Make a soap souffle in the microwave: amazing to watch and you can turn it into play snow afterwards.
Who’d have thought you could microwave a bar of soap and this would happen?
This a great science and play activity. Want to know how it works?
All you’ll need is:
Bar of Ivory soap (no other soap will work!)
Microwaveable dish
Microwave
Place the soap in a dish and cook in the microwave on high for 1 – 2 minutes.
Watch the microwave carefully and see what happens.
Once you take it out of the microwave, let it cool a little before letting the kids get their hands in. What does it look like? How does it feel? The boy and girl said it looked like a cloud and felt spongy.
Break it up into pieces, rub it into snowflakes.
Once the kids are finished playing don’t throw the snow away, it’s still good soap! Keep it in a jar in the bathroom and add a small handful to baths.
Ivory soap. This is the only soap that’ll work for this amazing experiment.
Place the soap in a microwaveable dish.
Cook on high power for 1 – 2 minutes in the microwave.
That’s not a regular bar of soap anymore!
Let the soap cool down a little before touching it. How does it feel?
Break up the soap: tear, rip, poke, squash.
Rub the soap to get fake play snow.
We played with the soap snow with the Snow Spider Monsters we made out of homemade white modelling clay. (Don’t throw the soap snow away, it can still be used as soap, keep in a jar in the bathroom)
Ivory soap. This is the only soap that’ll work for this amazing experiment.
Place the soap in a microwaveable dish.
Cook on high power for 1 – 2 minutes in the microwave.
That’s not a regular bar of soap anymore!
Let the soap cool down a little before touching it. How does it feel?
Break up the soap: tear, rip, poke, squash.
Rub the soap to get fake play snow.
We played with the soap snow with the Snow Spider Monsters we made out of homemade white modelling clay. (Don’t throw the soap snow away, it can still be used as soap, keep in a jar in the bathroom)
