Soap Clouds

Hello!!
This blog entry is different than the 

ones I usually post but, it is super fun!!

I'll start by saying, if you have kids,

you defiantly want to try this!! 

It is so fun and interesting!! 

(also entertaining)

I originally found this while browsing

through Pintrest. It lead me to this blog:

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Please read it to get the full terms and

such about this project!! There is also

a recipe on there for ways to use

the soap after your down with it!!)
 I have taken the important pieces from 

the blog and am pasting them here:

"We call these “Soap Clouds.” Grab a bar of Ivory soap-yes, only Ivory! It’s cheap, but don’t worry, you can even use it as soap when we’re done here so we’re not being wasteful. Place a piece of waxed paper, parchment, plastic wrap, or paper towel in your microwave.  Start your microwave for a couple of minutes on high power. You don’t need to let it run that whole length of time, but you can just stop it when you need to. I don’t know how it does it- but it starts growing! Sometimes the “clouds” are seriously HUGE, and other times they are sort of wimpy. I’ve noticed generally, the fresher the soap (as in the more recent I have purchased it) the bigger the result. It looks like it should be foamy and wet, but it’s not. You can actually pick up the whole big chunk.  If you smash it, it will break into pieces and you’ll end up with soap dust everywhere, so be careful with little hands who like to smash things :)  It’s the weirdest looking thing. I love how it’s different every time."

This is my response to the experiment:

Oh my word!! THIS IS AWESOME and WAY COOL!!

Vashti and I just did it and it was amazing!! 

Although a whole bar of ivory expanded to much for 

our microwave, (which is large as it's over the stove),

 so we are cutting a bar into 6ths. 

We also added drops of food coloring to it 

before microwaving it!! (while cool, it tends to burn a bit) 

Plus we discovered that after it's done expanding 

you have to let it cook for about 15-20 seconds more 

or it will fall (deflate) when you take it out!! 

When we were finished playing with the soap,

Vashti did research on it to find out how

and why this happens. She found it

very interesting, and gave her some idea's

on other experiments she wants to try.

So as you can see, this could be more than

just fun, it can be educational as well!!

Here are our pictures of the soap we did:

1/6 of a bar of IVORY soap

Too cool, huh?? 

I hope you will give it a go with your kids!!

If you do, please let us know so we can 

check out your results. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Hope you enjoyed this post!!

Until next time...................tootles!!