coolest chemistry experiments out there, and all you need are a few things from the grocery store to make this clear glitter slime. You don’t have to use just white glue to make slime, you can easily make slime with clear glue too! Check out our glittery slime recipe that shines and sparkles, for awesome homemade slime.
Make Clear Slime With Sparklingly Glitter
We love our traditional liquid starch slime recipe with both clear glue and white glue. It works great either way and there are so many fun ways to dress up slime. Some times we feel like making a glittering slime and some times we feel like making an opaque oozing slime.
We have used clear glue to make cool slimes like our oozing eye ball slime for Halloween party favors, our pumpkin guts slime made inside a real pumpkin, gorgeous ocean slime, and rainbow glitter slime!
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Basic Slime Recipes
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Which Slime Recipe To Use?
We have several basic slime recipes that can all be used for this glitter slime recipe. You decide which one works best for you depending on what slime activator you want to use. This allows for some flexibility depending on where you live in the world! Not everyone has access to the same ingredients!
Each of the basic slime recipes below have the full step by step photos, directions, and even videos to help you along the way!
In the recipe below, we used our liquid starch slime recipe.
Helpful Slime Making Resources To Get Your Started
These are the best resources to look through before, during, and after making your awesome clear glitter 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
A Bit Of Slime Science
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…
Clear Glitter Slime Recipe
Supplies:
- 1/2 cup PVA Washable Clear Glue
- 1/2 cup Liquid Starch
- Glitter
- 1/2 cup Water
- Container, Measuring Cup, and Spoon
How To Make Clear Glitter Slime
STEP 1. Add 1/2 cup of glue to a container
STEP 2. Add 1/2 cup of water and mix.
STEP 3. Now add your glitter. Be generous! You can also add food coloring. Stir everything together again.
STEP 4. Add 1/2 cup of liquid starch to your glue and glitter mixture. What’s really cool is that it is an immediate reaction!
Your slime will start to come together immediately. Keep stirring until it’s too thick to stir with the spoon and switch to using your hands! Pretty cool science if you ask me.
Now you have thick and stretchy, clear glue glitter slime ready for examining. I find that clear glue produces a firmer, thicker slime but still oozes and stretches, but you need to be a bit gentler with it.
Our recipe has been a no fail recipe for making slime for the last few years. We love this cool chemistry activity and hope you will too. Make sure to check out more of our awesome science and STEM projects for kids of all ages!
How To Store Slime
Slime lasts quite a while! 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.
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 and labels as seen here.
If you have been wanting to make a fun glitter slime recipe with your kids, our easy recipe is perfect for you! Give it a try and let us know what you think.
More Fun Slime Recipes To Try
If your kids love playing with slime, why not try more favorite slime ideas…
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What can I use instead of liquids starch? Is cornflour okay?
You can check out our list of slime recipes here: https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/homemade-slime-recipe/
You can not substitute corn flour for liquid starch. Liquid starch contains sodium borate which is the slime activator. We have made a fun dough/slime with cornstarch and glue which you should find in the link above.
Are you certain that this uses polyvinyl acetate? I think Elmers Glue is probably polyvinyl alcohol as it is washable while the acetate isn’t.
It’s still poly vinyl acetate!
I heard you can use contact solution as a fast activater for the slime is this true!?!
Yes we also have an awesome saline solution slime recipe {which is contact solution}. https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/how-to-make-saline-solution-slime-recipe/
how much slime does this yield?
what size container did you use to keep the slime
I can’t buy Elmer’s, Glue cuz I live in Vietnam. It’s so expensive to pay for freight rate 🙁 Can I use anything instead of Elmer’s Glue?
You just need to look for a PVA glue!
Whatever size reusable container best fits your portion of slime!