10 Baby Wet Wipes You Can Make At Home

Baby wet wipes are becoming scarce and lots of people are looking for affordable alternatives to them. Making your own is not a new thing. Minimalists and frugal-ists have been doing it for years.

We rounded up a few variations of the DIY recipes or tutorials so that you can find a baby wet wipe tutorial that suits your needs and what you have on hand.

This tutorial is from our sister site Craftbits.com For this recipe you will need

Paper towel
1 tbs Baby Lotion
1 tbs Baby soap
1 tbs Baby Oil
1 cup Boiling Water

You can see the full tutorial here.

With all of these wet wipe recipes you are making a liquid base and pouring it over disposable paper towel, chux cloths or linen reusable cotton sheets. If you want to make these wipes using the items you have in home consider ripping up an old cotton bed sheet into squares (make sure they are big enough for your hand to wipe with). You could use them as rags and throw them away, especially if you are only using homemade wipes temporarily (till you get out of isolation or get to the shops).

Instead of paper towels, I have actually become a big fan of bamboo cloths. They still come on a roll but you can rinse and re-use them. They are cheap enough so if you are cleaning up something gross you can throw those ones out.

If you do not have a baby shampoo, look in your cupboard for basic soap flakes, or a gentle shampoo to use diluted in the water. In my experience when making makeup removal wipes, I didn’t need a soap, only the coconut oil so considering omitting it totally. Try it and see what works for your babies butt.

This recipe by Vitacost for wet wipes uses coconut oil. Coconut oil is gentle on the skin and the perfect cleanser. Here is another coconut oil version too.

The Very Well Family shows you how to make throwaway wet wipes and re-usable ones too. For re-usable wipes I suggest buying cotton cloths in bulk. You can also buy cotton eco packs on Etsy.

Natures Nurture has a tutorial for wet wipes using natural ingredients and paper towel.

Another simple homemade wet wipes recipe is this one by Favfamilyrecipes.

Wellness Mama also has a suitable and easy to follow instructions for making your own wet wipes.

Diynatural.com has a tutorial here

This is one of my favorites and it is a zero waste wet wipes tutorial that you can make at home and save the environment at the same time.

Still looking? Check out this video showing you how to make these:

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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