DIY slime is quite the hot topic right now. It’s a super fun way to keep kids occupied when it’s too hot or too cold to be outside. Floam is slime that has tiny little foam balls added to it, giving it a fun texture that kids love. I’m going to show you how to make homemade floam with a few simple ingredients! This is one of those easy crafts for kids you want to add to your regular rotation! This post was sponsored by O-Cedar via the Mom It Forward Influencer Network.
How to make homemade floam
Homemade slime (like our pumpkin slime for fall), cloud dough, play dough, and homemade floam are all fun things kids can make from household ingredients. Cleaning up after messy summer crafts, like DIY slime, can be a pain to tackle. From sticky glue to spilled glitter and food coloring – floors can be left a disaster.
Luckily, cleaning the floors can be simple with the EasyWring™ Spin Mop & Bucket System. It’s a fun and effortless way to tackle any deep or quick cleaning floor tasks. It’s actually really cool and the kids even ENJOYED cleaning up afterward! You’ll see below, but first, let’s make floam!
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What you’ll need for your DIY floam recipe:
- 4-ounce bottle of white glue (school glue works great)
- 3 teaspoons water
- 8-10 teaspoons craft starch or liquid starch
- Gel food coloring of your choice*
- 1/2 package Slime Ballz foam beads (cheaper at JoAnn’s)
*You could probably use liquid food coloring, but you tend to need a lot of it to make vibrant colors. That can also add too much liquid to your concoction.
Empty the 4-ounce bottle of white school glue into a bowl.
Add water and stir until combined.
Add starch, one teaspoon at a time, stirring after each addition. You will notice the glue getting thicker with each addition.
Add enough to get the “slime” to come together and pull away from the sides of the bowl.
Use a popsicle stick or a toothpick to take out a small amount of gel food coloring (1/8 teaspoon-ish) and stick it into the center of the slime glue mixture. We used plastic gloves to get the mixing started and finished off without the gloves. You’ll keep kneading the slime until the color is even.
Place slime back into bowl and add a handful of the Slime Ballz and mix them in with your hands.
Repeat this process until all the balls have been mixed in to make your floam!
Now usually after a project like this there’s going to be a mess. A fun part on this particular day was that the mop we used was so intriguing that all the kids wanted to help!
The cool spinning action of O-Cedar’s EasyWring™’s bucket and the effortless foot pedal was so fun to use. The kids wanted to help clean up after making their slime. So who was I to argue??
A fun afternoon of making homemade floam and then actually getting the kids to mop the floor? I’d say that was a serious win for the day.
The O-Cedar EasyWring™ Spin Mop & Bucket System is $39.99 available at retailers nationwide!
How to Make Homemade Floam
Supplies
- 4- ounce bottle of white school glue
- 3 teaspoons water
- 8-10 teaspoons craft starch or liquid starch
- Gel food coloring of your choice
- 1/2 package Slime Ballz
Instructions
- Empty the 4-ounce bottle of white school glue into a bowl.
- Add water and stir until combined.
- Add starch, one teaspoon at a time, stirring after each addition. You will notice the glue getting thicker with each addition.
- Add enough to get the "slime" to come together and pull away from the sides of the bowl.
- Use a popsicle stick or a toothpick to take out a small amount of gel food coloring (1/8 teaspoon-ish) and stick it into the center of the slime. We used plastic gloves to get the mixing started and finished off without the gloves. You'll keep kneading the slime until the color is even.
- Place slime back into bowl and add a handful of the Slime Ballz and mix them in with your hands.
- Repeat this process until all the balls have been mixed in to make your floam!
This post originally appeared here on Aug 6, 2018.
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Sue Charlton McEndree says
My great granddaughter would love this…. she plays with slime all the time! I’ll have to copy this recipe down & let her & her Mommy make it.!! Of course, they will make it at their house & I won’t have to worry about cleaning up the mess! LOL
Sabrina Snyder says
Wow, this looks so easy and fun! Need to do this before school starts!
Beth @ HungryHappenings says
Making Floam looks like a lot of fun for the kids and having them mop the floor looks like fun for the adult!!!
April says
love it! we homeschool so these are great ideas! thanks so much!
Amanda Formaro says
Thanks April! Definitely good for a homeschool science unit :)
Allyson Zea says
Wow!!! My son would seriously LOVE this!!!
Amanda Formaro says
The kids had a blast, it was so much fun!
Emily Thompson says
This looks like so much fun! We’ve never made floam and my kids would just love it. They probably would also love the mopping up ;o)
Amanda Formaro says
I hope you have a blast making and playing with the floam! And yes, of course mopping up will be a great time ;)
Marissa says
Oh perfect timing I was just looking for a fun project to do with teddy!
Jennifer says
PERFECT TIMING – Camp mom is out of ideas and it is raining today! Totally making this today!!! THANK YOU!
Amanda Formaro says
Great camp activity! :) Hope you have a fun time!