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Halloween Fright Night Movie Slime

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This fright night slime is perfect for Halloween and you are going to love the texture of this DIY Slime. My kids loved mushing this between their fingers and feeling the popcorn crunch as they played with the DIY Slime. You could make this slime in different Halloween colors too. The popcorn not only gave it a crunch but also a wonderful smell, such a tactile batch of Slime. I have to say we all enjoyed messing with it. Because it contains food, we suggest a play and throw out policy with this batch of Homemade slime. Once the popcorn is added this is a NON Edible slime. Please make sure your child understands that.

This tutorial is easy to follow as this SLIME recipe uses the no-fail method of Elmers glue.

Ingredients:
Elmer’s Glue
Elmer’s Magical Liquid
Shaving Cream (any brand is fine)

1 Snack pack of Cobs Popcorn

1 plastic eyeball

 

Method:
Step 1. Pour 4 oz of the Glue into a bowl.
Step 2. Add 1/2 cup shaving cream and mix well.
Step 3. Add 1/4 cup Magical Liquid and mix immediately and well.
Step 4. Once combined, take mixture out of the bowl and knead with hands until slime is not sticky and can be played with.      Step 5. Enjoy!

Looking for more DIY Slime recipes? Check out these other Slime posts we wrote.

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.

 

 

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Print out this corn number recognition activity from I Heart Crafty Things and use yellow dot stickers for kids to match and cover the numbers from 2 to 12 that they get when rolling dice. Or do some corn kernel math with these ideas from Gift of Curiosity. Kids can guess how many kernels are in a cup or bowl, then count them, and learn about grouping 5 or 10 kernels together and using skip counting to count faster if they’re ready for that. 

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I found a lot of printables that include the life cycle of corn and other activities, like this one from MomBrite, which includes a word search and other activities; or this 16-page Montessori inspired corn unit study that includes life cycle, labeling, three part cards and more from Only Passionate Curiosity; or the corn worksheets from Simple Everyday Mom, which includes writing practice, a letter identification maze and a label the parts of corn worksheet. 

Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus has a free for subscribers printable life cycle foldout that is a fun way to present the information. They used it in a sensory bin but you can just use it as a part of teaching about corn if you’d rather. 

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Kids Konnect has a set of printables and facts all about corn mazes, which is fun if going to a corn maze is part of your fall tradition. 

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