This week I joined a group called MOPS, and we did a fun quick craft making balls of soap. I thought it would be something my kids would really like doing, so I tweaked it a little to make it more interesting. Since we are having company for thanksgiving this year, I decided we would make some cute fall-themed soaps to display in the bathroom.
Supplies: Ivory soap, food coloring. cheese grater, sandwich bags, water, and waxed paper.
Grate the ivory soap using the really fine side. We tried it with the larger size, and it was harder to mix the color in to. (There's a picture of that attempt later).
Put a small amount into one of the sandwich bags to color green for the stems, then divide the rest into three separate sandwich bags. Add a drop of food coloring and just enough water to moisten the soap. Close the bag really well!
Mix the soap, water and food coloring until it is all incorporated.
Turn the orange soap out on to waxed paper and roll into a pumpkin shape. This part is going to be really messy!!!
Shape the green soap into stems, vines, and leaves if you want, and add them to the pumpkins.
The kids had so much fun doing this! We will definitely be doing it again. Here's a picture of our first attempt. We used the larger side of the grater, and you can see that the color didn't go all the way through the soap. We had some cookie cutters, so we rolled the soap out and cut out some cute shapes. This was a blast too!
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