43
Children have squeaky clean fun making soap
Photo
Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Pictured, from left, are Tiffany and Ashlyn as they stirred in food coloring to color the soap they made during the special Mother's Day Night Owl event at the Boardman library on May 10.
Photo
Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Ava, Willow and Trey made their own soap using food coloring, a liquid mixture and molds to bring home during the Night Owl story time event at the Boardman library on May 10.
Photo
Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Adam held up the sticks he used to stir food coloring into liquid soap before pouring it into molds at the Night Owl story time event at the Boardman library on May 10.
Photo
Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Ava, Willow and Trey made their own soap using food coloring, a liquid mixture and molds to bring home during the Night Owl story time event at the Boardman library on May 10.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
The Boardman library hosted a special Mother’s Day Night Owl story time event on May 10.
Story time events at the Boardman library give children the opportunity to listen to a couple stories and make a craft to take home. This story time the children listened to books about color and made their own soap to give to their mothers for Mother’s Day.
“We’re going to melt soap and add coloring to it. They’ll add a couple drops and stir it up and an adult will pour it into the molds. The next person at the table will add another few drops so each color in the tray will get a little darker and prettier,” said Karen Saunders, a Boardman librarian.
Saunders started off the story time with a tale to teach the children about different colors and what happens when they are mixed together. This book gave the children an idea of what would happen when they mix colors together for their soap.
Several tables were set up for the children to make their soaps. Food coloring, molds, sticks and the liquid soap were placed on each of the tables for the children to share while making soap. There were enough supplies for each child to make three or four soap molds.
While the soap was setting in the molds, the children went back over to the story time area and listened to Saunders read more stories about color and Mother’s Day.
When the soap finished setting and story time was over, the children popped the soaps out of the molds and put them on a plate to take home.