The last week seems to have absolutely flown by. We’re definitely back into our routine of school runs, swimming lessons and weekends of recovery! Toby and Gabe have both been much more settled going to school and nursery this last week so hopefully the worst is now behind us.
We have Amazon Prime video at home, and Toby and Gabe always seem to find the most random things to watch. Gabe absolutely loves cupcake decorating videos for some reason! On Saturday they started following the suggested videos and we fell down a rabbit hole of how tos… and there were a lot of slime videos involved!
Now, anyone who knows my boys knows that they don’t like getting messy. I partly blame myself, because messiness is definitely not something I have encouraged at home. Anyway, I thought we should do something to take us all out of comfort zones and make some slime of our own.
I didn’t want to do one of the glue and borax ones as I’d heard they could be a bit nasty so instead we just went with conditioner and corn flour with a bit of food colouring. The boys were fascinated as we were making it, but would only stir with a spoon. We were aiming for slime but Gabe was a bit over enthusiastic with the corn flour so we actually ended up with some sort of cloud dough / putty instead!
It took a little bit of encouragement for them to get really stuck in but I think they did enjoy it in the end. And do you know what? It wasn’t even that messy! I think we’ll definitely be trying some more slime recipes soon…
It’s good that the boys are settling a bit better at school and nursery, it’s so tough to leave them when they don’t isn’t it. Your slime making looks lots of fun, we made some as part of a review this week and the kids absolutely loved it. Have a lovely week x #livingarrows
I’m quite pleased that neither of mine seem bothered about trying to make slime! The stuff you made looks good though, I think I prefer the idea of it being more like play dough than sticky and stretchy! x #LivingArrows
Love the idea of this slime. I’ve been put off by the news that slime isn’t all that safe but this one sounds better. #livingarrows
Looks like fun doing that dough/slime judging from their faces! Messy but not too messy hehe.
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I definitely think a putty like texture is better. I really hate anything on my hands but could cope with that. I’m dreading when Iris reaches this phase, shes definitely not inherited my texture issues- she loves getting messy! x
I know so many children that don’t like getting messy, don’t like anything on their hands… so glad they got into it in the end and the dough looks great! x
You are brave! They did well to get into in the end, my brother hated getting his hands dirty he would wear gloves all the time! x