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Family Friday: Slime Activity

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For this week’s Family Friday, we will do a science activity. Using the Physical Science and Engineering Series, students will build their science skills. Students will then have a lab of their own – making slime! Read our step-by-step guide on how you can do this interactive slime activity with your students at home!

What you need:

  • ½ cup Water
  • ½ cup Clear Elmer’s Glue
  • Food Color
  • 1 tsp. Baking Soda
  • 1 Tbsp. Saline Solution
  • Stirring Spoon
  • Mixing Bowl

Step 1

Open up your Footsteps2Brilliance App, and go to Level 3 (Blue). In your library, find the Physical Science and Engineering book series. Read as many books as you like!

Step 2

Mix ½ cup of water and ½ cup of clear glue in a mixing bowl. Mix until smooth.

Ask: Is the water a solid, liquid, or gas? When I mix the glue into the water, does it become a solid, liquid, or gas?

Step 3

Sir in 10+ drops of food color to your water/glue mixture. To create a turquoise color add 10 drops of blue and 7 drops of green food color to the mixing bowl. You can also add glitter at this point.

Ask: Is the food color a solid, liquid, or gas?

Step 4

Add 1 teaspoon of baking soda to the mixture. It is important to mix thoroughly so that it is not clumpy. 

Ask: Is the baking soda a solid, liquid, or gas? What will happen to the mixture when I add the baking soda?

Step 5

Add 1 Tablespoon of Saline Solution to the mixture. It is important to mix the Saline Solution into the mixture very quickly.

Ask: Is the Saline Solution a solid, liquid, or gas? What happened to the mixture when I added the Saline Solution? 

Step 6

Use your hands to knead the mixture together until it forms a slime consistency (thick, but not solid). The slime should be sticky, but should also hold a shape.

Ask: Is slime a solid, liquid, or both?

Enjoyed this interactive slime actvitiy? Find more Family Friday STEM and literacy activities here.

Looking for this activity en español? Click here for the Spanish version of the Physical Sciences and Engineering books and blog.

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