How do you make slime? here is how you make some slime: basic slime for beginners: elmer’s white school glue: or cray-z art glue. next get two bowls. one medium sized bowl and one small. fill the medium bowl with your glue, and add in lotion, 5 squirts of any soap, and possibly pigment, paint or food dye. in the small bowl put a good amount of hot water, and 3 pinches of borax. if you don’t use borax you can use staflo, or baking soda+contact solution or tide. {borax: take a 2 teaspoons of the powder and mix in a small bowl of hot water.} mix all your ingredients together once your borax powder has been dissolved.