Mother's Day Gifts in Process

You've all received your gift, so now I can show you how they were created. Take a couple of cups of Epsom salts, and add four or five drops of essential oil. (Ours was rosemary. I went in intending to purchase something floral, but the rose oil was close to $50 for a tiny bottle!! Um, no.) And then you stir.

Add food colouring of your choice, another 4 or 5 drops. Owen wanted green, Eliana and Milan both chose red. We counted our drops very carefully. And then stir some more.

When the colour is mixed in sufficiently, you smooooooth the salt onto cookie sheets to dry overnight. This is supposed to prevent clumping. What it did do was have my entire kitchen REEKING of rosemary to such an eye-watering extent that I feared even five drops had been too much.

The next day, we decanted the bath salts into the jars. Happily, the scent appeared to have dissipated to an acceptable level of intensity.

We really liked using the funnel.

There you go! An easy craft for toddlers, and more useful than a bunch of twisted pipecleaners bouquet of flowers or a glob of lop-sided clay trinket tray!