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 Patricks Day slime recipe this year. Our St Patricks Day slime is a fun activity for science and sensory play all in one!
ST PATRICKS DAY SLIME RECIPE AND SCIENCE ACTIVITY!
Making slimes for holidays is a really fun idea for kids, but it is also a great chemistry lesson too. Read more about the science behind the slime here. It’s great for introducing young kids to polymers and chemistry!
We also made fluffy slime for St Patricks Day!
MY LATEST VIDEOSMAKING YOUR ST PATRICKS DAY 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.
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, 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!
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!
ST PATRICK DAY SLIME RECIPE SUPPLIES
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Washable Non Toxic Clear washable Glue
Washable Elmer’s Washable Non Toxic Glue
Liquid Starch
Water
Green food coloring
Measuring Cups and Spoons
Bowls and Spoons
St Patricks Day Confetti
Gold Glitter
CHOOSE YOUR SLIME RECIPE!
Each of our four basic slime recipes form which all out holiday slimes are based have their own complete slime making page, so I don’t have to repeat it all each time! Check out each of the recipes below.
You can check out the supplies if you want to try a different recipe and you can watch a video of each slime being made. Each recipe will also have full instructions.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE ST PATRICKS DAY 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.
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!
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!
Read more about slime science here!
WANT TO MAKE GOLD SLIME FOR ST PATRICKS DAY TOO?
We tried out two different gold slimes. The first gold slime uses our traditional recipe. Again, it’s super easy and quick to make like our St Patricks Day slime above!
We also tried out a glittery gold slime which has a really unique texture that is quite silky. We really enjoyed the difference between the two.
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Rainbow Slime
Our St Patricks Day slime recipe was the first thing my son asked if we were going to make when I told him St. Patrick’s day was in March!
All of our St Patricks Day slime recipes are unique! There’s a bit of a texture difference between the white glue and the clear glue slime recipes. The clear glue slimes are thicker but the white glue slimes are a bit oozier! It’s fun to play with both for sure!
HERE’S SOME 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!
Did you know we also have fun with science activities too? We also love to experiment with all kinds of simple to set up science experiments and STEM activities. Click on all the black boxes below to learn more.
If you are looking for more St Patricks Day theme science and STEM activities, click on the pictures below!
bella says
Cool stuff…cant wait to try it
Shannon says
What great Slime for St. Patrick’s Day! Thanks for allowing me to share in my St. Patrick’s Day roundup 🙂
Linda P Douglas says
This 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 says
Please 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/