Making Soaps

While visiting family over the winter break my daughters had fun playing with their cousins of similar age.  One the activities they worked on to keep busy was making soap using a soap making kit my niece received for Christmas.

The soap making kit.

This kit came with pre-made soap, but including other ingredients to make soap designs as well as lip balm and hand lotion.  They had fun making colored soap, but it was also an educational opportunity on how soaps are designed as well as how lip balm and hand lotion are made.  Given wind chill temperatures were 25 to 30 degrees below zero, it was also a great activity to keep the kids busy in the house!

Making soap hearts that will be embedded in a larger bar of soap.

Soap making is probably not my first choice for a science activity, but there's nothing wrong with it, and it does provide learning (and fun) opportunities or kids.