Today I wanted to bring you a really fun and easy parenting project that keeps kids busy for hours and can be used in a variety of ways: Rainbow Soap Foam. This project takes only 3 ingredients and you can customize to fit your particular needs. Whether you are picking rainbow colored foam or getting your holiday on with Halloween colors, this project is easy to make and easy to clean (after all- its main ingredient is soap!).
How to make rainbow soap foam bubbles
There are a lot of ways to use soap and incorporating soap and playtime together is just GOOD CLEAN FUN! (See what I did there?)
to get started on your own DIY colored soap foam fun, you will need:
- Water
- Palmolive Soap
- Food coloring
Because these ingredients are not that messy, this is a great one to have the kids participate in!
Add half a cup of cold water into your blender.
Then add 4 TBSP of Palmolive Soap (I used the Original Brand kind)
Put in some drops of food coloring.
You can choose to lower this recipe to 1/4th cp water and 2 TBSP of soap if you choose depending on your project.
Turn the blender on for approx 2 minutes.
The longer your soap mixes the more stiff the foam becomes so its easier to play with.
WOW! SOAP FOAM~! We made three colors, green, pink and orange.
Pour your colored soap into a sensory bin, paper plates, bowls or jars (as we did here).
You can even layer your foam!
Now you are asking me- what do I do with it?
PLAYTIME!
Its fun to make designs on plates and practice scooping foam into bowls and measuring cups, but my kids decided to use it to have a fun car and horse wash. We took all our foam outside with water, spoons, and rags.
Brandy says
This looks like so much fun. I never thought about using colored foam soap for so much fun with the kids. Thanks for this idea! I would much rather my youngest do this than use his sisters acrylic paint.
Emily says
Pretty sure you won the FUN mom award for this one!! Very creative!
krystalskitsch says
Whoa! That is such a fun activity! I never would have thought to use soap to create this.
fancygrlnancy (Nancy Partin) says
The colors are so vibrant. This is a great list of things that you can do with Palmolive.
Shasta Walton says
I entered! This is such a cute idea! Lexi and Anna love playing with the dish soap, and food coloring! They painted the dog yesterday.
Toni says
I love this idea. Bella would have a blast and want to play in the tub drawing and then take a bath with the colored foam LOL
Megan @ C'mon Get Crafty says
HAhaha, my son would totally do the same thing when the blender turned on! I love easy and fun projects like this, will have to try it!
Jessica (Savory Experiments) says
I’m literally laughing at loud at the photo of your kids holding their ears. I had no idea of how many things you can do with Palmolive beyond excellent dish cleaning. I need to think outside of the box.
Everyday Living with Chrys says
I had no idea about the soap foam. How fun. I could think of a few things that could be washed.
Candy O says
What a cool DIY! I bet my boys would have a blast making this soap.
Christie says
This is such a fun activity. Now to get my kids to clean the car
Tracey says
This so neat! The colours came out so vibrant!
Katrina says
This is great for my kids sensory issues! We’ll have to try making it this weekend
Melinda says
I’d send the kids out to wash the cars or patio furniture.This looks like so much fun.
Camesha says
What a neat project. I like the picture of them covering their ears! Funny!
Debra says
What a fun idea. If you add some flour to that mix you can also create dish soap paint!
Debbie Denny says
This is fantastic. Looks like so much fun.
Lindsey @ Redhead Baby Mama says
Super fun. The colors are so bright and i would have loved to give my barbies dolls a “color” bath as a kid.
Rosey says
I was thinking giant bubble makers as soon as I saw it. We’d put it in a kiddie pool and use the hula hoops to make big bubbles. 🙂
Pam says
I never knew you could make colored soap foam like this! It looks like a lot of fun for kids.
Marina says
How fun is that! I should make up a batch of this with the kids and have them “play” with all the dirty stuff in our house that needs cleaning. Win, win!
Lisa says
We made this with my toddler twins recently. They loved it and it’s not very messy!
Eliza Ferree says
OMGosh my kids would actually have fun washing things. Hmmm, wonder about the wadding pool with all the rubber toys I have inside. They can wash them instead of me. Seriously it looks like they are having fun. You are such a creative mom.
Liz Mays says
That stuff is super crazy and fun! I love the things kids come up with to use it!
Catherine S says
This is so cool, what a great summer activity with the kids. I never knew you could have so much fun with soap.
Betsy Mitchell says
I love playing with soap! This is a great project for littles ones.
Robin (Masshole Mommy) says
That is such a fun idea. My boys would LOVE that,
Candace says
I had no idea you could blend liquid soap into foam!! Can you wash cars with that?
trisha haas says
HAHAHAHHAHA> YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bet you so could. Come to think about it, isnt that what is in car washes that you go through?