How to Make Chia Seed Slime
How do you make chia seed slime? Kids love to make a mess, and it doesn’t get much messier than homemade Chai Slime Recipe. However, there’s more to making it than simple fun.
This chia seed slime recipe is a fun and non-toxic alternative to traditional slimes. Plus, it’s a great way to explore science and nature with children, teaching them about the absorbing properties of chia seeds.
A child’s growth benefits greatly from sensory play, and slime is nothing if not sensory. Furthermore, kids may safely produce and play with this edible slime, seed sensory, and water sensory recipe, which is also simple to clean up! It contains edible seeds, such as chia or basil, which become gelatinous when cups of water are added.
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Ingredients for Chia Seed Slime Recipe:
What ingredients do you need to Make Chai Slime?
We 4x this recipe to create multiple colors of chai slime that can be mixed and played together.
1⁄4 C chia seeds – Black Chia Seeds (you can also use White Chia Seeds)
2 cups of water
Liquid Food coloring (Blue, Yellow, Red, and Green)
A scooper for chia seeds and a spoon for mixing.
4 Small clear mixing bowls.
You’ll also need a container for mixing.
How do you make Chia Seed Slime?
Gather all these sensory play materials on the table.
Add 1/4 cup of chia seeds to each small clear bowl and stir well.
Pour 2 cups of water into each bowl and mix it.
Put additional water as desired to achieve a gooey texture.
Add the Food coloring to each bowl.
Soak it for 2-3 hours or overnight in the refrigerator.
After soaking, you should have a sticky and gelatinous mixture, fun texture, or your texture preference as long as you know your kids will enjoy playing with it.
At this point, you can add more of your food coloring. You can use a wide variety of color choices. Use a light touch when adding food dye: you don’t want to make a fluorescent slime that stains everything it touches.
Once the colouring has been mixed in the slime, it should be thick enough so that you can begin kneading by hand. However, if you feel that it is not that sticky, you can still add a bit of water as desired.
Pour the mixture into a plastic container. Once it forms a solid lump that is stretchy, slimy texture, and pliable, then slime is ready.
This simple recipe creates slime, a great tactile experience for kids to stretch, shape, knead, squash, and mold for hours. In addition to being fun, this helps develop motor skills and acts as a mood calmer for fractious minds.
Because the chia is edible, it is perishable and should be refrigerated when not in use. It is better to discard it after about four days. The slime can be composted or planted in your garden because it is entirely biodegradable due to its natural constituent composition.
After the chai Slime is made, if the chia slime starts to dry out, wet your hands before kneading for a minute or two, and it’ll soon return to its stretchy and jelly slime.
Chia Seed Slime
Making slime is a fun and engaging way to bond with your kids. But adding Chia slime makes the fun extra fun and non-toxic!
Materials
- one fourth cup of Black Chia Seeds
- Water - need 2 cups
- Blue, Yellow, red and green food coloring
Tools
- Scooper
- Spoon
- 4 Bowls for Mixing ingredients
Instructions
- Bring out your mixing bowls. Put a quarter cup of Chia seeds into each bowl using your scooper.
- Add two cups of water to these bowls. Mix them well to achieve a gooey result. If it is not gooey enough, you can add more water.
- Add two to three drops of food coloring to each bowl. Make sure to use different colors in each bowl. This will make it more fun for kids to mix and match the colors of their Chia slimes.
- Put them in the refrigerator and let them soak for 2-3 hours or overnight. Take them out of the fridge after the allotted time, and you should have a gooey and gelatinous texture.
- If the color of your Chia seed slime is too pale, you can add more coloring. You can also go ahead and add in more colors. From vibrant hues to fun and experimental ones. The coloring should add to the slime's thickness, and you can start kneading with your hands. If it is not sticky enough, add water to achieve the desired consistency.
- Pour the slime into a plastic container. A solid lump is an indicator that the slime is ready. You can mix and match the colors into the container. If the slime is not used, put it in the fridge since the Chia seed is a perishable ingredient.
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