Homemade Bathtub Paints

Oh, so much fun. This is a recipe I have wanted to do for a long time! So simple... and, yet I kept forgetting to buy clear liquid dish soap from the grocery store or Target. Well, I finally remembered and the girls were nice and filthy and ready for a long bath! So, this is what I found:

Pro's:

• easy to make
• worked very well
• the girls had a blast!
• clean-up caused there to be a ton of bubbles...(What kid doesn't like bubbles?)
  

Con's:

• clean-up caused there to be a ton of bubbles...(What mom wants to cleanup all those bubbles?)
• I'm not sure this is one I want to do all that often, just because I wonder how "healthy" for their skin it is to sit in all that dish soap... not sure?

Conclusion: Pro's outweigh the cons, and we will definitely do this again... someday!

Here's the recipe for you to try:

1/3 cup clear liquid dish soap
1 Tbsp. corn starch
food coloring.

Colored Ice

Bath time is always a nice time of day... the sound of giggling girls, the smell of clean toddlers, and the thought that bedtime is next! We've done our own bathtub paints before, but decided to do something a little different this time... Colored ice cubes for the bathtub! Really, they're just food coloring and water frozen into ice cube trays.

Good: * the girls thought they were so much fun
* they were easy to make and easy to clean-up

Bad: * you have to remember to make them in the morning so you can freeze them
* the bathtub water looked black afterwards, (but still didn't stain or leave a mess!)

On another note, we should be getting our new camera by Thursday! Woohoo! Hopefully that will get me back into my blogging groove.