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Bring the beach to your kitchen like we did with our awesome homemade sand slime recipe! Whether you use sand from the beach, sand box, or craft store, making sand slime is a hit with the kids. Whenever we go to the beach I like to take a little of it home with me. Use one of our basic slime recipes to make the coolest beach or ocean theme slime ever.

HOW TO MAKE OUR HOMEMADE SAND SLIME RECIPE

Make this quick homemade sand slime recipe with a few simple ingredients!

If you are planning a trip to the beach or checking out an ocean themed science unit this year, making slime is always an awesome chemistry activity to include! We have quite a few fun beach and ocean themed science and sensory ideas to check out this summer.

Check out our oozing, stretching, cool sand slime science activity the next time you want something different to do! While you are grabbing sand from the sandbox, check out our amazing sandbox volcano science experiment too.

Make sure to read through our recommended slime supplies and print out a slime supplies checklist for your next trip to the store. After the supplies listed below you will see click here black boxes for slime recipes that will work with this theme.

HOMEMADE SLIME SCIENCE

What's the science behind the slime? The borate ions in the slime activators (sodium borate, borax powder, or boric acid) mix with the PVA (polyvinyl-acetate) glue and forms this cool stretchy substance. This is called cross linking!

The glue is a polymer and is made up of long, repeating, and identical strands or molecules. These molecules with flow past one another keeping the glue in a liquid state. Until...

When you add the borate ions to the mixture, it starts to connect these long strands together. They begin to tangle and mix until the substance is less like the liquid you started with and thicker and rubberier like slime!

Picture the difference between wet spaghetti and leftover spaghetti the next day. As the slime forms the tangled molecule strands are much like the clump of spaghetti!

Is slime a liquid or solid? We call it a Non-newtonian fluid because it's a little bit of both! Read more about slime science here!

HOMEMADE SAND SLIME SUPPLIES

Remember to check out our recommended slime ingredients supply list to see what we like to use!

Liquid Starch

Washable Clear PVA Glue

Beach Sand,Play Sand, or Craft Sand

Water

Container, Measuring Cup, Spoon

Shells and Pail {optional}

SLIME RECIPE: We used our liquid starch slime recipe for this activity, but you can also try the saline slime recipe too! The sand is added during the mix-in stage that you will see below. Scroll down to see photos and read the exact recipe.

Make sure to download our handy slime recipe cheat sheet for all your slime making adventures.

Click Here To Download FREE Printable

Here are photo steps for making our awesome homemade sand slime recipe. We also include the written steps below using our liquid starch slime recipe.

If you want to use the saline solution slime recipe, click the black box above and add the sand accordingly.
HOMEAMDE SLIME FAILURES
The biggest reason for slime fails is not reading through the recipe! People contact me all the time with: "Why didn't this work?"

Most of the time the answer has been lack of attention to supplies needed, reading the recipe, and actually measuring the ingredients! So give it a try and do let me know if you need some help. On a very rare occasion I have gotten an old batch of glue, and there is no fixing that!

I highly suggest you read up on BEST SLIME INGREDIENTS! You can also learn about slime activators and whats so important about them.

HOMEMADE SAND SLIME RECIPE STEPS

Add 1/2 cup of clear washable PVA school glue to a bowl

Add to that a 1/2 cup of water and mix well

Add several tablespoons of your beach or play sand and mix into glue/water

Add 1/2 cup of liquid starch and stir

Slime will begin to form immediately. You should keep stirring until slime pulls away nicely from sides and bottom of bowl. You can then begin kneading with your hands until desired consistency is achieved!

Add shells, a small pail, and a shovel for play! I think it would also be fun to add construction vehicles for a fun play experience.

STORING YOUR SAND SLIME

I get a lot of questions regarding how I store my slime. Usually we use a reusable container either plastic or glass. If you keep your slime clean it will last for several weeks. And...if you forget to store your slime in a container, it does actually last a few days uncovered. If the top gets crusty just fold it into itself. If you want to send kids home with a bit of slime from a camp, party, or classroom project, I would suggest packages of reusable containers from the dollar store. For large groups we have used condiment containers as seen here .

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Materials

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