Halloween Blood Slime

This DIY Slime is the perfect activity for a Halloween party or for a Halloween Party prop. Make Dracula his own dripping blood to walk the streets with. This Blood Red Halloween Slime is going to be a big hit!

Slime is a great sensory activity for Kids of all ages.

What happens when you make slime? Apart from a gooey mess I mean. The glue has an ingredient called polyvinyl acetate, (PVA Glue) which is a liquid polymer. The borax or liquid starch depending on which you use connects the polyvinyl acetate molecules to each other, creating one large conjoined flexible polymer.

Slime is making a comeback this year so be sure to include some slime in your Christmas gift lists. We created this roundup of 30+ Christmas themed slimes you can DIY including Free printable slime gift tag labels.

1/4 cup of water

1/2 cup of clear glue or 1/2 cup of white school glue
Red Food coloring
Disposable Plastic Cups and spoons
1/4 cup of liquid starch (laundry section of Supermarket)

Directions:

Pour glue into a plastic cup, add the food coloring and mix well with the spoon.

Add your liquid starch. You need to work fast as the slime will start to form immediately. Stir for about 20 seconds, then take out of the cup and start kneading the mix, it will be sticky at first but will start coming together.

The mixture will start to thicken immediately. If it is still sticky add a few more drops of the liquid starch, keep doing this until it all comes together.

Store in an air-tight container.

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Slime is a great stress reliever as well as an educational tool, not only does it teach science but it is hands-on , which means children are using their fine motor skills to make and or play with slime.

Check out our Amazon gift guide for kids who love slime, we basically sourced all the best Slime gifts, Slime kits, Slime supplies and Slime merchandise and crammed it all into one gift guide. Slime Lovers Gift Guide.

Kids all seem to go through a phase of loving trivia, and if you’ve got kids who want to know about the tallest, biggest and weirdest things in nature, they’ll enjoy the book Once in a Blue Moon by Emily Hawkins.

The book explores wonders of astronomy, meteorology, big trees, weird animals, volcanoes and more to show off the rarest events and phenomena in the natural world.

Kids ages 7-10 will learn about the lake (Lake Hillier, on an island off Australia) that has water that’s bubblegum pink, the world’s deepst came (Veryovkina Cave in the country of Georgia) and the world’s biggest tree, a banyan in southeast India with a canopy that covers more than five acres!

Readers will learn what a blue moon is, how supernovas happen and about Haley’s comet and solar eclipses, among other space-related phenomena. Closer to home they’ll learn about stinky flowers, bleeding trees, glowing fungi and pizzly bears.

There’s content about times when it’s rained frogs (and when frogs have exploded en masse), when snow made giant snowballs all by itself and how clouds stack on themselves like pancakes. The book also explores ball lightning, sun dogs, St. Elmo’s fire and more.

I love books like this and I know kids do, too. There’s so much weird and wonderful about our world and even as adults we don’t know about all of these things. I found it fun to learn, for example, that there’s a volcano on the island of Java that not only sends out blue flames from vents near its crater, it’s also home to an acidic lake.

Illustrations by Vlad Stankovic illuminate these weird natural wonders and are sure to get kids interested in learning more about some of these remarkable animals, plants, rock formations and more.

About the book: 80 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $30.

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