Halloween Kids Crafts- Glow in the Dark Slime

I can't believe we're already halfway through October. Every year things seem to go so much faster, and you look up randomly and half the year has flown by. This is my final week of Halloween crafts, and while I'm sad because this really is a fun holiday for making stuff, what I have planned is pretty exciting too.

Our focus this week is on kids crafts, starting with a glow in the dark slime recipe that I found here. The only glow in the dark paint I can seem to find right now requires a black light, but I did manage to track down a uv light bulb. If you know where to find paint that doesn't need the black light, please let me know. Anyway, this recipe is comprised mainly of two ingredients, white craft glue and a liquid starch called sta-flo. It works best if they are cold, so be sure to refrigerate the glue and sta-flo for at least an hour before you begin.

My favorite part of working on kids crafts this week was being able to bring in some extra help. I wanted to see how all of these came out on a larger scale, so I invited my niece and some of my nephews over to help. They range from ages 11-2 so I think I got a decent sample.

Supplies

-White Craft Glue

-Sta-flo liquid starch

-Glow in the dark paint (I only had spray paint, use whatever)

-Squishy eyeballs or something similar (optional)

My niece is apparently a slime expert, so I let her take the lead. The instructions didn't have exact measurements for anything, but my niece said that it's all about the feel of it, and that she would know when the ratio was correct. I poured about half of my gallon of glue into the bowl, and let her stir as I slowly added the sta-flo. At the same time, one of my nephews added a few sprays of the paint. I think you can still add it at the end, but we wanted to mix it all together early on. A few times we thought we were there but it was still too sticky. Eventually she just stuck her hands in there and mixed it that way while I kept pouring. All of the other kids saw her almost elbow deep in slime and decided that they wanted in too, and suddenly I had three pairs of hands all stirring the slime, but it was still too sticky.

I kept adding sta-flo, a small splash at a time, until finally it reached the perfect consistency. It wasn't too sticky, and it behaved like you would expect of slime. And of course the first thing the kids did was have it make farting sounds. If you don't know, you make fart noises by pushing the slime into a jar or cup, forcing out the air inside. The air you push out makes noises.

The kids did seem slightly put off by the fact that the slime was cold, but when I told them it was supposed to be cold they were fine with it. We kept it out until it got to room temp, and it didn't affect the consistency. I do plan on storing it in the fridge though.

Unfortunately, everyone had to leave before I was able to pull out the black light, but honestly I don't think that many kids would have been able to fit under my little lamp with my black light bulb. I also forgot about my squishy eyeballs. I set up the black light while my daughter added the eyeballs to the slime, which immediately made the slime much more interesting to her. I am glad I got brightly colored eyeballs, because when I turned on the black light, they glowed too. We were able to turn off the light and see that our slime did glow a little bit, but not quite enough to get a decent picture of it.

Slime is an easy kids project that is quickly growing in popularity, mainly because of how easy it is, but also because of how many different types of slime you can make. I had a hard time deciding what kind to make for you because I also found glittery slimes with sensory objects, and puffy edible slimes which I only decided against because I couldn't imagine eating something like this after all those hands were playing with it. All of these kids knew exactly what we were doing the whole time and I ended up taking orders from a ten year old. So much fun though, and I'm excited to share the rest of these kids projects with you.

This was the best picture I could get with all of the lights off.