Our collection of easy to make Valentines Day slime recipes is really growing this year! In preparation for our new book coming out very soon called the Ultimate Slime Guide, we have been having a blast creating, testing, and loving our amazing slime recipes like this Valentines Day Crunchy Slime Recipe. We think Valentine’s Day is the perfect holiday to add a little slime too. We also have some fun printable labels all the way at the end!

FUN VALENTINES DAY CRUNCHY SLIME RECIPE FOR KIDS!

We really have a super line up of Valentine’s Day theme slimes to try this year! From glitter filled to giant fluffy or, foam filled.  use our ideas exactly or use them to spark your own imaginative ideas for creating a one of a kind Valentines Day slime!

Super fun and easy to make, our slime also makes a nice candy free treat to hand out to friends and family. You will find fun printable slime labels at the very end.

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MORE PRINTABLE VALENTINES DAY CARDS HERE

VALENTINES CHEMISTRY ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

Check out our homemade Valentine’s Day slime video. Although it doesn’t show the addition of the crunchy fishbowl beads, it shows the same recipe we used. I will share the links to the supplies below as well.

MAKING YOUR VALENTINES DAY CRUNCHY 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.

This crunchy slime uses our saline solution slime recipe.

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.

VALENTINES DAY CRUNCHY SLIME SUPPLIES

Clear Washable PVA School Glue (see recommended supplies or Amazon referral links below)

Water

Baking Soda

Saline Solution (must contain sodium borate and boric acid)

Food Coloring

Fishbowl Crunchy Beads (red or clear or whatever color you want to make)

Plastic Hearts (optional, found these at the dollar store or craft store)

RECIPE: We used the saline solution slime recipe here but you can also use the liquid starch slime recipe! Click on the big black boxes below to see each recipe and what works best for you. Crunchy beads are considered a mix-in like glitter! Check out our original crunchy slime recipe here.

Also check out all the black click here boxes at the very bottom for all our slime making resources and tips. We love making slime and want to show you how easy it is to make too!

I love the pack of fishbowl beads and foam beads that I have shown above because we love to make homemade floam slime too. Check out the Valentines Day theme floam slime here. We used the foam beads from this pack! Plus we used the containers to pack up this slime to give to friends.

Here are the two best recipes to make this slime. Each recipe has full instructions and its own video! I highly suggest you become familiar with our 4 basic slime recipes. Then you can easily make so many fun themes!

 

 

 

 

THE SCIENCE BEHIND VALENTINES DAY CRUNCHY 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.

The addition of water is important to this process. Think about when you leave a gob of glue out, and you find it hard and rubbery the next day.The water helps the strands or molecules slide more easily over themselves creating cool ooze!

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!

Read more about slime science here!

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!

STORING YOUR SLIME

I get a lot of questions regarding how I store my slime. Usually we use a reusable container either plastic or glass. If you keep your slime clean it will last for several weeks. And…if you forget to store your slime in a container, it does actually last a few days uncovered. If the top gets crusty just fold it into itself.

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. For large groups we have used condiment containers as seen here.

HOMEMADE VALENTINES DAY CRUNCHY SLIME RECIPE KIDS LOVE!

We hope you have a blast with this suer simple slime recipe. Happy slime making and experimenting,

Sarah and Liam

 

MORE SLIME MAKING RESOURCES AND SCIENCE ACTIVITIES.

Did you know we also have fun with  science activities too? Click on all the black boxes below to learn more.

Use the black download box below to get your free copy of these labels! If you need the labels to be smaller, adjust the percentages on your print options! We have another round slime label option here.