So y’all know I love to share a good recipe with you. So this week I’m bringing you something special. While you can’t eat it, it certainly has all the ingredients for a fun time!

I recently had the opportunity to make slime. It’s super simple, and isn’t particularly messy, and with winter weather officially in full effect, I thought I’d share the how-tos with you for an easy, fun, winter project. It’s not an expensive undertaking and like I said, it wasn’t really messy, so there is no major cleanup.

We did the most basic of slime, but I’m going to give you a couple of variations to add some extra fun. But all the ‘recipes’ start the same.

Basic Slime:

Ingredients:
• (1) 5oz. bottle of Elmer’s Glue – you pick the variety — colors, glow in the dark, glitter…
• 1/2 Tbs. of baking soda.
• 1 Tbs. (give or take) of contact lens solution.
That’s it. If you want, you can also use basic white Elmer’s Glue and use any food coloring you prefer.

Directions:
Pour out the entire contents of glue into a bowl.
Add baking soda and mix thoroughly.
Add contact lens solution.
Mix until mixture gets harder to mix and slime begins to form.
Take slime out, and begin to knead with both hands.
If it’s too sticky, add 1/4 Tbs. of contact lens solution and knead. Keep adding contact lens solution until you reach desired consistency. Not gonna lie, after the initial tablespoon, I just eyeballed (no pun intended) the saline solution until we got it right.

Fluffy Slime:

All of the ingredients are the same for fluffy slime as the basic except you are going to add shaving cream to the mix until you get the right consistency. It’s important to note, you can’t use shaving gel, or anything that turns to shaving cream after you rub it in or anything. You need to use good old-fashioned shaving cream. There are no real measurements for this either. Just eyeball it until it works.

Floam:

Y’all remember Floam right? I always wanted Floam when I was a kid. It always looked like so much fun! But back then it involved a credit card and calling a random 800 number to order, so it wasn’t in the cards for me. However, in looking up the slime recipe, I found you can make Floam at home pretty simply and inexpensively.

You are going to start by taking several Styrofoam cups and breaking them up and putting them in a blender. Add a little water to make grinding them up easier. Once they are ground down, drain the excess water and add the Styrofoam bits and knead them into the fluffy slime recipe. See? Super simple.

If you want to get fancy, you can add glitter into the mix and make sparkly Floam, or slime. Just remember, glitter is forever. So once you mess with it, you’ll be finding it forever.

Winter often means being trapped inside with restless kiddos. This is an easy, and again, inexpensive project to kill some time this winter. After the kids are done playing with the slime, you can drop it in a ziplock to use again later. I’m not totally sure how long it will keep, but I would think it will be OK for a couple of days.