Slime Squad: Join the Fun and Make Your Own Slime!

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Overview

Welcome to the Slime-tastic World of DIY Fun!
Here, you can find the tutorial video, safety caution infographics, a little science magic behind making slime, and fun activities to try. Let’s dive in and have fun!🧐

What is Slime?

Slime is a mixture of household items combined to form a polymer substance that can be both a solid and a liquid depending on how you play with it! It was first manufactured by the toy company Mattel in 1976, packaged in a container looking like a trash can (Gazette). Quite a long history, isn’t it?

DIY (Do-it-Yourself) Slime became a huge trend during the pandemic that started in 2019, as people were searching for fun activities to do at home at an affordable price! With the power of social media and influencers, slime-making was growing in popularity. The customizable nature and texture of slime have fostered the creativity and imagination of young children. Adding colouring, glitter, charms, foam beads, hydrated instant snow powder, and more allows endless possibilities in manipulating the texture!

In this module, we will be creating the most basic slime, with the option to add food colouring and glitter as you wish. Be creative and Enjoy!

Learning Objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

1. Understand the safety precautions of making slime at home
2. Understand a simple chemical reaction behind the slime-making activity
3. Correctly identify needed ingredients and tools
4. Accurately put steps of slime making into a correct sequence
5. Successfully make slime at home and have fun!

Slime-Making Safety Precautions

Creating slime involves handling chemicals, so it is very important to be mindful of safety precautions. We have outlined four main safety measures for you to review carefully!

Description: Canva Infographics on the safety precautions for making slime

Slime Making Tutorial 😄

The Science Behind Slime

Now, are you curious to know how the slime can be created with such a simple list of ingredients? Let’s dive into the magic behind it!

Chemical Reaction between Glue and the Borax and water mixture

When glue, water, and a borax mixture are combined, magic happens! The glue contains small molecules called ‘polymers’. When you add the water and borax mixture, it helps the polymers in the glue stick together even more tightly. This is what makes the slime stretchy! It is like the glue molecules are holding hands with the water and borax molecules called borate ions, creating a fun and squishy compound called slime (Helmenstine)!

If you are interested in learning more about the chemical reaction, here is the advanced explanation! Please watch the video below from 1:29 to 1:51.

Description: Video on the chemical reaction behind making slime created by American Chemical

Here are some fun activities for you to test your knowledge!

Let’s see if you can put each step into the correct sequence! How carefully did you watch the video? 🎥🔍

Matching Game! Let’s have fun matching ingredients to the pictures! 🎨

This summarized task list is provided to enhance your passive learning experience! Keep it nearby and refer back to it as you progress to the next step 🙆🏻

To-Do List

1. Thoroughly review the Safety Precautions before starting your slime-making adventure!☢️☣️
2. Check out the Accordion for the secret ingredients and steps – it’s like following a treasure map to slime success!🗺
3. Watch the DIY slime video!🎥
4. Challenge yourself with cool activities like Matching Game ✅, Multiple choice questions 🔢 and Single Choice Set 💯– can you beat them all?
5. Now, let’s get messy and make some awesome slime! 🎊🎉

Created by Group B