How to Make Butter Slime Good Again
There are just so many unique slime recipes out there to try and a hot one right now is butter slime. All of our favorite homemade slime recipes come from our 5 basic slime recipes. Once you have mastered those, then unique slime like this soft butter slime are a cinch to make! The kids will love this easy slime recipe!
SOFT BUTTER SLIME RECIPE THAT REALLY IS AS SMOOTH AS BUTTER!
BUTTER SLIME OR CLAY SLIME
What's so special about soft butter slime? Here are a few things we have found that are really cool about this type of slime. First, it stays nice and stretchy for a lot longer. Second, it's a bit moldable. Third, it has a smooth, rich, and silky feeling texture!
Butter slime only requires one extra ingredient, and can be made using anyone of our three basic slime recipes. I will tell you which one is my favorite below because we experimented with all three of them to find the best one! The slime recipes vary depending on what slime activator you want to use; borax powder, liquid starch or saline solution.
Here we use saline solution to make our butter slime. Now if you don't want to use saline solution, you can absolutely test out one of our other basic recipes using liquid starch or borax powder. We have tested all three recipes with equal success!
THE SCIENCE OF SLIME
We always like to include a bit of homemade slime science around here! Slime is an excellent chemistry demonstration and kids love it too! Mixtures, substances, polymers, cross-linking, states of matter, elasticity, and viscosity are just a few of the science concepts that can be explored with homemade slime!
What's slime science all about? 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…
You add the borate ions to the mixture, and it then 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 rubbery like slime! Slime is a polymer.
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! Experiment with making the slime more or less viscous with varying amounts of foam beads. Can you change the density?
Did you know that slime aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)?
It does and you can use slime making to explore states of matter and its interactions. Find out more below…
- NGSS Kindergarten
- NGSS First Grade
- NGSS Second Grade
BUTTER SLIME RECIPE
As I mentioned above, you can use any of our basic slime recipes for your butter slime, but we like to use our basic saline solution slime recipe with white washable PVA school glue.
SLIME INGREDIENTS:
- 1/2 cup of PVA White Glue per slime batch
- 1/2 tsp baking soda per slime batch
- Food coloring
- 2 oz of soft modeling clay
- 1 tbsp of saline solution (see recommended slime supplies for brands) per slime batch
HOW TO MAKE SLIME WITH SALINE SOLUTION
1: Add 1/2 cup of PVA Glue to your bowl.
2: Mix the glue with a 1/2 cup of water.
3: Add food coloring as desired.
4: Stir in 1/2 tsp baking soda.
5: Mix in 1 tbsp saline solution and stir until slime forms and pulls away from sides of bowl.
This is exactly how much you will need with the Target Sensitive Eyes brand, but other brands may differ slightly!
6: Once your slime is made, you can knead in your soft clay! This will take a few minutes and some good hand strengthening to get it all worked in well.
If your slime still feels too sticky, you may need a few more drops of saline solution
ADDING CLAY TO SLIME
Now that you have your basic slime recipe made, it's time to mix in the clay! There are several types of clay out there to use. We have chosen to use the Crayola Model Magic clay as it's readily available around us. However we have found another option you can see here, and it comes in a variety of colors.
CLAY NOTE: The denser the clay, like this clay, the less you will want to use. A less dense clay will require you to use more. Feel free to experiment with the consistency you like the most.
We have experimented with two different amounts of the Crayola Model Magic clay and found that mixing 1/3 of a standard 4 ounce packaged worked nicely. The first time we used 1/2 a package. We ended up with a thicker slime, less stretchy.
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MIXING YOUR CLAY SLIME
Get your muscles ready for this one! This will take a few minutes to mix, so don't get discouraged that it doesn't happen immediately.
In the beginning, you might even think that it won't work, but just keep kneading your slime, and it will come together for you!
We chose to start with a yellow base and add a reddish colored clay to it. We have also mixed blue and green and pink and orange! There are so many possibilities including black and white clay!
Start by softening up your clay. Next, flatten it out, and put on top of your slime.
Then start folding and mixing and kneading and squishing. Remember it will come together and make one smooth color like you see in the last few photos.
You did it! Your clay slime recipe is now ready to play with. We love making hand prints in ours. Soft butter slime is so squishy and relaxing to play with too.
HOW DO YOU STORE SLIME?
I get a lot of questions regarding how I store my slime. We use reusable containers in either plastic or glass. Make sure to keep your slime clean and it will last for several weeks. I love the deli-style containers I have listed in my recommended slime supplies list.
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 or grocery store or even Amazon. For large groups, we have used condiment containers and labels as seen here.
We have the best resources to look through before, during, and after making your butter slime! Make sure to go back and read the slime science above too!
MORE FUN SLIME RECIPES TO TRY
- Fluffy Slime
- Elmer's Glue Slime
- Borax Slime
- How To Make Clear Slime
- Saline Solution Slime
- Edible Slime
- Glitter Slime
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WE HOPE YOU ENJOY MAKING THIS EASY BUTTER SLIME RECIPE!
Make sure you check out all of our awesome homemade slime recipes as well as great science and STEM for kids.
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