We are finally getting around to cleaning the garage, and while doing so I stumbled upon half a dozen bars of goat’s milk soap. My girls knew what that would mean right away – felted soap! :)



I love this project, particularly with my little ones. I have blogged about it before. It takes minimal time & set up (this was a wonderful mid-morning project for us today). Bonus the kids can make a soapy mess – where they are cleaner than they were when they started. :)

Materials are simple: wool roving in various colors, bars of soap, some bubble wrap, and some hot water (as hot as you can stand to touch). There are two ways to approach it. My 3.5 year old likes to soak the wool in the hot water and drape it over the soap. I find wetting the soap and getting the bubble wrap soapy wet works best. Then I drape the dry wool around the soap, and rub the bar all over with the soapy bubble wrap.

My 2 year old is happy to simply dip small pieces of roving in her own bowl of warm water. I am always amazed how she can be entertained for the morning just by doing this. I put a towel on the table and her lap to catch wet drips. Forming the wool into long “snakes” and “worms” as she calls it – or balling it up to make small balls or even her own rendition of food items…it truly is a wonderful display of imaginative play – and what toddler doesn’t like to play in water?? :)

My 3 year old chooses the colors and dips and drapes, while I then take over with forming the felt by agitating the wool all over the soap with the bubble wrap. She is much more into it now than she was when I first tried this technique earlier this year. Once we are done we put them out in the sun to dry.



They don’t have to look perfect, in fact they will keep felting every time you wash your hands! Just have fun with your pre-schooler, and let their imagination take over.

I normally make my own liquid hand soap using sls-free organic soap base, but I find my little ones can be wasteful pumping out too much. The felted bars have been a wonderful alternative. They still get to make something handmade for the home, and I find felted soap doesn’t get used up as quickly as a plain bar of soap that constantly gets pummeled with water. :)