• 4 oz. Elmer’s Washable Glitter Glue
• 1/2 tbsp baking soda
• 1 tbsp Contact Lens Solution (must contain Boric Acid)
• bowl
• spoon

The activating ingredient in these kid-safe Elmer’s slime recipes is contact lens solution, but you need contact solution that lists boric acid as one of its ingredients.  It’s the boric acid that makes it possible to make slime without using Borax.

Pour 4 oz. of your glitter glue into a bowl. A bottle of Elmer’s Glitter Glue is 6 ounces, so you won’t use quite all of it. We didn’t measure; we just eyeballed it, leaving about a half-inch of glue remaining in the bottom of the bottle.

And now, for the magic ingredient – the contact lens solution! Prepare to be amazed!

Add your contact lens solution to the glue and baking soda mixture. Immediately, your glue will start to congeal and turn to slime. Stir the slime ingredients around until most of the contact solution is mixed in, and then get your hands in there and start kneading it.

The slime may stick to your fingers at first, but you can just give your hands a squirt of contact lens solution, and it will slip right off.