Today your kids can learn how to make easy bath bombs back to school craft. Set your homeschool up for success by starting off with something fun.
Enjoy a little science, art, math, and more while you make these homemade bath bombs with your kids for a little back to school routine fun.
They aren’t just for the kids though. Toss one in your next bath and ignore the banging at the door.
Bath bombs are easy to make.
And you definitely save a lot of money making them yourself at home, not to mention you can customize them for the season or occasion.
Back to School Craft for Kids
The back to school themed ones we’re making today, but you will want to tuck this tutorial away and revisit it to remake them anytime for gifts.
The kids will love making them and everyone appreciates homemade thoughtful gifts.
Besides being school themed, you can also match the scents to your needs. Need more calm in your day? Add lavender.
Want to focus? Peppermint and sweet orange will help.
Have headache that just won’t go away? Lavender, rosemary, and peppermint will help. Or, need a mood boost? Add lemongrass and sandalwood to your mix.
DIY Molds for Bath Bombs
In addition, you don’t have to make them in a special mold. Use whatever you have on hand like a cupcake pan or any silicone mold will do.
Just choose some of the oils I mentioned above for whatever you want to achieve relaxation, focus, calm, etc.
We are going to make fun paper themed ones.
Bath Bomb Ingredients
But first, look at these ingredients.
- 1 cup baking soda
- ½ cup cornstarch
- ½ cup Epsom salt
- ¼ cup citric acid
- 3 teaspoons coconut oil
- 25 drops essential oil
- Food Coloring Markers or Washable Markers
- Molds or cupcake tins
- Small spray bottle with water
Throughout making these bath bombs ask lots of questions to draw out your child’s curiosity and practice some practical living skills.
For example, we only have a ¼ measuring cup clean, how can we get ½ cup of cornstarch? What happens when the water combines with the citric acid? What is that called?
Research what each ingredient adds to the bath bomb and what are the properties of each one? Which are acids, which are alkaline? We are learning everyday, craft time is no exception.
Begin by mixing together well the dry ingredients which are Epsom salt, baking soda, cornstarch, and citric acid.
Stir in coconut oil and make sure all dry ingredients are coated completely.
How to Make DIY Bath Bombs
Add your essential oils and stir. Then stir a little more to be sure its evenly disbursed.
Now spritz your mixture lightly with water. You want to go slowly here because water will set your reaction of the citric acid off before you are ready, spritz a bit, stir mixture, spritz, stir, repeat until it is just barely damp.
What you want here is for it to stick together when you squeeze it but not dripping wet.
If you don’t have a spray bottle on hand, you can add water with a teaspoon, dribbling a small amount at a time.
Press the mixture firmly into your mold. Because my rectangle molds are very large and meant for big bars of soap I only filled them halfway but made sure to press the mixture in well.
Allow to harden, overnight is best to be sure it is dry completely through
Once firm, remove carefully from mold and turn it over. With smooth side up, make blue horizontal lines and a single pink vertical line down the left side to emulate the look of notebook paper.
You could also write messages on the paper too if you want to take it a step further.
Store bath bombs in a cool dry place until ready to use.
Don’t stop with just making these bath bombs. Gift them to friends, fellow homeschoolers, co-op teachers, and you could even make them in a co-op session for a fun activity.
This is a great group activity for a large or small gathering. Bag them up individually for a really cute gift
