Making Perfume

Tobias is in Group 3 now and once a week they watch a TV show made for school. We even call it SchoolTV here… The show is called “Huisje, Boompje, Beestje” (House, Tree, Animal) and addresses various topics that kids his age might be dealing with. One recent one has been allowance, but another one was flowers. In the flower one they talked about how flowers grow, why they have colors, why they smell etc. During that episode they made perfume from flower petals and Tobias was fascinated by that! So, he wanted to try that for himself. He had been talking about it for like two weeks now and today we finally did it.

After school we went into to town and got the necessities: Coffee filters and flowers (roses, as you can see). Tobias also brought a friend (Dico) home with him, but that did not deviate him from his plan… Dico was allowed to join the fun . So, here they are cutting rose petals into small pieces to put in the  coffee filters… Then you trickle warm (not hot) water over it and squeeze the filter. What comes out is the perfume. We put it in a bottle and saved it as a surprise for when Lisa came home . It was quite cute, actually…