There can be weekends where students are unsure on what to do on campus here at Sonoma State. Student Involvements got you covered this week as they hosted their slime making craft workshop. For this event, which is part of their DIY Craft of the Week held every Saturday at 7 p.m. students were invited to come make slime and socialize with one another. Held in Weyden and Brewster, the tables came lined with all the supplies needed so that anyone could create their own slime masterpieces. 

Student Involvement provided the ingredients to make slime along with plastic containers, wooden sticks and spoons with a sticker so students could personalize their creation. The basic components of slime are glue,borax and some food coloring to make it unique. To help all the participants learn to make slime, a step by step guide was posted on the wall for Seawolves to follow. Students could be seen mingling amongst each other enjoying the crafting and the music playing. Participants were hard at work figuring out how to make the slime as it was some people’s first time ever making it for themselves. 

Slime became a worldwide hit around 2016 and teenagers everywhere were mixing it up at home for themselves. The trend has cooled off but it is still a very popular activity amongst young people so this event really got the students’ attention who went. When talking to freshman Victoria Valadez, she told me “I’m having fun making slime, it’s great that I’m getting to spend quality time with my friends as well as getting more involved in student life since this is my first year on campus.” When talking to another freshman student attending the event, Lauren Wieland said, “This is my first time making slime so I think it’s pretty cool that they put on an event for this, [Student Involvement] provided all the materials so they made it easy to just show up…  I was looking to do something fun this weekend and the slime making looked like an entertaining event to go with my friends.” These kinds of events are all about hanging out with friends, connecting to new people and most importantly, having fun. Not only did people get to socialize, they got to take home a “toy” that can even help with stress relief.

Student Involvement hosts plenty of fun events just like this one every week. Hailey Glass, who works for SI and was leading the event, said “This events goal was to get people out of their dorm this weekend, to meet new people and act as sort of an icebreaker for students coming and especially freshman, which helps them get more introduced to life here on campus at Sonoma State.” Whether you wanted to come to learn how to make slime or just hangout with some buddies and hopefully make some new friends along the way, this DIY workshop was a blast for everyone.