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This fluffy slime recipe is easy to make at home! Here are the recipe and step-by-step instructions for how to make fluffy slime yourself.

Updated July 2025

After finding this fluffy slime recipe on YouTube, our studio has been turned into a laboratory for making and experimenting with slimes. We’ve made about a dozen batches in a rainbow of colors.

We’ve always been big fans of sensory play materials, but lately, it’s been about the homemade slimes and putties.

This fluffy slime is stretchy, putty-like stuff that is fun to knead and play with it. You can even make balloons and balls with it!

Each batch is a little different with slightly different properties of stretchiness, fluffiness, and non-stickiness depending on the amounts of extra glue, shaving cream, eye contact solution, etc. that we add.

And, of course, we’ve been working to get the perfect colors and tints by adding and mixing food coloring (and liquid watercolors in a couple of cases).

Here’s a video showing you how to make fluffy slime. And keep scrolling for the recipe and step-by-step instructions.

How to Make Fluffy Slime

Makes about 1 cup of slime.

Ingredients

• 1 bottle of Elmer’s white glue*
• Shaving foam (we love this shaving foam from Target)
• Borax solution (1 cup warm water with 1 teaspoon borax, mixed until clear)
• Eye contact solution (optional but recommended)
• Food coloring or liquid watercolors
• Essential oils (optional)

*Or, if you’re going to be making lots of slime, you might want to consider buying your glue by the gallon.

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Also, if you don’t want to track down all the ingredients for slime, you can buy slime kits now! Here’s a fluffy slime starter kit by Elmer’s that is well rated on Amazon.

Time needed: 30 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Start with glue

   Squeeze one bottle of white glue into a medium bowl.

2. Add shaving foam

   Stir in 1/2 cup to 1 cup of shaving foam, depending on how fluffy you want your slime to be.

3. Add color

   Stir in food coloring until you reach your desired color.

4. Mix in contact solution

   Add a few squirts of contact solution (this makes it less sticky).

5. Add borax solution

   Make a borax solution of 1 cup warm water with 1 teaspoon borax, mixed until clear. Add this solution a teaspoon at a time until the mixture forms a clump in the bowl.

6. Knead

   Use your hands to knead your fluffy slime!If it’s too sticky, add more contact solution. If it seems to need more glue or shaving cream or color, you can knead that in, too.And, if you want your slime to be scented, knead in a few drops of essential oil.

7. Have Fun!

   Store in a covered container or plastic bag to keep it from drying out.

Fluffy slime is a great sensory material to hold, squeeze, stretch, and fiddle with.

We love to mix colors together to make swirly slime. And we’ve even added sprinkles to ours before!

How about you? Have you made your own putty, slime, or gak? Maybe now is the time!

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This fluffy slime recipe is easy to make at home! Here are the step-by-step instructions for how to make fluffy slime yourself.

Ingredients

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• • 1  bottle of Elmer’s white glue*

• • Shaving cream (the foam kind, not the gel or cream kind)

• • Borax solution (1 cup warm water with 1 teaspoon borax, mixed until clear)

• • Eye contact solution (optional but recommended)

• • Food coloring (optional)

• • Essential oils (optional)

*Or, if you’re going to be making lots of slime, you might want to consider buying your glue by the gallon.

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Instructions

1. Squeeze one bottle of white glue into a medium bowl.
2. Stir in 1/2 cup to 1 cup of shaving foam, depending on how fluffy you want your slime to be.
3. Stir in food coloring until you reach your desired color.
4. Add a few squirts of contact solution (this makes it less sticky).
5. Make a borax solution of 1 cup warm water with 1 teaspoon borax, mixed until clear. Add this solution a teaspoon at a time until the mixture forms a clump in the bowl.

6. Use your hands to knead your fluffy slime! If it’s too sticky, add more contact solution. If it seems to need more glue or shaving cream or color, you can knead that in, too.

7. If you want your fluffy slime to be scented, knead in a few drops of essential oil.

8. Have Fun! Store in a covered container or plastic bag to keep your fluffy slime from drying out.

More Slime Recipe & Play Ideas for Kids

• How to Make Slime without Borax
• 5 Fun Fluffy Slime Recipe Ideas
• How to Make Glitter Slime for Kids
• How to Make Slime Creations for Kids
• How to Make Oobleck
• The Ultimate Guide to Sensory Play

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