#sloam

[image description: a small plastic square container of yellow slime sitting beside a partially-empty clear plastic bag containing rainbow (white, red, green, pink, blue, purple, orange, yellow) polystyrene balls, similar in shape and colour to round hundreds and thousands/coloured sprinkles--especially the kind used on fairy bread! The slime is an opaque yellow and studded with the balls, looking rather like cake batter mixed with coloured sprinkles. Both bag and box sit on a blue and white night-sky quilt cover with a black branch silhouette in the viewer’s bottom right-hand corner.]

Rainbow Polystyrene Mini Beads - eBay, $0.78 USD.

Item has free standard international shipping.

These are available in two different sizes (2.3-3.5 mm or 7-9 mm). The ones pictured above are the small size. I know there are micro polystyrene beads for floam-making, but these ones are slightly larger than standard coloured sprinkles, more akin to the size of sugar dagrees/cachous.

I know slime isn’t quite as fashionable anymore, but if you’re still interested in making your own floams or sloams and don’t mind waiting a few weeks for shipping, eBay has a wealth of options.

I bought the rainbow lot, and I adore the way they look so much like coloured sprinkles. They stick reasonably well to the slime; my only hassle, aside from scattering a few over my carpet, was that they ever so slightly tinged my white glue base a weird cream. I ended up adding the yellow food colouring to the slime after making it, just to cover up the dirty-looking cream.

I made two lots of sloam using approximately two-thirds of a cup of glue total, and there’s about a quarter of the bag remaining for my last craft project (a mini bean bag). If you’re planning to make several slimes or floams, or slimes in quantity for gifting or selling, I’d recommend purchasing several bags at once.

(I used Lincraft’s Creative Mates Craft PVA and borax solution, no extra water, for the above slime. It leaves a slight watery residue on my skin, like most slimes, but it doesn’t stick to my skin at all and took only a little kneading to come together. I will note that I have now seen Elmer’s Glue in Woolworths for $6 AUD a bottle, for Aussies having trouble finding a PVA that works, but all the craft shops and many of the dollar shops around me are now selling white craft PVA specifically for slime making. Honestly, I’d try their offerings first, because $6 for a small, 225ml bottle of glue is ridiculous.)