RV Activity for Kids: Making Slime
Jason and Lisa McEwenIs there a kid out there that doesn’t like slime? Adults maybe not so much, but Lisa McEwen, an RV Lifestyle and Repair contributor, has a recipe to make slime that both parents and children will enjoy.
Other slime recipes
Through the years Lisa has tried several different recipes. Some of them stain and some are incredibly messy. This is definitely a deterrent for parents at home or RV’ing, because who wants additional work when all you're trying to do is have some fun?
The one and the reason why
The McEwens like to have an activity like this on hand in the camper for those lazy days when they're not feeling up to straying far from the RV or maybe weather is preventing them from doing so.
This particular recipe for slime the McEwen family happens to like. It's not messy. It's not difficult to do whatsoever, and Adalyn and Riley will walk you through the ingredients.
Ingredients and accessories
For a couple of bucks, your kids can have hours worth of fun and the kids can be involved in both making and playing with the slime. Here is a list of the ingredients:
• Glue
• Baking soda
• Paint
• Saline solution with borax acid
• Bowls
• Spoons
• Measuring cups
Mix it up
Add glue and baking soda into a bowl. Next add the acrylic paint. The more paint you add, the darker it gets. Now you're going to start stirring the ingredients. It takes a couple of minutes to stir it.
Next, add your saline solution. The saline solution is what turns the mixture into slime. As you're mixing, you'll start to see the glue pull away from the bowl, that’s an indicator that you're getting close.
Next, it’s time to drop the spoon and form the slime with your hands. If the slime is still sticky, you can add a few drops of saline solution. Make sure you add it drop by drop, otherwise it will get hard.
Once you have the proper consistency, it’s time to clean up and go play!
Check out other activities the McEwen family enjoys inside their RV.
Hello RVers, and welcome to RV Lifestyle and Repair. I've got the girls with me today. They are very excited because today we are going to make slime in the camper. I know what you're thinking. Really, slime in the camper, or is this a great idea?
Um, maybe not, to be honest with you. Uh, if I'm being honest though, I have certainly had my share of slime recipes. We have tried several of them. Uh, some of them stain. They are messy.
They are not appropriate for the RV, but this particular recipe for slime I do happen to like. It's not messy. It's not difficult to do whatsoever, um, and I like to have a couple of these kinds of activities on hand in the camper for those lazy. Or for those rainy days, right? So there are just some days that I call lazy days where I don't really feel like wandering too far from the camper and no one in the family really does, so we try to stick close to home, if you will, but you do need to entertain the kids in some capacity, right?
So for those lazy days we have these activities on hand and also for those rainy days because if the weather is not cooperating outside when you're in the RV, you got to find some way to entertain the kids inside the camper. So, the girls are going to show you how to make slime. Hello, my name is Adam. Hello, my name's Addy. It's today we're gonna be making slime.
We, we made it in the past. First ingredient you'll need is glue. Second ingredient you're gonna need is baking soda. Third ingredient you're gonna need is paint. Fourth ingredient you're gonna need is saline solution with boric acid.
If you don't have the boric acid, you won't make slime, and you're gonna need some bowls. Some spoons and some measurements. So let's get it started. We started with glue in the bowl, and then we added baking soda. Next, we add the acrylic paint.
The more paint you add, the darker it gets. Now you're going to start stirring the ingredients. It takes a couple of minutes to stir it. Now you're going to add your saline solution. The saline solution is what turns it into slime.
You'll start to see the glue pull away from the bowl. You can put your hands in the bowl to get your slime going. If your slime is still sticky, you can add a few drops of saline solution. But make sure you do it drop by drop, otherwise it will get hard. It's all mixed up.
There you have it. You have slime.
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