One of my favorite resources for my various interests is Pinterest. The wealth of information enriches my everyday life.
Catalogue of Ideas
After signing up for this treasure trove of ideas on Pinterest, the online bulletin board presents pages of colorful pins on topics that you choose. Pin any of the topics presented by moving your computer mouse over the pin and clicking on the “pin it” icon. If you are looking for a particular subject, move your cursor to the top of the page to the space that says “Search.” Click in the search bar and type in the topic that you want to pursue.
For Christmas I did very specific searches for my grandchildren like: “most popular gifts for 11 year old girls,” “how to make lip balm,” and “Mindware catalog.” The resulting searches gave Mrs. Claus all kinds of advice and “how to” instructions for great Christmas gifts for Grandma’s pride and joys.
For my nine year-old “girly-girl” granddaughter, who loves to cook and create slime in her spare time, the ideas for lip balm seemed a sure-fire hit. The recipe had only three ingredients and was easy for a nine-year old’s skill set. She had enough to share with friends and classmates.
Lip Balm Recipe
Lip Balm Recipe:Makes enough for 10 tubes of lip balm. Just double or triple ingredients for more. Optionally, you might also add a small amount of lipstick for color to the ingredients
This homemade lip balm is SO EASY to make. It only takes 5 minutes and just three simple ingredients. It solidifies almost instantly, so you don’t even have to wait for it! It smells amazing and has a wonderful silky smooth texture to it. It’s perfect for those of us with sensitive skin!
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon White Beeswax Pellets
- 1 Tablespoon Coconut Oil
- For Peppermint Essential Oil: 3 drops
- For Lavender Essential Oil: 5 drops
- Instructions
- Place the beeswax pellets in a small glass bowl and microwave on high power for 45 seconds.
- Add the coconut oil to the bowl and return to the microwave for another 45 seconds.
- Continue to microwave in 30 second increments until everything is completely melted.
- Add the essential oils and return to the microwave for another 15 seconds.
- Fill each lip balm container as full as you can without overflowing.
- If it starts to harden before you’re finished filling the tubes, return the glass bowl to the microwave for 15 seconds to keep it melted.
- To make the personalized labels, I used ordinary Avery address labels to which I added a picture of Bethany and what flavor of lip balm was in the tube. The address labels just fit the tubes. Avery gives instructions for creating custom labels with their product. I printed off a page of my designed custom labels and included a sheet in the lip gloss kit.
The final step was to find a container to assemble the kit which included:·
- Recipe for making the lip gloss
- Bethany’s custom labels that I had printed off· Ingredients
- Lip gloss tubes
- Grandma had fun putting this together, and Bethany enjoyed giving her personalized lip gloss to all her friends.
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