For this fun twist on a traditional slime recipe, we combined our sand slime with our ocean slime to make a beach slime recipe! It’s one of our favorite summer slime recipes!
This fun beach slime recipe is a fun sensory activity for kiddos, and would make the perfect activity to go along with an ocean theme or under the sea STEM theme!
Preschoolers and older kids alike will love the texture differences between these two slimes and will have tons of screen-free fun playing with the slime and the ocean figurines.
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Fun at the Beach Slime Recipe for Kids
Your kids will have a blast playing with this stretchy, super-slimy, sandy slime. Try this activity after you collect some sand at the beach!
Slime Science for Kids
Read on to see how to make the very best beach slime recipe, but first, learn a little bit about the science behind the slime.
Slime is made when boron mixes with the polymer chains in the glue, creating strong, but flexible bonds between the molecules.
There are so many fun tweaks you can make to a basic slime recipe, like my kid’s favorite, best fluffy slime!
Since this slime does contain borax, if you have a sensitivity to it, you may want to try to learn how to make slime with baking soda slime instead.
How to Make Your Slime Beach a Success
If this is your first time making slime, you should follow along with our slime troubleshooting guide. Luckily,learning how to make slime with liquid starch is the easiest slime recipe.
If you don’t want to waste a lot of ingredients, try mixing up a small batch first to make sure you won’t have to tweak it before you make the larger version.
We always stock up on gallon sizes of glue and the large laundry starch just in case something goes wrong (but it almost always goes smoothly).
Follow these directions and you’ll have the best beach slime ever!
Beach Slime Supplies
You need just a few things to get started with this super fun beach sand slime recipe!
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- Sand
- Liquid laundry starch
- Elmer’s blue glitter glue
- Measuring cup
- Elmer’s clear glue
- Small ocean animals
- Cocktail umbrellas
- Borax powder
What to add to slime
Here are some fun things you can add to slime to make it more exciting no matter what recipe you use!
- Slime add-ins and toys
- Non-toxic slime scents
- Foam, foil, beads, sprinkles, and other popular slime add-ins in one organized set
- Polymer clay fruit and animal add-ins
- Slime sensory kit
- Slime rackets
- Fishbowl beads
- Instant snow powder
- Non-drying clay
And you always want to keep a bottle of slime reactivator on hand so your slime doesn’t get too sticky over time!
All-in-One Slime Kits
These slime craft kits include everything you need to make slime creation even easier!
All of these slime craft ideas show up right on your doorstep in just a few days!
More Summer Slime Ideas
Here are some other fun summer themed slime recipes to try!
How to Make Beach Slime with Real Sand
The Best Materials for Making Slime
Here is what you need to make every basic slime recipe on STEAMsational!
For this slime recipe, you mix two of our popular slimes- sand slime and ocean slime!
Follow the directions on how to make sand slime here.
Follow the directions to make our ocean slime recipe here.
Now, print the recipe and follow along below for how to make the coolest beach slime ever! Kids go nuts for this fun slime blend.
How to Make Slime that Looks Just Like the Beach
Sandy toes, sun-kissed nose and... slime? 🏖️ Yep, that's right! Get ready to mix it up with this DIY project: 'How to Make Slime that Looks Just Like the Beach'.
Materials
- Sand
- Liquid laundry starch
- Measuring cup
- Elmer's clear glue
- Small ocean animals
- Cocktail umbrellas
- Borax powder
Instructions
- Add about 1/2 a cup of sand to the basic 1:1: slime recipe with water, glue, and laundry starch. This will make your sand slime.
- For ocean slime, you'll just add blue food coloring and glitter to the same 1:1:1 slime recipe. Clear glue works better than white for beach slime.
- Once you have your beach slime and your sand slime, make one long tail of sand slime and one long tail of ocean slime.
- Twist them together to make a spiral that is half-brown, half-blue.
- You can also do like we did and make a little sand island surrounded by ocean slime!
- The texture of the sand slime makes it feel just like the wet sand at the beach, and the kids will love sinking the little animals and creatures right into the sand slime to make prints.
- The best part about using these specific slime recipes is that the ocean slime has a slightly different texture than the sand slime.
- This means that unlike other slime recipes, these two won't meld together right away.
- The separation remains, and you have two distinct layers in your slime that lasts for hours of play!
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