I really hate slime. I think it is gross and looks like something one of my kids sneezed out their nose. The worst part about it is I have never liked slime even back I the 90 when it was called Gak. Unfortunately, my 5-year-old daughter got 2 kits from my ex-mother-in-law to make slime with a note that said this might be fun to do for your weekly science experiment. All I could think of was “great…how do I fit this into our lessons, and can I pawn the project off on her stepdad or biological dad?” Sadly, I couldn’t get either of them to do it with her and was now stuck with trying to figure out how to make it educational.
After rolling different ideas around in my head I release I was over thinking. I’m teaching kindergarten, and what the easiest thing kids learn in kindergarten? That is to follow directions! This way I didn’t have to try and figure out how to make this into a science lesson for my home. Which was probably a good thing because science is the one subject, I hate teaching to my kid. (I know, that sounds crazy, but I just can’t dumb the subject down so she understands it and we are not doing a formal sciences curriculum this year next year we will). The downside is this idea is great for people who are teaching younger kids, but this doesn’t really work older kids. So here are a few ideas for people who are like me and not very good with sciences and need some help.

What is slime?
This experiment is simple and if you go to the website (I will link it to you here shortly. It will go into detail on how you and your child can explore what really happens when you mix the ingredients for slime together). I do want to warn you though if you do not feel comfortable letting your child handle Borax Powder then you may want to check out the other things I have found online. Anyway, to sum this experiment up it just to find out what slime is, what the components are and how slime is made. It gives you a nice simple material list. Which many households may already have the items they need to make the slime. It gives you the instruction on how to make it, though the site has this label as procedures, not instruction. Then it gives you some discussion ideas to talk about with your child, and it also explains the science word Polymer and other objects that fall into this classification.
If you wish to check it out here is the link
https://explorable.com/make-your-own-slime-experiment

What are the differences?
This site I just like overall because it has a lot of different sciences things and if you look, the site has a lot of freebies. What this site offers for slime are four different slime recipes. They all make diffident types of slime (under the photo for each recipe it tells you the type of slime) then after your child has made all four you simple have them compare the difference between the slimes and see if the child can find out why the ingredients in each slime produce the result it did. Depending on how old the child is, and what type of homeschooler you and your family are you can do this a few different ways. You can do a video report, a written report, or even have the child do it in different testing with the different slimes (like which slime will stretch better, which slime holds together better, or something like that)
If this is something you would like here is the link for it.
https://www.homesciencetools.com/article/how-to-make-slime/

What Happens if?
This blog has some really good idea that really shows how bad and unimaginative I am when it comes to sciences. In it, the writer talks about what happens if I do this? And they go on to talk about changing the number of ingredients like using more or less baking soda. They also talk about a fiber slime and the powder to water ratio needed to make it. (note: they claim the fiber slime is taste safe I have not tried it or investigated the recipe they are using so taste at your own risk). They have a lot more with slime on the blog I didn’t look into all of the ideas the Author thought of because it seems like she has a lot, but definitely something to look into if Slime is what your family is into.
https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/how-to-set-up-science-experiments-with-slime/

These are just a few of the ideas I found that I liked and could be helpful for an easy weekly sciences experiment. If you have any other ideas, you would like to share please do so in the comments. If you like what you have read don’t forget to like comment and subscribe so you can keep getting updates!