Making Slimes with Light Plasticine Yourself

You can make many beautiful and amazing crafts from plasticine: animals, birds, trees, people, fruits and many other figures. But with the help of additional materials, children can make an interesting toy - slime. Slime from plasticine is made very quickly and easily.

Advantages and features of plasticine slimes

Airy plasticine is the ideal material for making elastic fluffy slime.

Advantages of plasticine slime:

• Does not stick to hard or soft surfaces or to hands.
• Long lasting.
• Strong but flexible. Stretchable but does not tear.
• Cheap ingredients that are easy to buy at any store.
• Various recipes.

Children will love making slime with their own hands. This activity develops fine motor skills and imagination, teaches diligence and lifts the mood.

Ingredients for making slime

You need to buy soft plasticine, not the usual hard one. It is sold in stationery stores and in the departments of goods for children's creativity. In addition to airy plasticine, you need to prepare other ingredients, without which the toy will not work.

Ingredients:

• PVA glue - do not use glue with an expired shelf life;
• water - so that the slime stretches easily and is transparent;
• food coloring or gouache;
• sodium tetraborate is an excellent thickener and antiseptic used to treat wounds and bedsores;
• silicate glue (office);
• shampoo;
• shower gel;
• contact lens fluid;
• baking soda;
• starch;
• washing gel;
• shaving foam;
• Gelatin - allows the slime to retain its shape (optional).

The ingredients needed to make the toy are easy to obtain and inexpensive.

Is it possible to make slime from regular plasticine?

For the craft, you need to choose only soft plasticine. Slime from regular plasticine will turn out too dense and steep, and then it will not be a lizun, but a ball.

If you don't have any airy plasticine at hand, you can use regular hard plasticine. It needs to be softened: knead it with your hands, and then pour boiling water on it. After a couple of minutes, the material will become soft and pliable.

Vegetable and wax plasticine are good for making slimes. They are kneaded with hands and a little water is added.

Ways to Make Slime at Home

There are many different interesting recipes for making slime at home. Many people like to experiment and create several toys at once from different ingredients. Every schoolchild can learn how to make slime from light plasticine.

Slime made from Play-Doh and office glue

Play Doh is designed to create flexible figures, so you can make great slime from it.

What you will need for work:

• Play Doh - 2 jars;
• sodium tetraborate, boric acid or lens solution;
• silicate glue;
• soda;
• shaving foam;
• a rich lotion or body oil.

Step by step instructions:

1. Take a deep ceramic bowl and put Play-Doh into it.
2. Pour some office glue into a bowl so that it covers the Play Doh.
3. Add a little fatty lotion or oil and mix everything thoroughly with an aluminum spoon.
4. Apply a thin layer of shaving foam and stir.
5. Dissolve a pinch of soda in sodium tetraborate or boric acid. Add a drop of this mixture and stir. These drops should be added until the mass stops sticking to the bowl. On average, you have to add 5-6 portions.
6. Stir the mixture thoroughly and for a long time until all the lumps disappear.

The reward for your work will be a soft and flexible slime of a matte shade. It sticks a little to surfaces, but leaves no marks.

Recipe using baking soda at home

Soda (additive E500, sodium bicarbonate) is an ideal leavening agent, so it is widely used in cooking. Due to its properties, it will be very useful for homemade slime.

An interesting and unusual toy can be made from ball plasticine. This is a special type of this material, which consists of multi-colored foam balls and glue. It will make an original crunchy slime (crunchy slime). In addition to soda, you will need two types of glue at once - silicate and PVA.

Materials needed:

• ball plasticine - 2 jars of 20 grams each;
• soda;
• PVA glue - 45 g;
• office glue - 45 g;
• water;
• boric acid;
• sodium tetraborate;
• transparent film mask.

Master class on making:

1. Pour both glues into a cup and mix them well.
2. Pour 2 tablespoons of water and add 1 teaspoon of soda.
3. Pour 1 tablespoon of sodium tetraborate.
4. Mix everything thoroughly so that the mixture can easily come off the sides of the cup.
5. Separately mix two jars of ball plasticine to get a mass of one color without streaks.
6. Make a thin flat cake out of plasticine and pour the prepared adhesive mixture onto it.
7. If the slime is too sticky, add a film mask and some water to the mixture. Then mix soda with boric acid and add it to the mixture.
8. The mixture must be stirred for a long time until it reaches a homogeneous consistency.

It's so easy to make a slightly transparent slime with colorful balls inside. This toy not only changes shape, but also crunches.

How to Make Slime with Plasticine, PVA Glue and Starch

For a simple but original recipe you will need the following ingredients:

• potato or corn starch - 2 tablespoons;
• PVA glue - 50 g;
• Play Doh - 1 jar;
• water - 2 tablespoons;
• sodium tetraborate;
• shampoo;
• hand cream;
• glitter or beads.

Progress of work:

1. Pour the glue into a cup and add starch. Mix thoroughly until smooth.
2. Add hand cream and mix again.
3. Pour shampoo and water into another cup and whisk the mixture until foam appears.
4. Combine the contents of two cups and stir.
5. Add sodium tetraborate drop by drop. Stir the mixture after each drop. Continue until the thick mixture separates from the sides of the cup.
6. Add plasticine and mix everything again. At the very end, add glitter or sparkles.

The child will have a shiny, airy slime in his hands, which he can play with for a long time.

Slime made from glue and airy plasticine

A simple but beautiful slime can be easily made from:

• Play Doh jars;
• PVA glue - 80 ml;
• sodium tetraborate.

How to make slime from airy plasticine:

1. Chop the modeling mixture and place the pieces in a plate.
2. Pour in the glue and stir.
3. Add sodium tetraborate drop by drop and stir constantly.

Air with shampoo

Shampoo makes the slime fluffier, so this ingredient plays an important role in the work. Many children like to make butter slime. The word "butter" means "oil": this slime easily changes shape and stretches well.

Ingredients:

• shampoo - 1 tablespoon;
• Play Doh air plasticine - 50 g;
• silicate glue;
• sodium tetraborate;
• water;
• shaving foam;
• baby cream.

Step by step instructions:

1. Knead the plasticine and mix in some office glue and water.
2. Add a spoonful of shampoo and stir the mixture thoroughly.
3. Add sodium tetraborate in several stages: 0.5 teaspoon in several portions. After each portion, knead the mass. This ingredient is put into the workpiece until it peels off the walls.
4. Mix shaving foam and baby cream.

Without cream, you will get a slime with a matte shade. Cream will give it a light glossy shine.

Slime Recipes Without Glue

Slime from light plasticine can be made even without glue. For this you will need:

• plasticine - 100 g;
• water;
• shampoo - 2 teaspoons;
• shaving foam - 3 tablespoons.

Recipe:

1. Knead the plasticine, place it in a bowl and let it dry.
2. Add water, shampoo and (if desired) shaving foam. Stir constantly.

To prevent the slime from being too sticky, you need to add less foam and more water.

A simple recipe using plasticine and hand cream

A very good slime can be made from rich hand cream. This simple recipe will have a minimum of ingredients.

What to prepare:

• regular hard plasticine;
• hand cream;
• shaving foam.

Progress of work:

1. Place the solid plasticine in a container and melt over low heat.
2. Add cream and foam.
3. Stir for a long time and thoroughly.

You will get a wonderful slime, which is elastic and has a glossy finish.

From plasticine with lens fluid

Contact lens solution contains sodium tetraborate and other substances needed to create the lick.

What is needed for preparation:

• "Play Doh" - 1 jar weighing 27 g;
• contact lens solution - 2 tablespoons;
• PVA glue - 80 g;
• water.

Progress of work:

1. Pour glue and water into a bowl and stir.
2. Add lens fluid.
3. Place lots of small pieces of Play Doh.
4. Mix the mixture thoroughly with your hands.

You will get a soft slime, reminiscent of butter in its consistency and having a glossy shine.

A simple recipe for making slime with gelatin

There is a recipe that consists of only two ingredients - plasticine and gelatin. For beauty, you can add glitter to the recipe. The main disadvantage of such slimes is that they are short-lived and spoil quickly.

What you will need:

• plasticine - 1 bar;
• gelatin - 100 g;
• water - 50 ml;
• glitter - 2 packs;
• 2 bowls - plastic and metal.

Simple recipe:

1. Pour gelatin into an iron bowl and leave for 1 hour.
2. Knead the plasticine in your hand and place it in a plastic plate. Pour water on top - 10 ml, five portions.
3. Bring the gelatin to a boil over low heat and then cool.
4. Place plasticine into the cooled gelatin and mix with a wooden spatula and your hands.
5. Add glitter, stir and place in the refrigerator.

After a few hours, the slime is taken out of the refrigerator. After each game, the slime should be packed in a box with a lid and put in the refrigerator.

Slime with plasticine and Persil washing gel

"Persil" is a very popular detergent. You can make a slime with it.

Materials:

• modeling clay;
• Persil washing gel;
• PVA glue - 125 g.

How to do:

1. Pour glue into a plastic bowl, add small pieces of plasticine and stir.
2. While stirring constantly, carefully add Persil gel.
3. When the mass becomes homogeneous and thick, you can stop.
4. They knead the licker in their hands and start playing with it.

Rainbow Fluffy Slime

Kids love colorful slimes. Rainbow fluffy slime is easy to make yourself from a few cans of soft play dough.

Materials:

• Play Doh - 7 jars of all the colors of the rainbow;
• water;
• PVA glue;
• shaving foam - 2 cups;
• baking soda;
• sodium tetraborate or boric acid.

Practical master class:

1. Pour 200 ml of water into a bowl and dissolve 1 teaspoon of soda in it.
2. In another bowl, mix 100 ml of PVA glue and 1 tablespoon of water. Then mix in the shaving foam.
3. Add 2 teaspoons of sodium tetraborate and mix both masses.
4. Divide this mixture into 7 parts and roll it into a flat cake.
5. A piece of plasticine is rolled out on top of each flat cake. There should be one portion of fluffy mixture per piece of each color.
6. Knead each piece of plasticine with the mixture for a long time. You will get 7 small slimes of different colors. Each of them should be rolled into a sausage, and then combine all 7 sausages into one large slime.

You will get a beautiful flexible rainbow in your hands. Children love to play with such slimes.

Super Fluffy Shiny

An airy, shiny slime is a dream of many children. You can make such a toy yourself.

Materials:

• air plasticine - 1 bar;
• shampoo - 1 teaspoon;
• hand cream - 1 teaspoon;
• shaving foam - 2 portions;
• sodium tetraborate - 2 drops;
• sparkles or glitter.

Step by step instructions:

1. A whole block of modeling dough is placed in a bowl.
2. Shampoo and cream are poured onto it and then kneaded by hand.
3. Sodium tetraborate is dripped in, stirring constantly.
4. In another bowl, mix the shaving foam and glitter, then add it to the mixture and stir.

Why can't you make a slime out of plasticine?

A plasticine slime may not work out because of the wrong ingredients or because of their wrong proportions. If you add too much sodium tetraborate, you will get a bouncy ball. Due to a lack of water, the toy will be matte. If you overdo it with soda, the slime will stretch and tear.

To change the proportions, you will have to add the necessary ingredient. But it is difficult to remake a spoiled preparation, it is easier to start over.

If the slime gradually starts to dry out, you can mold it into a beautiful figure and turn it into a hard toy.

To get a good toy, you need to strictly adhere to the dosage of all components. They need to be combined with each other in a precise sequence. The finished toy must be protected from dirt and dust.

Features of care and storage of toys

Slime made from plasticine lasts quite a long time. It should be stored in a hermetically sealed box, which is placed in the refrigerator.

If you don't take care of your slime properly, it can dry out. To fix this and extend its shelf life, you should constantly water the toy with salt water.

The slime helps to relax and relieve anxiety, so this toy is loved by children and adults. Slime made with your own hands will bring much more joy than store-bought.