I’ve read that everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, so we show show our lucky side with awesome homemade slime. Our last name is Irish, so of course we had to make a St Patrick’s Day green glitter slime this year. Our homemade slime is a fun activity for science and sensory play all in one!
HOW TO MAKE ST PATRICK’S DAY GREEN SLIME!
HOW TO MAKE SLIME
Kids love to play with homemade slime in their favorite slime colors! Slime making is even more fun when you add in a St Patrick’s Day theme with confetti and glitter. We have quite a few quick and easy St Patrick’s Day activities to share, and we are always adding more!
Slime making is a serious matter with kids, and I know everyone is looking for the best slime recipes around. Our Green Glitter Slime for St Patrick’s Day 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 easy 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 Liquid Starch Slime recipe. Slime with liquid starch is one of our favorite sensory play recipes! We make it ALL the time because it is so quick and easy to whip up. Three simple ingredients {one is water} are all you need. Add color, glitter, sequins, and then you are done!
Click below to get your quick and easy STEM challenges.
A variety of new activities, which are engaging and not too long!
Where do I buy liquid starch?
We pick up our liquid starch in the grocery store! Check the laundry detergent aisle and look for the bottles marked starch. Ours is Linit Starch (brand). You might also see Sta-Flo as a popular option. You can also find it on Amazon, Walmart, Target, and even craft stores.
But what if I don’t have liquid starch available to me?
This is a pretty common question from those who live outside of the United States, and we do have some alternatives to share with you. Click on the link to see if any of these will work! Our saline solution slime recipe also works well for Australian, Canadian and UK readers.
Now if you don’t want to use liquid starch, you can absolutely test out one of our other basic recipes using saline solution 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 ingredients basic glitter slime recipe.
THE SCIENCE OF GREEN GLITTER 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…
GREEN GLITTER 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 of Clear Or White PVA School Glue
- 1/4 Cup of Liquid Starch
- 1/2 Cup of Water
- Food coloring, confetti, glitter, and other fun mix-ins
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HOW TO MAKE GREEN GLITTER SLIME:
STEP 1: In a bowl mix 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup of glue (mix well to combine completely).
STEP 2: Now’s the time to add (color, glitter, or confetti)! 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 and confetti and color into the glue and water mixture.
STEP 3: Pour in 1/4 cup of liquid starch. You will see the slime immediately start to form. Keep stirring until you have a gooey blob of slime. The liquid should be gone!
STEP 4: 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 MAKING TIP: We always recommend kneading your slime well after mixing. Kneading the slime really helps to improve its consistency. The trick with liquid starch slime is to put a few drops of the liquid starch 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 liquid starch reduces the stickiness, and it will eventually create a stiffer slime.
You will love how easy and stretchy this St Patricks Day 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 the slime breaking?
STORING YOUR ST PATRICK’S DAY 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 I have listed in my recommended slime supplies list.
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.
We have the best resources to look through before, during, and after making your leprechaun slime! Make sure to go back and read the slime science above too!
CHECK OUT MORE FUN SLIME IDEAS FOR ST PATRICK’S DAY!
St Patrick’s Day Green Slime Recipe
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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EASY TO MAKE GREEN GLITTER SLIME RECIPE!
If you are looking for more easy St Patrick’s Day activities, click below!
Click below to get your quick and easy STEM challenges.
A variety of new activities, which are engaging and not too long!
bella
March 11, 2015 at 1:18 amCool stuff…cant wait to try it
Shannon
February 26, 2016 at 7:01 amWhat great Slime for St. Patrick’s Day! Thanks for allowing me to share in my St. Patrick’s Day roundup 🙂
Linda P Douglas
March 4, 2017 at 9:01 pmThis is a difficult website to get a recipe from. Is the recipe in one of the highlighted links or is it below ?Neither sometimes so it’s a huge time waster. you scroll and scroll through heaps of ads and photos that lead you nowhere. There is not a clear place to click to get a recipe, there is so much highlighted that it’s a time waster. if you do a download, you’re taken on a commercial journey through all kinds of sites. All I want is the recipe for each type of slime. Is that so hard? isn’t that what this site is meant to be about?? And when you click on a recipe, it STILL doesn’t give you that> this is too commercial especially since this is purporting to be a site for kids to learn stuff. So frustrating.
littlebins
March 5, 2017 at 8:49 amPlease click on the black box where it says get your slime recipe here. We use one main recipe for our themed slimes.
https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/liquid-starch-slime-easy-sensory-play-recipe/