Happy Holidays Foot Soak
A lovely DIY gift children can easily assemble to treat loved ones
Holiday season is here and it’s time to put our feet up and relax. Our ‘Happy Holidays’ Foot Soak’ is simply perfect to help mums, dads and loved ones to unwind after a busy year (or any other time, really!).
This adorable gift is also very easy and quick to make, only taking 3 ingredients - Epsom salts, baking soda and dried flowers - which we collected from our CP garden and dried ourselves (check our Drying Herbs is Fun! and Using Edible Flowers blogs to learn more about it).
For this blog we’ve chosen to use chamomile and lavender, as both have relaxing and calming properties and we had a large quantity available, but you could create your own mix of dried flowers, herbs, fruits or spices - such as rose petals and dried citrus peel, or rosemary and mint, for example.
The foot print adds a cute and personal touch to the packaging
The quantities in the recipe below are enough for 2 x feet-only bucket soaks, but can easily be multiplied, if you decide to set this as a group activity and make a large batch to be divided among several bags or jars instead. On the other hand, it can also be split to make enough for just 1 x feet-only bucket soak for each child.
Our choice of packaging this time was plain paper bags and a selection of recycled ribbons we had lying around. We’ve also added individual foot prints from each child, which added a personal touch, and instructions labels, which were handwritten but could have easily been designed on Word or similar and printed. Both of these were made in advance.
Happy Holidays Foot Soak
Dried Lavender & Chamomile Flowers
Ingredients:
8 Tbsp Epsom salts (1/2 cup)
3 Tbsp baking soda
2 Tbsp dried lavender flowers
2 Tbsp chamomile flowers
Equipment needed:
bowls for ingredients and for mixing
tablespoon measuring
Packaging:
Brown paper bags
recycled ribbons/ string
child’s footprint (optional)
permanent marker and paper for labels
glue
scissors
hole puncher
Method:
Making the Foot Soak -
Place all ingredients in separate bowls or containers and have your tablespoon measuring ready.
2. Have each child measure the correct amount for each ingredient - Epsom salts, baking soda and dried flowers - and place in an empty mixing bowl.
3. Mix well.
Packing the Foot Soak -
1. Gather all the equipment needed for packing the foot soak, including foot prints and instruction labels.
2. Glue instruction labels to paper bags.
3. Pour Foot Soak mix into bags.
4. Fold the top of the paper bag to close and punch 2 holes for the string/ ribbon.Also, punch a hole at the heel end of the foot print.
5. Thread the ribbon through the paper bag holes and add the foot print before tying the ribbon.
