Henry’s 3rd grade class has “Family Fridays” where parents or guardians are invited to come to school and lead the class in an activity. Last year, we made awesome Sharpie tiles. That project was relatively inexpensive and not too messy. This year, Henry almost wanted to repeat that project. But then he decided he wanted to make slime. Thus began my journey to figure out how to make slime with a large group of children.

We went straight to the slime recipe book we got for Christmas. I made a bee-line for the simplest, cheapest, least messy recipe in the book. Fortunately, it was also cool!

Even though I … Read More