Handmade Soaps: Craft Ideas for Children

Making handmade soaps with children is easy and a lot of fun and is a perfect afternoon activity for those cold January days when you'd rather stay at home. They also make wonderful gifts from the kids for auntie's or grandma's upcoming birthday. The best part is to see your kids proud little faces when they see what they have accomplished.

What you need

100% Pure glycerin soap (you can find this in any well-sorted craft store)
Molds (we used some silicone cupcake forms and glasses)
Ingredients, you can use whatever you like. In our sample we have used lavendar, pine needles from our Christmas Tree, pressed flowers (leftovers from the last summer) & pomegranate seeds to add some rich colour.

How it works

Cut the glycerin soap into small blocks and place them into a glass. Melt the soap by placing the glass in either a hot bath on the stove or in the microwave for a couple minutes.
The soap is now liquid and can be slowly poured into the molds. Layer ingredients and soap until your soap has reached its perfect size.
Let it dry.
The soaps can be easily removed from the silicone molds once dry or can be tapped out with the help of a knife out of the glass.
Done!

Enjoy your handmade soaps!

Easter Egg crafting

When it comes to crafts, my children love three things: stickers, lots of glue and watercolors. How about your kids? I bet they would have loved our craft afternoon too. Ava found some pretty stickers and colorful craft paper at our local craft store which we planned to use for our special Easter eggs. Take a look at her beautiful eggs below, every single one crafted with lots of love and lots of glue.

First we had to blow out the eggs! You need to make a little hole into the top and the bottom of the egg with a needle or egg puncher, then carefully holding the egg, blow into the top hole pushing the yolk and egg white out through the bottom.

We inserted a kebab stick through the two holes of the empty egg shells to have a better grip on them and started decorating our eggs.

Ava loves these flower and butterfly stickers on her egg.

Another one got painted with lots of glitter glue.

And some others were painted beautifully with watercolor.

We rolled the eggs with glue on it in colored paper.

And let them dry.

 

Of course we had to put stickers on to the painted eggs as well.

Aren't they lovely?!

Need an idea for dinner? How about scrambled eggs?