Slime! An Instruction Sheet with Speech, Language, and Occupational Therapy Activities

Occupational Therapy Activities with Slime:

1. Tactile processing: Slime is a great way to explore a new texture and learn to tolerate messy play.
2. Fine motor skills: Knead, squish and mold the slime to work on hand strengthening, endurance and bilateral coordination. Hide and find small treasures in slime -like beads or sequins- to work on pincer grasp. Practice scissor skills by rolling the slime like a snake and cutting it.
3. Self-regulation: Use slime as a sensory break!
4. Planning/organizing: In order to complete the slime recipe, you need lots of planning skills; making a list of ingredients, collecting materials, following multi-step sequence, and keeping the workspace clean. Making slime is a great way to teach material management.

Speech and Language Activities with Slime:

1. Vocabulary/Action words: Take turns describing what the other person is doing; pouring, mixing, stirring, squeezing, kneading, squishing, etc.
2. Describing words/Adjectives: Use your senses as a guide. How does it feel? What does it look like? What does it sound like? How does it smell?
3. Sequencing vocabulary: As you follow the directions, use key words (first, next, then, last) to talk about what you are doing with each step.
4. Re-tell: Find someone to tell about the steps involved in making slime. 5. Predicting: Make a guess about how the slime will change or what it will do next.