Homemade Bath Crayons

I’ve been scouring Pintrest recently looking for activities that I can do with ‘the lil monster and as mentioned on my Facebook page, decided we would try and make our own homemade bath crayons yesterday.

I came across a pin which originates from a blog by Ehlane O’Connor 

littlecrunchymama.blogspot.com  

She tells you to ’Buy Some glycerin soap at a craft store.  Melt it in the microwave, add food colouring and pour into a mold.  I used an ice cube tray.  You can also add essential oils if you like, though I find it unnecessary for crayons. Takes about an hour to cool completely, then pop out of the mold and you have crayons’   Sounds easy right?

WRONG!!  I’m not entirely sure where it all went wrong, maybe it’s because I bought a branded glycerin soap from the supermarket instead of a craft store (would it even be any different?!) either way, our crayons did not turn out like Ehlanes!!

Ingredients:

Bar of glycerin soap

Food colouring 

I started by grating the soap on the finest side of the grater

Then melted it in a jug over hot, but not boiling water.

I stirred continuously with some old chopsticks until it had all melted, then poured between 4 old shot glasses.  I added a few drops of food colouring to each glass and mixed well.  The colours looked amazing, although the pink crayon mix looked identical to the red mix!

I then poured each glass into my ice cube tray, pressed the contents firmly in then left it all to cool for a few hours.

All steps from pouring the melted soap mix into the shot glasses onwards were awkward as the soap began to set immediately on being taken off the heat!!  It started to go lumpy as I mixed the colours in too.

We set it all aside for a few hours so it could fully harden, then when it was time for the 'lil monster to go in the bath, we popped them out of the molds.  


It’s easy to spot which of the 4 colours was mixed first and which was mixed up last!!

                                             

It wasn’t only the texture  that left a lot to be desired though!  My ‘lil monster was soooo excited to play with the crayons, so you can imagine her disappointment when there was hardly anything to see!!   I will have to play around with the recipe and method a little to try and find a better and more descriptive way of making the crayons for next time….I’ll keep you posted, but in the meantime, why don’t you let me know where you think we went wrong and/or what you think I could have done for a better result….

 

I’ve also started work on up-cycling an old tee.  Again, this is from a pin I found on Pintrest.…I haven’t taken any pics of it yet as the tee shirt I’m using at the mo is just to use as a template so I can get it right before starting on the gigantic heavy metal tee (I love putting a girly twist on this kind of stuff!)  I bought on ebay.co.uk for just 99p!!  Photo’s and steps will follow once I've finished the heavy metal one!!!