As promised, over the next week or so I'll be sharing our homemade gifts. Feel free to rip off any ideas. Afterall, it's never to early to begin working on next year's Christmas list (especially when you are handmaking gifts.)
This year, I really wanted to begin teaching Anne how meaningful it can be to handmake gifts. So we started with making "surprise" soap snowballs. I got this idea here.
Basically, you grate Ivory soap, put it in a bowl, add water and have your little one make snowballs around small toys.
We
hid plastic rings, rubber balls and small farm animals inside these
snowballs. I love this craft because it's actually something her little
friends can use and play with in the tub.
I wrote a poem to attach the bags (feel free to copy).
Here's a snowball for some fun,
But it will melt in the bath, not in the sun.
So jump in the tub and sing “rub-a-dub-dub,”
This snowball will give you a bubbly scrub.
And when the soap-snowball melts away,
You'll have a little prize for which to play.
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