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by TurkeyMom in Messy Play

Ages3–6 yrs
Prep20 min
Activity30 min
Leveleasy
MessMedium
Works for1:1 · Small group · Class

Make a firm, putty-like glue and liquid starch slime in several colors, then let kids pull, cut and squish it into pretend pizza toppings and serve it at a pretend restaurant. This is play food only. The slime is not edible or taste-safe.

⚠️ Safety first

  • This is pretend food, not real food. Glue and liquid starch slime is NOT taste-safe, so watch closely that kids don't put it in their mouths.
  • Check the liquid starch label: some brands contain borates. Adult does the mixing, and everyone washes hands after play.
  • The author gave kids knives and forks 'at your own discretion'. Use plastic utensils (and child-safe scissors, if any) and supervise cutting.
  • Food color can stain hands, clothes and table covers. Cover the table and wear old clothes.
  • Supervise sensory play at all times.

Before the kids arrive

  • Cover the play table.
  • Decide on your colors: brown and white for the base, and red, green and yellow for toppings.

Steps

  1. Adult: pour 1/2 cup of white glue into a bowl.

  2. Add your preferred food color to the glue and stir it in before adding any starch.

  3. Add 1/4 cup of liquid starch and start mixing.

  4. Once it gets stretchy, keep kneading and add the rest of the liquid starch. It should end up putty-like rather than very stretchy.

  5. Repeat with a new batch for each color.

  6. Put each color on its own paper plate and hand out plastic knives and forks.

  7. Squish, pull, tug and cut off pieces of slime.

  8. Build a pizza by adding red, green and yellow toppings to the brown or white slime.

  9. Set up a pretend restaurant and serve dinner.

Tips

  • Make a slightly harder slime, more putty-like and less slimy. It's better for pinching and cutting.from the author
  • Ours tried making pieces with the knives and forks but ended up simply pulling the pieces out to build their pizza.from the author
  • The squishing, pulling, tugging and cutting turned out to be the best part.from the author
  • Getting the exact colors can be tricky. My red for tomatoes came out more pinkish than red, but it still worked.from the author

Make it your own

  • Make Mexican play food instead. The author thought hers looked more like refried beans with cheese than pizza.
  • Set up shop with the finished dishes and play pretend restaurant.
  • For younger kids who still mouth things, try the author's psyllium-based edible slime instead (1-Ingredient Edible Rainbow Slime).

The story behind it

By TurkeyMom · August 2014
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We started off with making a slightly harder slime, more putty-like and less slimy. I did not have the exact colors for pretend pizza; my red was more pinkish than red.
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Slime Play Food: the original post

Children can play with pretend food made with homemade slime. Have you ever made slime? The stretchy string of goodness! My children have always enjoyed playing with slime and adore cutting slime. Today’s sensory activity gives them an opportunity to satisfy their need for “cutting slime” while creating play food. We started off with making a slightly harder slime, more putty-like and less slimy. I did not have the exact colors for making pretend pizza but I tried. My red (for tomatoes) was more pinkish than red. slime colors I placed the different colored slime in paper plates and gave them knives and forks ( please use them at your own discretion) They tried making pieces. colored slime for sensory play But ended up simply pulling the pieces out and creating their pizza on the brown and white slime. The squishing, pulling, tugging and cutting part of this sensory activity turned out to be the best part. pulling slime The red, green and yellow ended up being toppings for their pizza. kids sensory activities red slime They loved cutting the slime out to create their play food. sensory activities for kids with slime Honestly this looks more Mexican than Italian. I can see refried beans with cheese.. slime play food They had to set up shop with all this yummy slime play food. fun with slime Dinner is served! slime fun at their pretend restaurant. table set up for slime play How to make play food slime.

  1. 1/2 cup liquid starch
  2. 1/2 cup white glue
  3. Food colors

Add 1/2 cup white glue in a bowl and add 1/4 cup of liquid starch and start mixing. Once you get a stretchy substance, keep kneading and add the rest of the liquid starch. Your slime will not be very stretch but more putty-like. This is better for pinching and cutting. To make the slime colored, add your preffered food color to the white blue before adding in the liquid starch.

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  1. Emma @ P is for Preschooler · Aug 2014

    This looks like so much fun!

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