Slime Party

What is Slime Party?

Get ready for a day filled with fun, creativity, and learning as kids dive into the magical world of slime. Kids will get to explore different ways to make slime and create their own to take home. 

I came across this idea when browsing the Ontarian Librarian's blog. She outlined her program well and I took a lot of inspiration from her post. 

What I did to prepare

I purchased a lot of supplies. This event cost almost $100. You might be fortunate to already have most of the supplies but we didn't have a good stockpile on hand. This is a very messy program and we already had tarps that I used to cover the floor and table coverings. This was great for clean up so we didn't have to mop or clean the tables. The supplies I bought were cups, detergent, foam balls, a gallon of clear glue, instant snow, lotion, and soft clay. I bought items that were good for sensitive skin to make the event more inclusive. I also used stickers, sequins, aluminum trays, forks, measuring spoons, play dough toys, glitter, essential oils, hand wipes, food coloring, and shaving cream from our own stash. After I got all my supplies, I experimented with how each item affected the base slime recipe. I would highly recommend doing this yourself because my job at the event was to help troubleshoot slime issues. There's no way I would have been any help if I didn't experiment beforehand.

Set up

This is the room as a whole.

I set up the room into 4 areas. The first was the slime base table that had all the ingredients to make a regular old slime. We set out cups with lids that were pre-filled with glue, two pitchers of water, two cups of detergent, instructions, forks, and measuring spoons. We used two tables pushed together but I would recommend this to be your biggest area. Most of the guests' time was spent here but since we didn't have enough room they spilled over onto other tables which wasn't helpful when others wanted to use that table for what it was made to do. If you have the space, add a few empty tables with coverings around the room for people to work at. 

The second area was for playing with your slime. This table had trays, playdough supplies, and cookie cutters. This is your testing zone. Is the slime as stretchy as they wanted? Is the slime fun to play with? Does it smell good? All these questions and more were meant to be answered here. However, as I said before, this was turned into an expansion of the slime base table. It still worked really well and I did see quite a few kids having fun.

This next area was where the magic happened. I requested another staff member to help with this program and this is where they were. This is the add-ins table where we had all the cool stuff. We limited each slime creation to 3 add-ins, this didn't include color and smell. You can also see that I had a cart with extra supplies. I ended up going back to this cart about 50 times for glue, extra cups, and the like.

The final table was to decorate the outside of the slime containers. I included stickers and washi tape that we had to spare. I didn't buy anything new for this table and the kids still loved it. 

Takeaway

This was a fun event! We had about 50 people that were a combination of kids, teens, and adults. There were even some new faces. I had people in the room for the whole event and many didn't want to leave when time was up. If I do this again, I will have more tables for them to work at and another staff member to help with troubleshooting and crowd control.