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Slime Lab Recipe (for Science Show)

PRE-GIG PREP

SUPPLIES
  • Power drill with paint mixer
  • Measuring spoons
  • Five clear waterbottles (24 oz each)
PRODUCTS
  • One 1 gallon school glue
  • Crayola washable water colors
  • One 12 oz bottle of baking soda
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Add 24 oz glue to the measuring cup
  2. Using a popsicle stick, take a tab of watercolor out of the tube and add to the glue (glue should stay semi-transparent)
  3. Begin mixing with power drill
  4. While mixing, slowly add 3 Tbsp baking soda until fully blended
  5. Pour glue mixture into one waterbottles and seal tightly
  6. Repeat 5 times with various colors (until you’ve used basically all of the gallon of glue)

AT GIG

KIT CHECK-LIST
  • Glue solution in waterbottles (1 water bottle per 20 kids)
  • Saline solution (1 bottle per 12 kids)
  • Popsicle sticks (1 per kid)
  • 2oz cups (1 per kid)
SLIME LAB PREP
  1. Place out 2oz cups, tops, and popsicle sticks within kids’ reach (1 of each per kid)
  2. Place saline solution within kids’ reach (1 bottle per 12 kids)
  3. Place squirt bottles of glue close to you and out of kids’ reach

SLIME LAB RUNNING

Children should form a line (like face painting or balloon twisting) and with adult help, follow these steps:

  1. Kid takes cup, top, and and popsicle stick
  2. Kid chooses glue solution color
  3. While kid holds cup, you place 1oz of glue into the 2oz cup (their “job” is to hold the cup steady)
  4. Next, the kid can pick: “Which job would you like: would you like to squirt the saline solution or mix the slime?”
  5. Help child to mix while adding saline solution.
  6. Add Saline and mix until saline solution no longer incorporates and the slime no longer sticks to anything other than itself. (Touch test.)

FOR OFFICE REFERENCE

ORIGINAL RECIPE
  • 12oz glue
  • 1.5 Tbsp
  • Saline until no longer sticky
COST BREAKDOWN PER KID
  • Saline $0.30
  • Cups $0.04
  • Glue $0.20
  • Baking soda $0.01
  • TOTAL $0.55/slime cup
  • (60 kids = $33/hr in product)