What do leprechauns love more than rainbows and gold? They love our homemade slime of course! 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. If you want to learn how to make homemade slime any time of the year, read on. You’ll be an expert slime maker by the time you are through!
ST PATRICK’S DAY GREEN SLIME RECIPE FOR KIDS!
EASY GREEN SLIME FOR ST PATRICK’S DAY
All little leprechauns will love this St Patrick’s Day Green Slime! Learning how to make slime is much simpler than you might think. This leprechaun theme slime is perfectly festive for special occasions. We love our St Patrick’s Day activities!
Pots For Slime
Little black pots are a great addition to your slime accessories collection. You can see how we use these little pots in making our fluffy slime too. We also use these pots for a few of our favorite St Patrick’s Day science activities too.
Slime making is even more fun when you add in creative themes for special occasion days like St Patrick’s Day. We have quite a few slime ideas to share, and we are always adding more. Our homemade St Patrick’s Day Green Slime Recipe is yet another AMAZING slime recipe we can show you how to make.
Oh and slime is science too, so don’t miss the great information on the science behind this cool slime below. Watch our awesome slime videos and see how easy it is to make the best slime!
BASIC SLIME RECIPES
All of our holiday, seasonal, and everyday slimes use one of five basic slime recipes that are super easy to make! We make slime all the time, and these have become our go-to favorite slime recipes!
I will always let you know which basic slime 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 ingredients depending on what you have on hand for slime supplies.
Here we use our Saline Solution Slime recipe. Slime with saline solution is one of our favorite sensory play recipes! We make it ALL the time because it is so quick and easy to whip up. Four simple ingredients {one is water} are all you need. Add color, glitter, sequins, and then you are done!
Where do I buy saline solution?
We pick up our saline solution in the grocery store! You can also find it on Amazon, Walmart, Target, and even at your pharmacy.
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 borax powder. We have tested all these recipes with equal success!
NOTE: We have found that Elmer’s specialty glues tend to be a bit stickier than Elmer’s regular clear or white glue, and so for this type of glue we always prefer our 2 ingredient basic glitter slime recipe.
HOST A SLIME MAKING PARTY AT HOME OR SCHOOL!
I always thought slime was too difficult to make, but then I tried it! Now we are hooked on it. Grab some saline solution and PVA glue and get started! We have even made slime with a small group of kids for a slime party! This slime recipe below also makes a great slime to use in the classroom!
FREE St. Patrick’s Day SLIME CHALLENGE mini pack!
THE SCIENCE OF ST PATRICK’S DAY GREEN 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 form 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…
ST PATRICK’S DAY SLIME RECIPE
I always encourage my readers to read through our recommended slime supplies list and How To Fix Slime Guide before making slime for the first time. Learning how to stock your pantry with the best slime ingredients is easy!
YOU WILL NEED:
- 1/2 cup Clear PVA School Glue
- 1 tablespoon Saline Solution (must contain boric acid and sodium borate)
- 1/2 cup of Water
- 1/4-1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- Glitter
- Confetti
- Gold Coins
- Black Pots
- Food coloring
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FREE St. Patrick’s Day SLIME CHALLENGE mini pack!
HOW TO MAKE GREEN SLIME:
STEP 1: In a bowl mix 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup of glue together to combine completely.
STEP 2: Now’s the time to add your green food coloring, and gold or green glitter! Remember when you add color to white glue, the color will be lighter. Use clear glue for jewel toned colors!
You can never add too much glitter! Mix the glitter, sequins and color into the glue and water mixture.
STEP 3: Stir in 1/4- 1/2 tsp baking soda.
Baking soda helps to firm and form the slime. You can play around with how much you add but we prefer between 1/4 and 1/2 tsp per batch. I get asked all the time why do you need baking soda for slime. Baking soda helps to improve the firmness of the slime. You can experiment with your own ratios!
STEP 4: Mix in 1 tbsp saline solution and stir until slime forms and pulls away from sides of the bowl. This is exactly how much you will need with the Target Sensitive Eyes brand, but other brands may differ slightly!
If your slime still feels too sticky, you may need a few more drops of saline solution. As I mentioned above, start by squirting a few drops of the solution onto your hands and kneading your slime longer. You can always add but you can’t take away. Saline solution is preferred over contact solution.
STEP 5: Start kneading your slime! It will appear stringy at first but just work it around with your hands and you will notice the consistency changes. You can also put it in a clean container and set it aside for 3 minutes, and you will also notice the change in consistency!
SLIME TIP: We always recommend kneading your slime well after mixing. Kneading the slime really helps to improve it’s consistency. The trick with this slime is to put a few drops of the saline soluti9n 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 activator (saline solution) reduces the stickiness, and it will eventually create a stiffer slime.
You will love how easy and stretchy this green slime is to make, and play with too! Once you have your desired slime consistency, time to have fun! How big of a stretch can you get without your slime breaking?
STORING YOUR GREEN 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. 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.
CHECK OUT MORE FUN ST PATRICK’S DAY IDEAS
Free St Patrick’s Day Printables
St Patrick’s Day Math Worksheets
St Patrick’s Day Cards: STEM Challenges
Leprechaun Trap Mini Garden Activity
MORE SLIME MAKING RESOURCES!
You will find everything you ever wanted to know about making homemade slime right here, and if you have questions, just ask me!
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WATCH OUR AMAZING SLIME VIDEOS
THE AMAZING BENEFITS THAT COME OUT OF SLIME MAKING WITH KIDS!
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FREE St. Patrick’s Day SLIME CHALLENGE mini pack!
COOL GREEN SLIME RECIPE FOR ST PATRICK’S DAY FUN!
Try more fun St Patrick’s Day activities right here. Click on the link or on the image below.
Hi. I’m doing a science fair and I want to do slime. My testable question is “ does sta-flo or tide affect the stickiness if slime affect it on different surfaces
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Hi,
Thank you so much for the plethora of wonderful STEM/STEAM experiences for children that you have created. I have purchased many and look forward to the new information to come.
As an Early Childhood Educator, teaching a group of 18 PreK children with my co-teacher, I am always striving to learn.
However, I wanted to point out an error in spelling. In your St. Patrick’s Day STEM Pack, specifically the Green Carnation Challenge, the title is written “DIE A CARNATION GREEN CHALLENGE”. The word “die”, which means “of a person, animal, or plant, stops living” and should be spelled DYE, “a natural or synthetic substance used to add a color to or change the color of something”. I am assuming that this was a oversight, and I wanted to make sure you knew.
Once again, thank you so much for all that you do. I really enjoy your effort to support the education of young children.
Sincerely,
Linda Oxman
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