If you want to learn how to make easy slime for Halloween and fill it with fun confetti for the holidays, we have the best homemade slime recipes for you to use! Halloween is an awesome time of the year for oozing, stretching, creepy crawly filled slime, and we have so many variations to share with you. Learn how to make a crystal clear slime right here and add your favorite holiday theme confetti like our fun bats! A slime fit for either Batman or a witch!
MAKE EASY SLIME FOR HALLOWEEN!

This easy to make Halloween slime is the perfect party activity and party favor for kids. Plus it’s fun to whip up and put together with really simple ingredients that you can pick up at the grocery store too. Packed into little plastic condiment containers, Halloween themed candy free slime party favor ideas are great to make and take or hand out at the end of the night.
Kick off Halloween with an easy slime recipe! Science is full of cool ways to create including homemade Halloween slime ideas.
Slime making is even more fun when you add in creative seasonal themes, and I know kids love the novelty of theme activities. Our Elmers Glue Halloween 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!
See how easy it is to make crystal clear slime below for your favorite holiday theme confetti. Or check out the 2nd video with an alternative Halloween slime recipe.
This slime recipe uses a different slime activator and we add color!
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 fall 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…
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!
SLIME FOR NGSS: Did you know that slime aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards? It does and you can use slime making to explore states of matter and its interactions. Check out NGSS 2-PS1-1 for more information!
Read more about slime science here!
SIMPLE HALLOWEEN SLIME RECIPE
We made this Halloween theme slime recipe with clear glue. You can add glitter and confetti if desired and even food coloring!
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!
What can you pack into your slime? Just check out the Halloween party aisle of your local dollar store, party store, or craft store. They make a confetti (or sometimes called table scatter) for every occasion. I have seen an assortment for Halloween including bats, jack o’lanterns, ghosts, and more!
- spiders and insects
- vampire teeth
- google eyes or plastic eye balls
- Halloween confetti
CHECK IT OUT: See how yo use these items for all of our fun Halloween theme slime recipes
ELMERS CLEAR GLUE HALLOWEEN SLIME RECIPE TIPS
The base for this Halloween theme slime uses one of our most basic slime recipes (classic borax slime recipe) which is clear glue, water, and borax powder. HOWEVER: If you prefer to use our saline solution recipe as seen in the video above, that works too! You will not get a crystal clear slime, but you can add food coloring.
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!
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HALLOWEEN SLIME INGREDIENTS
As I mentioned above, you can use any of our basic slime recipes for this fall inspired cinnamon scented slime, but we like our basic saline solution slime recipe with the Elmers white washable school glue. I will link the products we used here with Amazon affiliate links below.
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1/2 cup of Elmer’s Clear Glue
1/2 cup of water
Borax Solution: 1/2 cup of warm water mixed with 1/4 tsp of borax powder until dissolved.
Food Coloring Glitter, Confetti as desired
Basic slime recipe cheat sheet printable (bottom of page)
HALLOWEEN SLIME RECIPE DIRECTIONS BELOW PHOTOS
For even more helpful tips and tricks with this slime including photo directions and a live video, CLICK HERE!
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.
If your slime still feels too sticky, you may need a few more drops of borax solution. You can always add but you can’t take away. Adding to much activator will temporarily make the slime less sticky but will also make the slime more rubbery and brittle over time. Knead, knead, and knead some more!
NOTE: We have found that the Elmers Specialty Glues tend to be a bit stickier than their regular clear glue and we prefer our 2 ingredient slime recipe for this glue.
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
Halloween party favors can be so much more than candy. Even better it means that all kids regardless of allergies can enjoy the fun and excitement of Halloween. If you are throwing a Halloween party or even a Halloween play date, make slime with the kids. They will have a blast and so will you!
STORING YOUR 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 in the pictures above!
Want to have all our basic recipes handy and in one place? Use the button just below to download your free slime recipes cheat sheet pages. We also have an awesome MASTER YOUR SLIME training series going on here.
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Check out more cool slime recipes and information by clicking on the photos below!
Also check out our Halloween STEM Countdown Calendar filled with slime and science ideas perfect for Halloween!
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Samantha @Stir the Wonder
This looks so cool! Now I need spiders & bats! LOL
littlebins
Aw lots of fun!
Ryan Henry
Yoooo! Lol, You can try spider-Slime your own.
Georgina @ Craftulate
I love this!!!
littlebins
Thanks George!
Melissa
Did I miss the recipe & directions??
littlebins
Yes you must click through the ink I provided which is in the paragraph above the ingredients! It’s not my original to share!
Julie
The link to the recipe would not open. Could you publish the recipe or the link to the site? My kids loved playing with slime and I would like to make some for my grandkids.
littlebins
I am sorry it works for me! Please try again. I am afraid it would be unethical for me to post directly as it is not my original!
Janet Wery
Love new recipes would love to know how much ingredient it needs for the slime.
littlebins
Please check in the top of the post. I link to the exact recipe as it isn’t an original!
Traci B.
Great ideas!
Terri Ernst
This will be great to make with the grandkids.
Nan Ruhl
Love your ideas…wasn’t sure of the amounts of the ingredients of bat slime!!,
littlebins
Please click through the link that takes you to the recipe. It’s not mine to share exactly!
Jessica
The link will not open. I have all of the ingredients and can’t do the project because the link isn’t working, as stated above in someone’s earlier post.
littlebins
I have checked and re-checked and have asked several people to open it for me. I have re stated it so please try the click here exact recipe. http://www.hometrainingtools.com/a/slime-recipes-project is the link.
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Amy
Love this idea! Where did you purchase the little bats in the slime? Thanks!
littlebins
The confetti was from target I believe!
Melissa Faulkner
The link won’t work for me either. It goes to the site and then the screen goes white and won’t load.
littlebins
I am sorry I think I caused them too much traffic! 1/2c water mixed with 1/2 c glue and then mix into 1tsp of borax diluted with 1c of water!
Kylene
I’m doing this as a bday party craft any idea of how much it makes? is the pictured amount 1 batch? I’m thinking of splitting the recipe up for small batches of slime.
littlebins
It is one batch. You might get two-3 out of one!
Kaela
Can I mix food coloring in? Green, for example to make it clear green?
littlebins
I bet it would work but haven’t tried it!
Marcia
just did clear glue with green food coloring…worked perfect! it’s still clear but green…I actually put a drop of glue in the bottle and shook it up that way. What a workout for 12 bottles of glue 🙂
littlebins
Awesome! We will actually be making a green too soon!
chantilly07
Darnit. My phone won’t open the links either. I bought the stuff to make it but not exactly sure the exact amounts I need.
Jessika
I can’t wait to try it! I want to make it 1 1/2 weeks before Halloween for my sons class, but I don’t want it to go bad. Do you know how long it will last if I make it in advance?
littlebins
Sorry for the late reply. I am not positive how long it will last but certainly we have had ours for a week. I am doing a test now.
Erin
Can any of these slimes be preserved and re-played with? If so what kind of sealed container would work best?
littlebins
I have used a regular old dollar store tupperware container and have kept our current one for four weeks now!
littlebins
Reusable plastic containers are perfect. Ours last for a month unless they get really dirty.
Kaitlyn
I wanted to let you know that I love your unique slime idea, and I am linking to it in my post publishing tomorrow morning. http://freshlymessy.com/two-valuable-ways-to-expand-a-preschoolers-vocabulary-without-reading/ While I didn’t use the exact same recipe or idea, I wanted to include your website as I find it a valuable supplemental idea to my post. Is it okay with you for me to link to you? If you’d rather me not share your content, please let me know so that I may remove it appropriately: [email protected]
littlebins
Yes of course!Thank you.