Science Experiment with Soap!

I found this fun experiement on Pinterest a couple of weeks ago, so thought I would try it with the kids on our day off on Monday!

You take a bar of Ivory Soap - it MUST be Ivory Soap

Cut it in quarters.

Here's Colin showing you his quarter.

Caden getting in on the soap action (Colin wouldn't hold it, hense the need for the plate above)

Put it in the mircrowave.

Set it for 3 mintues and WATCH it!!

{As in, do NOT walk away}

The light in our microwave is broken, so we couldn't see much, it's much much more fun to watch the process, but we had to guess.

Because we had to guess {and I was nervous} I stopped it just after about 1.15 mintues. We also have a high powered microwave. So a lower power, you may want to use the full time, or close to it.

Look at our end product! becuase of the air bubbles in Ivory Soap, the heat makes it expand, and once it cools down, it stays like this!

So much fun! It's still usable as well, just break off the chunks as you need them! We actually put the whole plate in the shower with Caden, so he could use it as he wanted or needed, then when he was done, took it out to let it dry out again, and it holds it's shape!

On a side note, Look at Col's eyelashes in that last picture, God I LOVE them!