Decorative Soaps
Expecting Summer Guests? Here is a fun project to welcome your guests
into your home. Place these soaps in your guest room along with extra
toothpaste, nail file, shampoo, and other items they may have forgotten. Personalize the soaps for your guests by
adding buttons, miniature gardening tools, metal letters, and other
embellishments that match their personality. Purchase small bars of
soap or use the bars that you have collected from previous hotel stays.
Materials
Small
soap bars
Decorative
Papers of your choice
Ribbons
that coordinate with the papers
Embellishments
such as buttons, metal letters,
shells, and miniature gardening tools
Glue
dots
Double
sided tape
Decorative
edged scissors
Hot
glue gun
Paper
trimmer
Instructions
1. Cut paper strips about 2" wide
and long enough to wrap around your bar of soap. Cut a second paper
strip of a different color about 1 3/4" wide. Trim
the long edges of the smaller paper strip with decorative scissors.
2. Wrap the paper strips around the
soap bar and secure the ends with double stick tape.
3. Tie a piece of ribbon around the
soap and centered on the smallest paper strip. Tie
the ribbon into a bow at the top of the soap bar.
4. Hot glue buttons or other embellishments
to the bow.
5. Create a message such as WELCOME
on your computer and print it out. Trim the paper and attach the message
to the soap.
For additional projects...Wrap the same
papers around small bottles of shampoo, a small hair brush, or a loufa sponge.
Copyright © 2004 Deborah Spofford Designs
