If you are looking for the best easy slime recipes kids love you’ve come to the right place! Because we’ve gathered 50 of the best slime recipes for kids right here. Did you have any idea before this week that schools will let kids take slime into the classroom for tactical sensory input?
I didn’t even realize slime was a huge trend among tweens and teens until I found out that my sister was struggling to find white glue in the huge town where she lives so that her tween could make slime with her friends this weekend! There is a glue shortage – because kids are going crazy over slime. Even Amazon is having trouble keeping up with demand!
And with good reason. Slime is an ooey, gooey, sticky, sensory delight that kids have been playing with for ages. The best kids slime recipe can actually help your child focus on his schoolwork or calm down from a tantrum — and it’s fun too!
Slime Recipes without Glue
Given the white glue shortage, now is the perfect time to play around with slime recipes without glue for your kids. If you don’t want to use glue in your slime you actually have some really good options in these recipes using saline, eye drops, play dough, conditioner, and other non-glue options.
Glowing Fluorescent Slime recipe with no glue!
This Safe Slime is glue-free and a fun-to-make homemade slime recipe.
Make slime recipe awesomeness with this cool RAINBOW Kool-Aid Slime.
This Glue-Free Oobleck Recipe from Hip Homeschool Moms is the best slime recipe for big batches!
A different take on Glow-In-The-Dark Oobleck — another way to make things glow and this cool slime recipe shows us how without glue.
Another Slime That Glows Recipe without glue!
Truly Edible Slime Recipes without Glue
These EPIC Slime Cupcakes will be the hit of your party for sure — can we say cool-mom-of-the-year-award???
Another Fantastic Edible Slime recipe without glue — it’s made with taffy. Very cool!
Edible Chia Slime in a ginormous amount!
Edible Sludge Slime made from gelatin. Very cool slime recipe.
Here’s a video recipe for edible MARSHMALLOW Slime:
Truly Edible Chocolate Slime — oh we have to try this!
And another slime video for Edible Chocolate Slime
A Galaxy Slime Recipe
Another chance to make slime recipe awesomeness would be this Galaxy Slime Recipe. It’s a slime recipe kids love because of all the shiny sparkles! And it’s one of several slime recipes without glue, which is what it seems like everyone is looking for right now!
This Simple Galaxy Slime Recipe anyone can make is another take that is not glue-free but super fun!
Easy Slime Recipes Kids Love
This TWO INGREDIENT SLIME is an awesome easy slime recipe kids can make themselves. I think all of the recipes in this post are easy, but this one takes the cake!
This recipe for equal parts of three ingredients is easy to remember and makes a slightly thicker slime called Gak that kids love.
This simple LEGO Slime is similar and fun with LEGO heads.
If you want to make homemade slime recipe goodness that calms your child down, this Calming Slime includes a surprising ingredient that I just have to try now!
Super Stretchy Slime makes kids happy and is only three ingredients!
Super Simple Winter Slime Recipe a Preschool Child Can Make is perfect for your little ones who want in on the SLIME MADNESS!
Polka Dot Slime – adorable and fun with three ingredients!
Three Ingredient Fluffy Puffy Slime that looks amazing – like clouds!
Slime Recipes with Experiments and Learning Activities
This LEGO Slime Experiment includes a very easy slime recipe kids can make and then play with LEGO bricks!
Magnetic Slime. I had no idea! I mean, really? This is so cool.
If your kids are into comparison and science, this post compares two different cool slime recipes!
Secret Ingredient Slime, also known as Diaper Slime, is so cool! And it’s kinda sciencey too.
Slime Science with Ivory Soap is so fun — and we have some upstairs from another science experiment so this is what you see in all of the pictures of Caleb playing with slime in this post.
Color Changing Slime — How cool is that? My kids will be amazed by this!
The Best Cool Slime Recipes
This Sand Slime Recipe is a very cool kids slime recipe. It would never have occurred to me to make slime out of sand!
If your kids love sparkle, this Ocean Slime Recipe is perfect sparkly slime.
Glow-In-The-Dark Slime probably wins my kids’ favorite award for cool slime recipes. I had no idea you could do this!
See-Through Slime is a kids slime recipe made with clear glue instead of white glue. What a neat effect!
A different Ocean Slime Recipe with colorful glitter.
Another Super Stretchy Slime made with Eye Drops.
Jungle Slime — the different colors in this one are very cool!
What makes this Red-Hot Slime Recipe so cool is that it smells amazing!
Borax Free Slime or Gak — made with shampoo!
Bump the coolness factor up a notch with your tweens when you make Kids Snot Slime.
Unicorn Poop Slime might be my most favorite name for slime in the whole world — and it’s so pretty too! It reminds me of the Squatty Potty Unicorn video that was on Facebook for a while.
Unicorn Snot Slime — complete with labels this recipe is sure to please, especially if you are having a unicorn party!
Saline Slime gives the slime a little different texture for fun variety!
Jiggling Jelly Fish Slime is a literacy activity using slime as the key fun factor!
Beautiful GOLD SLIME will make your sparkle-loving people happy!
This super sparkly Valentine’s Day Slime could be adapted to make friend-gifts at Christmas too!
Laundry Detergent Slime for the U.K. (Also nicknamed England Slime, which I thought was very cute!)
Creepy Slime Recipes Kids Love
This cool Spider Slime recipe is perfect for spring because as you walk through the woods right now spider babies are floating everywhere!
For those of you who live in the U.K. you’ll love this monster slime recipe using ingredients you can find the U.K.!
Magical Monster Slime is very fun for monster-loving kids!
Googly Eye Slime is a little creepy which means my boys are going to love it!
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