Soap Clouds

Yet another reason I LOVE Pinterest, the really cool science projects you can do with children!  I stumbled on soap clouds over at www.ourbestbites.com.  You can make these super cool creations with a bar of IVORY soap and your microwave.  Yep, that is all you need.  Our Best Bites site had lots of ways you could utilize soap clouds including breaking them back down and molding the soap into shapes.  However, I saw their picture and had a different idea in mind...

My youngest daughter has Market Day next week.  Each child has to make 25 of an item (of their choosing), decide on a price (hopefully based on cost), bring it to school and try to sell their item to students from the other classes at their "booth" (or desk).  No real money is exchanged, it's just an exercise for them to learn economics.  Every year we've been able to make food, but for some ridiculous reason we can't this year.  Which left me stumped.  So I decided if we can't make food, we'll make a product that looks like food and I think we did pretty well!  We bought IVORY soap bars, broke them into pieces, placed them in the microwave on high for 27 seconds and viola, soap clouds that we could pull apart into "popcorn" pieces.  This really is a great project that your child can do.  The soap easily breaks into pieces with a dull butter knife and it never gets to hot for them to touch!  It can be a little messy (with the soap pieces), but the kitchen smells good and everything is VERY clean when you are done!  We got about 3 popcorn boxes filled with 1 bar of soap.  I'm so excited for her to show her class and teacher! 

Candy Graduation Caps...

I haven't been posting because I am SLAMMED this spring.  Between Teacher Appreciation, PTA, swim team and cancer benefits I can't think straight.  I really don't have time to post this today...BUT these little suckers are all over Pinterest with no instructions and a link to SPAM.  So I figured this was an emergency;)  My daughter's teacher is graduating this weekend and this is her final degree...ever.  So I thought it would be nice to recognize it in someway.  You all know I'm not a great photographer - but I hope you get the picture.  If you want to make the candy graduation caps see below...

Here are the "ingredients" and I use that term oh so loosely.  Then you just use the chocolate icing to "glue" it together.  There are 18 squares in a Cadbury bar however those suckers break really easily when you are cutting them up.  SO do yourself a favor and buy double what you need.  You cut the Cadbury squares and stack them on top of the Reese's Mini's.  Then you pull the licorice string apart, cut them into small strips and use a brown mini M&M for the "tassel".  I squeezed the end of the licorice string so it would be flat and easier to "glue" using the icing on the top with the Mini M&M.  And there you go!