Mother's Day "Craft" Gifts

A little epsom salt...water..food coloring..and essential oil

Equals= Bath Bombs

We made some large and some small

Pretty :)

We also thru in a pot and matching gerbera daisies

We worked all week on simple..yet time consuming Mother's Day craft. Every year we "make" something for the Grandma's and Aunt Kim for this holiday. I still buy gifts for them but they love getting something from the heart that we have spent time making. I think they are curious now every year what I will come up with. I found this Bath Bomb recipe on Martha Stewarts facebook page and we ran with it! Simple ingredients but the actual drying time made it a little bit harder to make as many as we were making. We had to wait for molds to dry completley (about 24 hours each side) so we could then re-use them to make another batch. But we managed and they turned out great! Not to mention how lovely my house smelled from the essential oil tangerine/lychee that we used :) The recipe is below if you would like to make your own. I purchased everything at Michael's except the epsom salt & food coloring.


Tools and Materials

2 cups Epsom salts
2 tablespoons water
A few drops essential oil(s)
1 drop food coloring, plus more if desired
Special equipment: plastic pipette, large or small round bath-ball molds, storage jars

Directions

1. Stir together Epsom salts and water in a mixing bowl. Using pipette, add oil, 1 drop at a time, until strength of scent is to your liking. Add food coloring, 1 drop at a time, until desired shade is achieved; stir until color is even throughout.

2. Spoon a generous amount of mixture (more than necessary) into 1/2 of a bath-ball mold. Pack firmly. Repeat, packing mixture into second half of mold. Press pieces together until they connect. Remove top half of mold very carefully. Let bath ball stand, mold side down, overnight (set ball on an overturned jar lid to keep it from tipping over).

3. Remove mold carefully. Invert, and let ball dry completely, 1 to 2 days more. Transfer to jars.