Don’t have any snow yet? Make your own winter fun with our super easy homemade fake snow slime recipe. You can use our most popular liquid starch and white glue slime recipe with an extra {not so} secret ingredient! We love our winter snow slime recipe ideas!
Fake Snow Slime Recipe
Make a huge pile of puffy snow slime for awesome science and really neat tactile sensory play. Learn about polymers and fluids while playing with extremely cool snow slime that’s so easy to make! Is it a liquid or a solid. Why does the sticky glue turn into a thick slime?
Slime Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup liquid starch {laundry detergent aisle}
- 1/2 cup white PVA school glue
- 1/2 cup water
- Fake Snow
The best time to add your fake snow is when you have completed mixing the water and glue together. We added about half a small package. Give it a stir and add the mixture to the liquid starch. Have fun!
Instructions:
STEP 1: In a bowl add 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup glue and mix well to combine completely.
STEP 2: Now’s the time to add your fake snow. We added about half a small package.
Where can you get fake snow? You can get it from the dollar store or craft store.
STEP 3: Pour in 1/4 cup of liquid starch and stir well.
You will see the slime immediately start to form and pull away from the sides of the bowl. 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 change.
SLIME MAKING TIP: The trick with liquid starch slime is to put a few drops of the liquid starch onto your hands before picking up the slime. However, keep in mind that although adding more liquid starch reduces the stickiness, and it will eventually create a stiffer slime.
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Slime Science
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.
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!
More Fun Winter Activities For Kids
- White Fluffy Snow Slime
- Build a LEGO Winter Tree
- Winter Secret Coding Pictures
- Watercolor Snowflake Painting
- Snowflake Winter Slime
- DIY Luminaries
Printable Winter Slime Project Pack
- Easy to follow slime recipes for fluffy slime, borax slime, liquid starch slime, and saline solution slime.
- Fun winter-theme slime recipes for extra creative slime time!
- Combine slime and math with easy-to-use printable sheets for hands-on learning.
- Find fun ways to experiment with slime science, including science information and essential vocabulary words.
- Cool slimy theme activities perfect for centers, early finishers, or classroom party time!
Made this tonight. The little styrofoam balls give it such a cool texture. I know my preschoolers are going to love it! Thanks! I just love your site!
Awesome! So glad to hear.