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Christmas Science Projects: Cool Peppermint Slime

Make your Christmas a science Christmas with the Christmas science projects featuring peppermint slime recipes! Minty science fun for kids!

We’re big fans of Christmas science projects (and slime), so of course, we had to make Christmas slime!

To me, no scent says Christmas more than mint, so we made our slime mint-scented for a festive smell as well as look! Read on to see how to make your very own Christmas minty slime!

Make your Christmas a science Christmas with the Christmas science projects featuring peppermint slime! Minty science fun for kids!

Related: Christmas STEM Challenges and Science Experiments

 

Christmas Science Projects: Cool Peppermint Slime

Make your Christmas a science Christmas with the Christmas science projects featuring peppermint slime! Minty science fun for kids!

This slime will keep your kids entertained for hours and it smells great, too!

Ingredients

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  • White school glue (4 ounce size)
  • Green food coloring
  • Peppermint essential oil
  • Borax powder

Make your Christmas a science Christmas with the Christmas science projects featuring peppermint slime! Minty science fun for kids!You can make slime without borax powder, but we love the stretchy texture of borax slime. We don’t have anyone left in our house that eats slime, so we don’t worry so much about the borax content. If you are making this slime for small kids, you might want to use our cranberry slime recipe as your base instead.

 

Mix 1 cup of water with a teaspoon of borax powder. We always use warm water to make the borax dissolve into the water faster.

Mix your glue in a bowl with an additional bottle-full of warm water.

Add your food coloring and essential oil drops to the borax water.

Make your Christmas a science Christmas with the Christmas science projects featuring peppermint slime! Minty science fun for kids!

If you want to make white and green slime like we did, separate your glue and water into two bowls. Just dye one bowl of water and keep the other white. We added scent to both of our colors.

Add the glue mixture to the borax mixture and mix it up with your hands. The longer you leave the glue in the mixture the stiffer it will be. We like to take ours out when it is still stretchy. We don’t like slime that breaks easily.

Once the slime is formed, you’re ready to play! Kids can play with the slime however they liked. This time, my kids wanted to pretend the slime was candy canes. They twisted the green and white slime together and made candy canes.

Make your Christmas a science Christmas with the Christmas science projects featuring peppermint slime! Minty science fun for kids!The slime does merge together if you twist it like we did, so once it’s together, it is together forever. If your kids are bothered by that, just stick to one color of slime or keep them separated.

 

Find out more about the science behind slime and polymers here.

 

Make your Christmas a science Christmas with the Christmas science projects featuring peppermint slime! Minty science fun for kids!

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Filed Under: Christmas, Seasonal, STEM Tagged With: christmas, science, stem

About Brenda Priddy

I'm Brenda, a writer and mom to two girls (10 and 4) from Dallas, TX. My passions are STEM activities, hands-on learning, and finding creative ways to teach kids with ADHD. Also, coffee. Always coffee.

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Comments

  1. Shelly says

    12 at 10:53 pm

    My kids love making anything that is gooey. They will have so much fun with this. You always have the best ideas!

    Reply
  2. Erin says

    12 at 7:10 am

    Polymers are such fun! Love the candy cane slime!

    Reply

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