Taste science with an easy edible slime recipe. Summer STEAM Camp continues with cool edible slime that’s also messy sensory play. Just a few common kitchen ingredients and you can make gooey edible slime. We love homemade slimes but have never made one that’s edible. This slime recipe does not contain metamucil, but it does have a good amount of sugar!

Taste Science with Edible Slime for Summer STEAM

 

I don’t tend to like edible play materials and don’t make them often. Our Ice Cream in a Bag experiment however was a yummy science experiment. Certainly if you need taste safe recipes for kids who are still testing with their mouths. There’s nothing healthy about our edible slime and we didn’t find it all that tasty, but it is certainly taste safe from simple ingredients! We added lime juice for a little extra taste. I found the initial recipe at Sci-Borg Projects. We made two versions. The edible slime below is a goo like substance and the next more like a fake snot! Cool science!

Ingredients for edible slime:

Knox Unflavored Gelatin, 3 packs

Corn Syrup

Water

Food coloring and or flavoring

We tested the recipe for gelatin slime a few times. No matter you end up with, this gelatin slime is slimey and fun for kids and adults too. We mixed the boiling water and gelatin packets along with green food coloring. Mix the gelatin into the water slowly, but it will still form a few clumps. Then we added in a 1/4 cup of corn syrup. While mixing the gelatin and water, we added a little color and a little lime juice. We weren’t quite sure what it would taste like.

Also try our popular homemade slime recipe {not taste safe}

This is messy science. Check out our basic slime slime science about polymers . Although this is made with gelatin, the mixture of water and gelatin still makes a polymer. The proteins in the gelatin combined with the corn syrup to form gooey strands that resemble slime and even fake snot. Playing around with the amount of corn syrup you use will change the texture. The more corn syrup added the longer the strands will be and the more it will resemble fake snot. The less corn syrup you use the more glob like and chunky it becomes. This edible gelatin slime is half way between. Play around with different amounts of corn syrup to check out different textures.

Another great slime that’s a bit messy is our Ivory Soap Slime.

This gelatin slime is certainly a science activity for the senses. Yes, you can taste it. I did and it was ok but not something to chow down on which was fine by me. My son and husband were unwilling to try it but happily watched me eat a piece. Remember this is simple unflavored gelatin {like jello} with corn syrup {sugar} mixed together. Add any flavor you want or leave as is for cool gelatin slime.

Taste some cool science with our gelatin slime.

Make sure to check out the fake snot variation that you can still taste! Ewww

 

 

Make sure to check out the other cool STEM ideas for taste science

Babble Dabble Do – Color Theory Chocolate

What Do We Do All Day – Ice Cream in a Bag

Pink Stripey Socks – Make Your Own “Exploding” Chocolate Candy

One Time Through – Easy Seedy CD Art and Science

 

 

More science to check out this summer, click photos.

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