How To Make A Rainbow Of Super Fluffy Slime

Below: This fluffy slime recipe is easy to make at home with shaving cream and glue! Maia found a fluffy slime recipe on YouTube recently and our studio has been turned into a laboratory for making and experimenting with slimes. She and Daphne have made about a dozen batches between them in a rainbow of colors. But lately, it’s been about the homemade slimes and putties. This post will show you how to make slime with shaving cream. The resulting fluffy slime is stretchy, putty-like stuff that is fun to knead and play with it. The kids even make balloons and balls with it!

Our studio looks like a science laboratory and they’ve been taking an experimental approach to this. Each batch is a little different with slightly different properties of stretchiness, fluffiness, and non-stickiness depending on the amounts of extra glue, shaving cream, eye contact solution, etc that they added. And, of course, they’ve been working to get the perfect colors and tints by adding and mixing food coloring (and liquid watercolors in a couple of cases). Now they have a rainbow of fluffy slime. Here’s the recipe and step-by-step instructions. Makes about 1 cup of slime. Adapted from the recipe in this YouTube video by Sarah Choxo.

Or, if you’re going to be making lots of slime, you might want to consider buying your glue by the gallon. Also, if you don’t want to track down all the ingredients for slime, you can buy slime kits now! Here’s a rainbow slime starter kit by Elmer’s that is well rated on Amazon. It would be interesting to see if you could adapt it for making fluffy slime. Perhaps just by adding a bottle of shaving cream, Squeeze one bottle of white glue into a medium bowl. Stir in 1/2 cup to 1 cup of shaving foam, depending on how fluffy you want your slime to be. Add food coloring to color desired and stir. Mix in a few squirts of eye contact solution (this makes it less sticky). Add borax solution a teaspoon at a time until the mixture forms a clump in the bowl.

This is what it looks like when it first pulls together (above). Knead the fluffy slime. If it’s too sticky, add more solution. If it seems to need more glue or shaving cream or color, you can knead that in, too. And, if you want your fluffy slime to be scented, knead in a few drops of essential oil. Store in a covered container or plastic bag to keep from drying out. Fluffy slime is a great sensory material to hold, squeeze, stretch, and fiddle with. Maia, my sensory girl, always (and I mean always) has some sort of slime, putty, dough, water beads, or kinetic sand in her hand. This homemade fluffy slime is pretty good stuff, too. You can even blow big bubble balls with it. To pop or to toss (gently). Have you made your own putty, slime, or gak, Maybe now is the time! My new post with fun variations of fluffy shaving cream slime using different themes, colors, sprinkles, sparkles, scents, and extra fluffiness. Check out Karina Garcia’s DIY Slime book for “15 Cool, Easy Borax-Free Recipes” with step-by-step photos and instructions.