How to make fluffy slime with only 3 ingredients. It is super soft and stretchy! It only takes 5 minutes to make and will entertain for hours!
Indoor Kids Activity
Oh SLIME. Me and this stuff have a love hate/relationship. My kids love it though, so I’ve learned to accept it.
If you’ve ever wondered how to make fluffy slime, this recipe is seriously the best ever! We love it because it only takes 3 ingredients and takes less than 5 minutes to make. The kids love helping me make it and it entertains them for hours! It is so soft and squishy!
During our Spring break last week it was cold and rainy, so this was the perfect indoor activity for my kids to do. It holds together more which is great! My kids like this fluffy slime better than my slime recipe and glitter slime because it can stretch further and the consistency is perfect although my butter slime is still smoothest of of them all!
Fluffy Slime Ingredients
For this slime you only need 3 simple ingredients (that you can probably find around your home). I love that this fluffy slime is made without borax. You can also add any color you’d like (or even mix them).
- 1 (4-ounce) bottle Elmer’s white school glue
- 2 Tablespoons multi purpose contact lenses solution
- 1 – 2 cups shaving cream
- Food coloring, optional
How To Make Fluffy Slime
- Combine. To get started place the glue in a plastic bowl. If you’re adding food coloring, add it now. Once it is your desired color add the saline solution and mix until combined.
- Stir. Then stir in 1-2 cups of shaving cream. The more you add the thicker it will be. The less you add the slimier it will be. We usually end up adding about 1 1/2 cups. Stir until you can no longer stir (this should take several minutes).
- Kneed. Next you’ll kneed it with your hands. It will be sticky at first, but keep moving it with your hands until it is no longer sticky and is the right consistency.
- Play. Get your hands in there and have some fun!
Mixing 2 colors
We made our first batch of fluffy slime pink and then the next one purple.
To make this fluffy slime with more than one color, simply make another batch and then lay them right next to each other. Then stretch it out and twist it together so the colors swirl together. It will end up looking something like this.
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Fluffly Slime Recipe
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Equipment
- Plastic bowl and spoon.
- Place mat for enjoying slime.
Ingredients
- 4 ounce bottle Elmer’s white school glue
- 2-3 Tablespoons multi purpose contact lenses solution or slime activator , add more as needed
- 1-2 cups unscented shaving cream , use more as needed
Optional: Food coloring
Instructions
- Place glue in a plastic bowl. If you're adding food coloring, you can add it now until desired color is reached. Add saline solution or slime activator and mix until combined.
- Stir in 1 cup of shaving cream. The more you add, the thicker it'll be. The less you add, the slimier it will be. Add 1/2 cup more as needed. I usually end up adding about 1 1/2 cups.
- Stir until you can no longer stir (it will be sticky at first) and then knead with your hands. Keep moving it with your hands until it is no longer sticky and desired consistency is reached. Wash hands if needed and then work on it again. If it's still too sticky, you may need to add another Tablespoon of activator and then keep kneading.
- Enjoy playing with the slime. Store in a covered container or zip top bag.
Notes
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Categorized as: DIY
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
I used laundry detergent to make this and the first time was a huge fail. The detergent made it set up and become super stringy and the shaving cream would not blend! The second time I added the shaving cream first and then stirred it super quickly after adding the detergent. After kneading it because nice and fluffy as described! My 4 year old loved it!
Thanks for your comment Lara! I’m glad it worked the second time!
How did you store it afterwards?
Hi Katie! I just store in an airtight container!!
What am I doing wrong? The slime never gets firm enough to be able to knead it.
You may need to add more shaving cream. It will be sticky at first, but the more you knead it, it will get to the right consistency.
Love it
I tried it out twice with liquid laundry detergents. The first attempt was an utter failure and was just super liquidy. The second attempt was much better but still wasn’t what I expected. It was very slimy but Definitely not as formed as it looks like in the pictures. Maybe it works better with Saline solution.
I love this it works!! Even my mom likes it and shes not a slime girl i can tell ya that!! 💟💟💟💟💟
I looked online to lessen the stickiness….needs baking soda and water.
NOT YET, BUT I THINK IT WILL BE GREAT!
Good slime
We made the recipe, with all these ingredients but it ended up still being super sticky after 30 min of kneading. I tried adding more contact solution to make it less it sticky but it didn’t work for some reason. It was fun though!
I tried this and my slime didn’t work we stir for about 15mins and it was sticky. the children still had fun anyway. not sure what went wrong
Glad they still had fun even though it was sticky! Did you use the full 2 cups of shaving cream?
We just made this and ours was a little sticky too no matter how long we kneaded it. We added extra saline and continued to knead and work it into the slime and add more saline until it didn’t stick to us!
Love how it turned out
I love this recipe!!!
We added 4 more cups of shaving cream it is thicker but so sticky we can’t get it off our hands or the bowl
Hi Pamela! I’m sorry it was sticky for you. The more you knead, the less sticky it will get. What kind of shaving cream did you use? I’ve had the best success with the Barbasol brand.
Wow! This really works!!
Ours turned out to be very sticky no matter how much foam we added. Can you suggest what the problem may be?
As you continue to knead it, the thicker and less sticky it gets!
I wish I had read the comments because ours is soooo sticky. If I roll it in between my hands for a couple seconds it stops being sticky, but then very quickly returns to a sticky slop.
Awesome recipe!!!
This recipe is so cool I might just try it tomorrow because I don’t have all of the ingredients just yet. But I reeeealy want to make it!
Hope you have fun with it!