Slime is ultra-fun to play with. The children love the stretchy fluffy colorful slime throughout the world. Even in India, slime has taken a special place in the heart of children. Everyone is asking how to make slime with Indian products.
You can add various colors and glitters to your slime. Plus, slime is a great educational medium for little kids. Making slime with your kids gives you the chance to boost the communication level between you and your child. Again, the busy bees will love the excellent tactile sensory experience. Slime is a relaxing and stress relieving too. They can learn the science behind the ingredients used in slime creation. Toddlers can learn about alphabets, colors, smell, etc. from slime.
Today’s discussion is about how to make slime using Indian products
The products that we are going to suggest you are available easily in the retail stores all over India. So, Indian children can have fun without being worried about the accessibility of the ingredients.
Things Needed For Making Slime
- Borax powder
- Fevicol ( it’s a white glue commonly used for school projects and other adhesive uses like woodwork, construction industry, etc.)
- Water
- Himalaya baby cream ( a baby product manufactured by a reputed pharmaceutical company named “Himalaya”)
- Ponds Powder (Ponds:- A famous cosmetics and skin care products manufacturer )
- Shaving Foam ( We suggest Gillette )
- Food color or watercolor (any 1 variant)
- Loose glitter
- Newspaper ( it should be placed on the bare table before starting the slime-making process as the activity is messy)
- Bowl
- 2 mixing spoons
- One tablespoon
- 1 cup
You may ask: Why do I need these ingredients in particular?
The reasons are as follows:
1. Baby cream makes the slime soft and gooey.
2. Powder helps the slime to remain non-sticky.
3. Foam makes the slime light and fluffy.
How To Make The Slime With These Indian Ingredients In Easy 20 Steps?
- Firstly, take an empty bowl.
- Put your desired amount of Fevicol glue.
- Put 1tbsp of water and mix well.
- Now, if you think that the mixture is very thin, you can add more Fevicol.
- Take a cup half-filled with water.
- Put borax powder in it.
- Mix well.
- Now, put Himalaya baby cream into the glue and water combo.
- Add Ponds powder.
- Mix the combination well.
- Then, add Gillette Shaving foam into the same concoction.
- Blend well.
- If you want to give a dash of beautiful tint to the slime, add food/watercolor.
- Mix the entire composition too well.
- By this time, the borax is supposed to get entirely dissolved in the water.
- You can add loose glitters to the glue filled bowl.
- The most critical part of slime making that takes immense patience:- Adding borax water to the concoction mentioned above. Do it slowly.
- Keep blending continuously.
- Knead the slime with bare hands.
- In this way, you will get the right slime consistency.
Conclusion
If the slime gets very hard, keep the slime in warm water for 20 to maximum 30 minutes. If it is exceptionally light, add some amount of lotion. Add foam if the slime becomes watery.
Relish the slime making event. If you want your slime to remain okay for a more extended period, keep it in an airtight container and refrigerate.