Making Slime!

I have a cute, fun craft to share with you.  A friend sent this one to me with instructions for making "pumpkin" slime.  It was easy and Alaina and Ruby said it was the best craft ever.

To make this, you need shaving cream, Elmers glue, saline solution, baking soda and food coloring.  But before we made the slime, we made cute little jars to put it in.

I found little glass jars with lids, and the girls used paint pens to paint jack-o-lantern faces on them.

They practiced on a paper plate, and then put it on the jar.

Then came the fun part!

4 cups of shaving cream in a bowl

Then mix in 1/2 cup white glue.  Once it's mixed, add orange food coloring till it's the color you want.

Then add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda

and last - 1 tablespoon saline or contact solution. This is what makes it become slime.  Add more saline solution as needed until it comes off the side of the bowl and becomes ball like and sticks together.

It gets really stretchy!

As you work with it, the air bubbles go away and it gets smaller in size.

It didn't all fit in the jars, they each took home a zip lock bag too.
Now they have plans to make it in green for Christmas, and blue with glitter for winter.  
It's a little messy, but not bad and well worth it for the fun they had!