In kid world, slime comes in multiple ooey-gooey forms: the kind made with glue that you can buy at the toy store that sticks to everything and ruins your brand-new area rug; the kind they make when ...

People inspired by social media to make homemade slime for fun -- and in some cases, profit -- are helping the bottom line of Newell Brands (NWL), the parent of Elmer’s Glue. That’s because the ...

2017 was the year slime took over Instagram. Gooey videos dominated the Explore page, slime-specific accounts racked up millions of followers, and enterprising teens who began mixing their own slime ...

What I like about slime is that it's about nothing. Instagram is filled with videos of the shapeless substance. They often begin with a glob of vibrant, wobbling slime on a white surface. Manicured ...

Angela Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning digital editor and storyteller who covered a variety of general interest stories on MNN (now part of Treehugger) from 2014-2019. If your local stores have ...

Kids buying up bottles upon bottles of glue for something they’re selling that’s been banned for sale at school maybe sounds like a thing that’d make a parent, um, nervous. Which makes the fact that ...

Full disclosure, I'm writing this with glitter stuck to my elbow and slime in my hair, because I just finished making this pastel masterpiece of a slime with my son who is now barefoot, shirtless, and ...

You just can't get glue to stick around right now. Bottles of the gooey white stuff are flying off the shelves as a kids' crafting craze is leading to temporary shortages. They're making "slime." It's ...