How to Make Bath Bombs with Kids

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Create Colorful and Fizzy Bath Bombs with Your Little Scientists!

Mix the lavender essential oil and green food coloring into the dry ingredients of the bath bomb. This is a fun hands-on STEAM activity for kids.

Main Idea

Children also enjoy taking a bath with fizzy bath bombs! We found a great YouTube video that shows how easy it is, so we decided to try it.

Activity Prep

(What we used)

  • We followed the recipe from this YouTube video, which was easy to understand and follow.

  • We used safety glasses

How We Made

Refining clumpy baking soda to create a finer texture for DIY bath bombs is a fun hands-on STEAM activity for kids.

We started by gathering all the dry ingredients. Our baking soda was hard and clumpy, so we sifted it to make it finer. Since we used citric acid, we wore safety glasses to protect our eyes, just in case.

After refining clumpy baking soda to create a finer texture for making DIY bath bombs, we mixed in Epsom salt. We wore safety glasses just in case.
We mixed all the dry ingredients for making DIY bath bombs, and the texture is smoother and finer than before after sifting.

We mixed all the dry ingredients.

We combined all the dry ingredients to make DIY bath bombs and added a mixture of lavender essential oil with green food coloring for scent and color.
Incorporating lavender essential oil and green food coloring into the dry ingredients makes for a fun STEAM hands-on activity for kids.
We combined all the dry ingredients to make DIY bath bombs and added a mixture of lavender essential oil with green food coloring for scent and color.

We chose to make the bath bombs green and lavender-scented. They smell so good and soothing!

The mixture for the DIY bath bombs is ready, making it a more enjoyable activity for kids. They can mold the mixture using soap molds and plastic Easter egg shells.

After finishing the mixing, it was time to mold them. We shaped some into balls using a soap mold and others into egg shapes with my son's plastic Easter eggs.

After we made all the bath bomb shapes using soap molds and plastic Easter egg shells, they looked great to us and worked well at bath time!

We recommend waiting long enough. We got too excited and didn't wait long enough, so some broke apart. Most of the bath bombs came out very nice, though!

We used them for bath time, and it worked!

You can explain to your child why it gets fizzy when you use a bath bomb in the bathtub. The fizzing effect of a bath bomb in water happens because of a chemical reaction between citric acid and baking soda when they touch the water. Then, this reaction produces carbon dioxide (CO₂), which creates the fizzing bubbles they see!

Source URL

Youtube Video DIY | Perfect Bath Bomb Recipe

Disclaimer

The recipe and instructions for this bath bomb have been sourced from YouTube Channel WhatsUpMom. Full credit goes to the original creator for their excellent content and creativity. This site aims to provide educational materials while respecting contributors' intellectual property. For the original video and more resources, visit DIY | Perfect Bath Bomb Recipe.

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