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How to Make Galaxy Slime – Preschool Space Activities

ByBeth Gorden
Looking for a fun way to keep your kids entertained? Check out this super cool galaxy slime! This mesmerizing homemade slime recipe is sure to captivate preschoolers imagination for hours. The unique texture  of this diy slime recipe combined with the vibrant colors that resemble the breathtaking beauty of outer space make it a fun space activity for kids of all ages. Let me show you how to make galaxy slime and you can get started playing and learning!
 

Looking for a fun way to keep your kids entertained? Check out this super cool galaxy slime! This mesmerizing homemade slime recipe is sure to captivate preschoolers imagination for hours. The unique texture  of this diy slime recipe combined with the vibrant colors that resemble the breathtaking beauty of outer space make it a fun space activity for kids of all ages. Let me show you how to make galaxy slime and you can get started playing and learning!

Galaxy Slime

Kids love playing with slime! They love all the tactile experience they get with this unique play recipe that stretches, molds, oozes in a way unlike any other activity. Now add to it that slime is actually good for kids to play with as it strengthens hand muscles, causes children to work with scientific principles like cause-and-effect, and the fun expression of creativity and you have a winner! Parents, teachers, and homeschoolers alike will be looking for homemade slime ideas to learn with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and elementary age students. Our galaxy slime takes the fun of slime and amps it up with vibrant, out-of-this-world colors and fun. This space slime would be a wonderful addition to your space theme or as solar system activities for kids!

All you need are a few simple materials to whip up a batch of this gorgeous galaxy slime: clear glue water fine purple glitter food coloring laundry starch (like Sta Flo)

Galaxy Slime Ingredients

All you need are a few simple materials to whip up a batch of this gorgeous galaxy slime:

  • clear glue
  • water
  • fine purple glitter
  • food coloring
  • laundry starch (like Sta Flo)

colors of galaxy slime

Galaxy Slime recipe

In a bowl mix 1/2 a cup of water and food coloring; repeat with each bowl so you ahve a bowl with purple water, a bowl of red water, and a bowl of blue water.
 
mix colored water and purple glitter

How to Make Galaxy Slime

Add in fine purple glitter to teach bowl. I eyeball how much but a teaspoon or so.

add glue to colored glitter water mixture

Glitter galaxy slime

Next mix in 1/2 cup of glue to each bowl and stir.

mix in the activator - liquid starch

Space Slime

Finally, mixin 1/2 a cup of laundry starch (like Sta Flo) to each bowl and stir with a fork.

blue purple and red slime

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Once the three colors of slime are stretchy and no longer cloudy, it’s time to mix them together.

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Preschool space activities

Kids will love the sensory play with this slime as they explore how it looks slimey, but no mess! My kids loved seeing how translucent the slime was, but so colorful at the same time! Beautiful!

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How to make slime for kids

The more you play and stretch with the slime, the more galaxy like it will be with the colors starting to mix and blend together

Space Activities for Preschoolers

THe more you play, the different the color of the galaxy slime becomes. I think this is so cool, like our solar system things are always moving and change. But just so you understand, after they have mixed together completely, your slime will develop a solid purple color.

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My kids loved watching the slime ooze and pool as they stretched and molded it! THis is wonderful for strengthening hand muscles and working on coordination!

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Children can make impressions of their hands, space objects or planets. You can reinforce space volcabulary like th enames of planets, constellations, space shuttle, telescope, etc.

glitter galaxy slime

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In addition it is great for exploring cause and effect of how it flows, color mixing, etc. Slime is truly a super educational activity for kids. And if you keep it all at the kitchen table, it is low mess too!

Looking for a fun space activity to captivate your kids' imagination? Check out this mesmerizing galaxy slime recipe that creates a unique texture with vibrant colors resembling outer space - it's sure to keep them entertained for hours! Let me show you how to make it and get started playing and learning!

Solar system activities for preschoolers

Galaxy Slime is not only a fun space activity for preschoolers, but an educatioanl, epic acitivity to captivate their imagination!!

 

Looking for a fun space activity to captivate your kids' imagination? Check out this mesmerizing galaxy slime recipe that creates a unique texture with vibrant colors resembling outer space - it's sure to keep them entertained for hours! Let me show you how to make it and get started playing and learning!
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Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of Preschool Play and Learn. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! Beth is also the creator of 123Homeschool4Me.com and kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com where she shares more than 100,000 pages of FREE worksheets,& educational ideas for PreK-8th grade.

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