Fun Activities
Chapter 6: Amazing Creatures
(August 2 thru August 8)

Blobfish Slime

This program’s slime innovation is to add googly eyes, which turn your ho-hum mound of slime into a quivering blobfish. This is messy!!

What you will need (slime ingredients)

• 1 cup (8 oz) of White school glue
• 1½ cups of Shaving cream
• ½ teaspoon of Baking soda
• Saline solution
• Food coloring
• 2 tablespoons of hand/body lotion
• Googly eyes, beads, or marbles for eyes. I used flat clear Aquarium Pebbles with pupils drawn on with Sharpie for my eyes.

Tools

• Measuring cups
• Plastic bowl, clear if possible, disposable
• Craft stick for stirring, or similiar

Important Preparation

To ensure a no-mess cleanup, first measure one cup of water into the plastic bowl you are using and make a mark at the top of the water line. Empty the water out of the bowl and dry it well. Then pour your glue in to where you measured.

Example: I used a clear red plastic bowl, poured in a cup of water, and marked the outside with a black Sharpie. Then it was easy to take the top off of the glue bottle and fill the bowl with the glue.

Slime Recipe

1. Mix 1 cup glue and 1½ cup shaving cream into a bowl.
2. Add 2 or 3 drops of food coloring. Do not add too much! It will come off on your hands a little bit. Stir until the color is uniform to make sure the ingredients are well combined.
3. Add ½ tsp baking soda and stir.
4. Add large squirts of saline solution until the slime is no longer sticky and the sides of the bowl come clean. It will become one big glob.
5. Add lotion to make the slime stretchy. The easiest way is to squirt it along the length of the slime as you stretch it.
6. Add googly eyes to finish.

It lasts several days sealed up in a plastic baggie.

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