Slime Day

What is Slime Party?

Make slime at the library! I did this event last year as well and you can read about how that went here.

Description: 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. This is going to get messy!

What I did to prepare

I purchased a lot of supplies again. This has been my most expensive event this year. The good news is that it's mostly common items such as stickers and glue. I bought 2 gallons of clear glue, 1 gallon of slime activator, 200 containers with lids, clear filler beads, food coloring, tiny food charms, and rhinestones. This was around $150. I already had shaving cream, lotion, essential oils, pompoms, tiny foam balls, and glitter. For other supplies that did not go into the slime, I had aluminum trays, measuring spoons, play dough toys, and stickers.

Now, I listed many items here. However, I believe I can confidently tell you want are the best items to have. First off, I used water and detergent last year but slime activator was far simpler. Kids had an easier time of getting a good ratio of two items instead of three. This also made it easier for me to help guests if they were having issues with their slime. Shaving cream, lotion, glitter, and food coloring were the most popular add ins. If this is all you have, it would still go great! The items that were barely touched were the filler beads, rhinestones, and pom poms. 

Set Up

The set up was similar to last year with the 4 separate areas. I added more tables for guests to work at and had chairs available for parents to sit. The first area was where guests could make their base slime. This had cups, glue, activator, measuring spoons, and instructions. I pre-filled about 40 cups. I used 5 tables pushed together. I started with two pitchers with the activator and this was not enough. The guests used the extra empty cups to make it easier to get the activor to everyone. Since you need so little activator, this worked really well. It would be good to have 10 or more pitchers or cups spread out to start with clear labels. 

The second area was "Play with your slime." I had playdough toys out like rollers and plastic cutters along with aluminum trays. This is a testing zone where they could see if their slime was fluffy enough or if it needed more glitter. The area also had 5 tables and was mainly used as a workstation. 

The next area is where the magic still happened. We had all the add ins at this table. I had another staff member help out with this table again. They helped with giving out food coloring and glitter to help keep the mess low. We had our extra supplies on the cart here as well.

The last area was to decorate the outside of the containers. We had a ton of stickers that we didn't have any ideas for so, this was like a stash buster for us! This table was lots of fun.

Takeaway

This event was very fun. I had 61 people come that were mostly kids and we had teens and adults too. Almost everyone stayed for the whole hour and only thought about leaving when I gave a 10 minute warning. If I do this again, I'd like to try a different table set up so there is more walking room. I would also like to have a staff member that helped with slime questions and with the add in table after it gets busy. I would also have more activator cups at the base slime table. All in all, it was well worth the money and attention it got!