We like to make homemade gifts for the holidays. We wanted to try our hand at making bath bombs and soap but were not sure where to start. We bought a Bath Bomb Making Kit and a Lavender (Glycerine) Soap Making Kit from Calico Crafts, these are also available on Trademe.
Things you will need:
Bath Bomb Making Kit which includes the recipe, all ingredients and molds.
Lavender (Glycerine) Soap Making Kit which includes the recipe, all ingredients and molds.
The great thing about these kits is that you can use the recipes to make more, once you know what you are doing.
What the kids can do:
The bath bomb kit is super easy to use, just combine the dry and wet ingredients. Kids can do most of this themselves, though might need help with the measuring. Kids can help choose the scent and colour to personalise the bath bombs. We also included some dried flowers (feverfew) for decoration.
The soap kit is a melt and pour soap kit so avoids having to use any lye (which is dangerous, and I would not recommend using with children). You can buy more soap base separately if you want to make more soap. While adult help is required to melt the soap base in the microwave, this can be allowed to cool to a safe temperature before kits add other ingredients and stir them in. I also helped with the pouring (mainly to avoid too much mess) but bigger kids could handle this.
Keeping Them Occupied 