Do You Know How to Bobble

Bubble Science

Bubbles are fun to accident and chase and play with. But bubbles can be educational, also. Kids acquire nigh air, surface tension, reflection and refraction, geometry, and much more than.

Beneath you volition find simple bubble experiments for the little ones and some more challenging bubble projects for older scientists besides.

Discover how to make glow in the dark bubbling, how to freeze bubbles, how to create square bubbles, how to light bubbles on burn down, and even how to agree bubbles in your easily.

Not only will kids learn with these bubble projects, they will be busy having a swell time in the process. This is the identify where bubble science meets bubble entertainment.

Bubble Ingredients

These ingredients are probably in your kitchen right now.

Homemade Bubbles Recipes

Making bubble solution tin can be a science projection in itself. Mixing dish liquid and h2o is bully for blowing normal bubbles, merely performing some of these bubble experiments require bubbling that concluding a bit longer. Hither are several recipes for more durable bubbles.

Letting the solution sit for a mean solar day or so makes for ameliorate bubbling.

Recipe #1 - Corn Syrup

• i Cup of warm water (purified h2o works best)
• 2 Tablespoons of dish liquid
• 1-ii Tablespoons of light corn syrup

Add the ingredients in a container and mix.

Recipe #2 - Glycerin

• 1 Loving cup of warm h2o (purified)
• 2 Tablespoons of dish liquid
• i Tablespoon of glycerin

Glycerin can typically be constitute in either the pharmacy section or the crafting section of nearly stores. It is used in making soaps.

Mix all of the ingredients together in a container.

Recipe #3 - Sugar

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• 1 Cup of warm h2o
• 2 Tablespoons of dish liquid
• ii Tablespoons of saccharide

Mix the sugar into the warm water until information technology is dissolved. And so add the dish liquid.

Experiment with several bubble recipes. Which recipes piece of work the best? What other types of soap brand bubbles? What other ingredients can add stickiness and durability to bubble solutions?

Colored Bubbles

• How to Make Colored Soap Bubbling
  Make brightly colored pink and blueish soap bubbling that won't stain clothing or surfaces.

Hold a Bubble in Your Mitt

Bouncing Bubbles in Activeness

Touchable Bubbling

Materials:

Glycerin or corn syrup bubble solution

A pair of clean gloves or socks

Bubble wand

What normally happens when you endeavor to impact a bubble? With this experiment, you can hold a bubble in your hand and fifty-fifty bounce it around.

To begin, you lot will need to mix upward some chimera solution using either the recipe with corn syrup or the recipe with glycerin from higher up. For the best results, let the bubble solution sit for about a day. This gives the mixture time to settle for the optimal bounciness.

When the solution is skillful and settled, put on gloves or put a pair of clean socks on your hands. Accident the bubbles or accept a friend blow them. Try to catch the bubbles with your hands. Can you go the bubbles to bounciness around now?

The gloves are the primal to touchable bubbles. Our hands have dirt and oil on them, which causes bubbling to pop. So with the gloves on, the bubbles have a surface that they can country on and even bounce off. Try using other fabrics and surfaces to come across which works best.

Amazing Glowing Bubbles

How to Make Glow in the Dark Bubbling

Glow in the Dark Bubbles

Materials:

Highlighter marker or glow stick

Dish liquid

Tonic water (optional)

Blackness light

Blowing bubbles is usually something to practise during the solar day. But bubbles that glow in the dark make bubble bravado a fun nighttime activity. There is something eerie about glowing bubbles that gives them a mysterious appeal.

The best manner to make glow in the dark bubbling is with a highlighter marker or with a glow stick. (You can utilise glow powders or paints, simply about don't mix too with the bubble solution). You will have to cut open the marker or glow stick and pour the liquid into a bowl. Y'all may demand to soak the felt from the highlighter in a bit of water to get the liquid out. Yellow, dark-green, or orangish highlighters glow the best.

Mix the glowing liquid along with water and dish liquid. Turn off the lights, get a bubble wand, and start blowing glowing bubbles.

I like to utilise tonic water to mix in with the soap instead of regular water. Then I turn on the blacklights for an even improve glow (tonic water is blacklight sensitive). If yous are using a highlighter, you volition need the blacklight to make the mixture fluoresce. Glow sticks, paints, and powders should glow without a blacklight. You lot may take to expose them to light commencement.

The bubbling should wipe away easily when you are finished. You may desire to avoid fabric surfaces just in case. If y'all are unsure about stains, blow the bubbles exterior. If yous are using the bubbles with little kids, bank check the glow materials to be certain they are non-toxic.

More Glow in the Dark Fun

• Glow in the Dark Experiments and Activities
  Light upwards the night with these crawly glow in the nighttime activities and experiments. Brand glowing drinks and a glowing geyser. You can fifty-fifty make glow in the night writing that is invisible in the solar day.

Bubbles Aren't Always Round

Square Bubbling

Materials:

Chimera solution

Large container (instance - bucket)

Straws

Tape

(Tinkertoys or other building toys can be used instead)

What shapes do bubbles come in? Bubbling are merely round, right? Did you know that you can really make foursquare bubbling?

Yous will need to brand a cube to create square bubbles. I used straws taped together. If you lot accept Tinkertoys or other construction toys, you tin utilize those to put together a cube shape. Pipe cleaners will piece of work equally well, just they are a bit flimsy.

You will submerge the cube, so attempt to make information technology small enough to fit into the container you lot are using. A 5-6 inch cube would be ideal.

Get the bubble solution set up (the blazon of bubbles don't matter for this experiment). Dip the cube into the bubbles. Advisedly pull out the cube. Depending on how the bubbling form, you can have a foursquare in the middle or all sorts of other shapes.

You tin can dip a wand into the bubbles and then accident information technology into the cube to change the shape of the bubbling already formed.

Experiment with more shapes by making a pyramid to dip into the bubbles. See if y'all tin can class triangle-shaped bubbles.

Making Foursquare Bubbling

Frozen Bubbles

Frozen Bubbles

Materials:

Bubble solution

Chimera wand

Plate

Bubbles are made of water, so they can exist frozen, as well. Frozen bubbles are beautiful to await at and fun to make. But like regular bubbles, they don't concluding long. Frozen bubbling are tricky to brand, but it can exist done, even in the summer.

The best time to freeze bubbling is outside on a day that is below 32^oF. Go outside with some bubble solution and a wand. Blow bubbling onto diverse surfaces and scout as the bubbles begin to freeze. They won't last long, so don't blink.

You tin too create frozen bubbles in the freezer if you don't want to wait for a beneath-freezing day. To begin, articulate out some space in the freezer most the dorsum. Put a plate in the freezer for virtually an hour so that it is cold.

Mix up some chimera solution. The best kind for this experiment is either the glycerin bubbling or the corn syrup bubbling because the bubbling tend to last longer.

Take out the plate and dampen it with water. Then accident bubbles onto the plate. When you have a few bubbles solidly on the plate, very advisedly put the plate into the spot you cleared in the freezer. Information technology works best if you practise information technology at a fourth dimension when the fan in the freezer isn't running. Shut the freezer door very slowly.

Look well-nigh 10 minutes. If yous are going to take pictures, have the camera fix to snap a moving-picture show before you open up the freezer door. Slowly open the freezer door.

The draft will likely pop the bubbles and they will begin to debunk. But you will get a few seconds to wait at your frozen bubbles. Yous volition meet frozen rings on the plate where the bubbling were.

Called-for Bubbles

Fiery Bubbles

**Alert** - Adult Supervision Required - This experiment tin can be dangerous.

Materials:

Dish liquid

Water

Bowl

Droplets can with flammable propellant

Lighter with long stalk

*Habiliment condom goggles during this experiment

You lot tin set bubbles on burn down if they are made of a flammable material. To create peppery bubbles, go someplace away from anything that could potentially catch on fire such every bit curtains, carpet, etc. Outside on sidewalk or pavement is best. Grass tin catch on fire as well, and then do the experiment away from grass. If y'all have long pilus, you may want to pull it away from your confront to reduce the hazard of it catching on burn.

Mix dish liquid and water together in a bowl to make a bubble solution. Make sure to add enough of dish liquid (at least a couple of tablespoons total).

Find an aerosol spray can that has flammable contents. There will be a warning label on the can somewhere. Cleaning products or hairspray is probably the easiest to use for this experiment.

Take the spray can and dip it into the chimera mix. Spray the can generously into the mix to create bubbles full of the flammable gas.

Move the tin can abroad from the mix. Accept the lighter and ignite the bubbles. Take a pace back and sentry equally the bubbling flame. The called-for should terminal for a few seconds until annihilation combustible burns up.

If y'all echo the experiment, you lot may have to pour out the mix and freshen it to get the right outcome.

Cautions: Check the wind direction before y'all calorie-free the fire. Stand upwind of the experiment that way the wind won't blow the fire and smoke onto you.

Burning Bubbles Experiment

Chimera Poll

Continue the Fun Bubbling: More Bubble Science Ideas

• Make giant bubbles past filling a wading pool with chimera solution. Use a hula hoop instead of a chimera wand.
• You can add together nutrient coloring to make the bubble solution pretty colors. Some food coloring will stain, so practice a exam earlier blowing the bubbles. This works all-time outdoors.
• Utilise pipe cleaners to make bubble wands. Shape the pipage cleaners into squares, triangles, hearts, and more. When you blow the chimera, what shape comes out?
• Exercise experiments to see what kind of weather is best for chimera blowing. Bubbles pop when they come in contact with dirt, oil, or anything that is dry. For instance, which would be better, a windy 24-hour interval or a calm day? Or a humid solar day or a dry twenty-four hours?
• Build a bubble blowing machine. Check out Zoom and FamilyFun to get started.
• Create scented bubbles by calculation essential oils into the bubble solution. Y'all will need to employ unscented dish liquid and so that its smell won't overpower the oils.

Create More Bubbles!

• Fizzles, Explosions, and Eruptions: Unproblematic Scientific discipline Experiments Gone Mad
  Brand soda bottles bubble over and erupt. Create bubbling and fizzing science projects all with stuff that is probably in your kitchen correct at present.

Dry Ice Bubbling

• Dry Ice Experiments: Cool Science Projects with Dry Water ice
  Dry out ice tin be a fun substance to use in experiments. Information technology has cool properties that cause it to fog and make bubbles when placed in h2o and other liquids. Make foggy bubbles you lot can touch and much more with these dry ice activities.

Let Your Thoughts Chimera Over

Tejashwini on October 22, 2013:

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SpongeBob on September 27, 2013:

=)))

Candace Bacon (author) from Far, far away on July 23, 2013:

Thank you lot everyone!

LensMan999 from Trans-Neptunian region on June 23, 2013:

The square bubbling are very attractive. These experiments are too so wonderful that I will give a wonderful fourth dimension for my kids. Thanks for sharing this simple and cute hub.

Grace-Wolf-30 from England on June xix, 2013:

Bright! My kids love bubbles, volition definitely exist trying out these experiments in the holidays. Thank you!

PennyCarey from Felton on June eighteen, 2013:

This is crawly, I love bubbles!

James Archibald on June 12, 2013:

I similar the square chimera making but I have a science projection coming up and I want something really proficient!

nikkkki on November 17, 2012:

o wow

God is dead on June 15, 2012:

Very Interesting article, Will definitely share this. Keep up the good piece of work, Thumbs upwards (:

Candace Salary (author) from Far, far away on June 08, 2012:

sadie423 - Hope your boys savor! Thanks!

KevinMillican - Thanks!

KevinMillican from Fort Smith, AR on May 24, 2012:

Very cool, thanks!!!

sadie423 from North Carolina on May 24, 2012:

Very cool! Dearest the glow in the dark bubbling, I know my boys would as well.

Candace Bacon (author) from Far, far away on May 16, 2012:

PatienceAllana - Thank you! Hope your kids have a boom.

PatienceAllana on May xv, 2012:

Swell hub, looking forward to trying some of the recipes with my kids.

Candace Bacon (author) from Far, far away on May 01, 2012:

Movie Primary - Cheers! I love the glowing bubbles, as well.

ComfortB - Thanks! Bubbles are made of water, and then they tin freeze. Only most people just think of them during warm conditions.

HawaiiHeart - Promise your kids beloved them. Thanks!

theclevercat - Thanks for sharing! Glad to encounter a fellow pinner. :)

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RTalloni - Prime number bubble season is almost here! Thanks so much!

jpcmc - Thank you for the compliment. I made some of the videos myself, and so getting feedback is really appreciated.

Natashalh - I haven't done a examination for the best bubble lather yet, but I'll bet Joy is yet 1 of the top picks. I bet yous had lots of fun memories of the behemothic bubbles. Thank you!

DeviousOne - Give thanks you very much!

wayseeker - Wow! Thanks for the praise. I spent a lot of time on information technology. Glad to know it paid off. Thanks again.

Mmargie1966 - Thanks!

Heather Says - They are some of the most unusual ones. Cheers!

haley - Simply cool!

haley on Apr 29, 2012:

weird

Heather from Arizona on Apr xix, 2012:

The frozen and glowing bubbles are my favorites! great hub!

Mmargie1966 from Gainesville, GA on April 18, 2012:

Dandy hub! Congrats on the hub of the day!

wayseeker from Colorado on Apr eighteen, 2012:

Holy cow this looks like fun! Voted up, useful, and awesome! I volition definitely be returning here this summertime for some experiment fourth dimension with my kids.

This is great data, well presented, with lots of interactive videos--what a cracking package you lot take put together hither.

This is definitely a worthy hub-of-the-day winner! Congratulations. Fine work.

wayseeker

DeviousOne from Sydney, Australia on April 18, 2012:

Pretty awesome hub. Glow in the dark bubbles..now that'south clever

Natasha from Hawaii on April 18, 2012:

Glow in the dark bubbling? That is crawly! I used to make giant bubbling with my grandmother using one of those special wands. We always establish Joy soap worked all-time. This was 20 years ago, so I don't know if it is all the same truthful today.

Voted up, useful and crawly.

JP Carlos from Quezon CIty, Phlippines on Apr 18, 2012:

Such wonderful ideas. They're explained clearly and the videos are great. Congratulations on the hub of the day.

RTalloni on Apr 18, 2012:

What fun this volition be to come back to once more and again--thank you!

Congrats on a bang-up summer Hub of the Day laurels!

kelleyward on April xviii, 2012:

Deceit look to try this with my kiddos before long! I merely published a hub on gratis things to do with kids I'll add your link to it at present! Congrats on HOTD!

Rachel Vega from Massachusetts on Apr eighteen, 2012:

This is great! I'm voting up, forwarding to my niece and nephew, and pinning. Cheers for another great Hub!

HawaiiHeart from Hawaii on April 18, 2012:

Super cool! I'll have to try these expirements with my kids.

Comfort Babatola from Bonaire, GA, USA on April 18, 2012:

Really interesting. Never occurred to me that one tin freeze bubble. daaa!

Anyway, thanks for sharing, and congrats on the HOTD laurels.

Motion picture Main from United Kingdom on April 18, 2012:

What a fabulous hub, congratulations on hub of the day!

Great, exciting experiments, peculiarly the glow in the dark bubbles!

Candace Bacon (author) from Far, far away on April 18, 2012:

ekstrom002 - Thanks! Learning can be disguised every bit fun.

nishlaverz - The corn syrup really helps make long-lasting bubbles. Thank you!

Archana 1000 Saha - Cheers!

mary615 - A canis familiaris who loves bubbles. That is cute. I'll have to blow some bubbles for my dog. Hope anybody enjoys. Thank you!

markbennis - Thanks so much! Glowing bubbles are my favorite, too.

vespawoolf - Thanks! Hope your nieces and nephews (and you) accept fun.

Ardie - Hope your bubble party is fun. You can still be in the mad scientist club even though you didn't get to vote for it. Thanks so much!

leahlefler - Bubbles tin definitely make a fun playdate. Most kids tin blow bubbles for hours, especially if they are glowing. Thanks for sharing!

DoctorDarts - Cheers very much!

TnTgoodrich - The burning bubbles is a absurd fob, simply the glowing bubbles are more fun to play with. Hope your kids are impressed. Thanks!

POWERS1205 - This is a corking alternative to boob tube. Information technology can go along them entertained for a long time and information technology is something that tin play with by themselves one time y'all get them started (except for the burn bubbles). Thanks!

POWERS1205 on April 18, 2012:

That is really cool! Thank yous so much. We have 5 children at domicile and sometimes we run out of ideas on things to practise around the house. We don't like plugging them into the tv set, so projects similar this give us some good alternatives.

TnTgoodrich on April xviii, 2012:

Cool Hub ~ I homeschool my children and so I will be using these experiments soon cheers i similar the glow in the nighttime but certain the kids will dearest called-for bubbles :)

DoctorDarts on April 18, 2012:

Absolutely fantastic!! Definitely going to try the strong bubbles!

Leah Lefler from Western New York on April 18, 2012:

My boys would Dearest these experiments - particularly the glow-in-the-dark bubbles! I'm sharing this with some of my mom friends, because I foresee a fun summer playdate party with bubble activities!

Sondra from Neverland on April 18, 2012:

Doh! I voted for glowing bubbling before I read all the options...now I want to revote for being a mad scientist and doing ALL the experiments. Heck, Im not even going to wait for the kids to get habitation from school. Im gonna accept a chimera political party for one today :)

Vespa Woolf from Peru, South America on April 18, 2012:

This is a cool hub...I had no thought and so much could exist done with bubbles! I've marked this and so I can try an experiment or ii with my nephews and nieces adjacent time we're together. Thank yous and congratulations on a well-deserved Hub of the Day!

markbennis on April 18, 2012:

Great ideas for bubbles especially like the glow in the dark bubbling, great tips and voted up!

Mary Hyatt from Florida on April 18, 2012:

Wow! What a wonderful Hub! I can see why it got HOTD. Congrats! So many great ideas for me to practice with my Grands and my dog. Yes, my dog, Baby, loves to chase bubbling the kids blow. I only don't know which of your methods we'll endeavor first. Delightful Hub. I voted it UP, etc.etc.

Archana G Saha from Bangalore on April 18, 2012:

awesome hub voted up

nishlaverz from North.E England on Apr 18, 2012:

Thanks for these great ideas. My daughter loves bubbles but I can never seem to go the mix right when I do it myself. Volition endeavor out your recipes.

ekstrom002 on Apr xviii, 2012:

This was interesting and informative. Learned some new things near bubbles I probably wouldn't accept otherwise thought to ever look into. Nice work!

Candace Salary (writer) from Far, far away on April 12, 2012:

Simone - Researching was the perfect excuse to try all of these myself and it was AWESOME! Cheers!

Robin - I hope the frozen bubbles work for you lot. They are definitely absurd! Have fun in the snow!

Robin Edmondson from San Francisco on Apr 11, 2012:

Who doesn't love bubbles?? I am going to bring bubbles when we caput up to the snow to run across if we can create frozen bubbling. What a great idea. We volition definitely be making our own bubbles soon.

Simone Haruko Smith from San Francisco on April 09, 2012:

BURNING BUBBLES? Glow in the DARK bubbling??? OMG THIS IS ALL And so Cool!! I absolutely love this Hub. And demand to find an alibi to do one of these experiments stat!

Candace Bacon (author) from Far, far away on Apr 09, 2012:

Marcy Goodfleisch - Thank you so much! Learning should e'er be fun. There are tons of smashing tips and ideas for kids present. I wish I had (or my mom had) known some of this stuff when I was younger.

kayyluh - Experiments in high school tin be really fun. Thank you!

randomcreative - Give thanks yous!

BeccaLynnee - Thanks!

BeccaLynnee from USA on April 08, 2012:

That's fantastic!

Rose Clearfield from Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 07, 2012:

This is a smashing resource for parents and teachers! Thank you!

kayyluh on April 07, 2012:

Awesome hub coco! I always liked doing these expeiments in high school. I'm glad I can practise them over again with the thanks to your hub. :)

Marcy Goodfleisch from Planet Earth on Apr 07, 2012:

This is an amazing hub! Wish I'd had access to this when my kids were fiddling (except peradventure for the flammable versions). Kids will not only larn, just have fun with this. I will share this with some friends who piece of work with diverse age groups.

ScienceFairLady on April 07, 2012:

Dandy hub for kids. They just love bubbles!

Horatio Plot from Bedfordshire, England. on April 07, 2012:

How much fun did you lot have!

Fantastically interesting and entertaining hub. Beloved the pictures. I chuckled all the fashion through.

At present, where's that corn syrup...

Healing Herbalist from The Village of Effingham on April 07, 2012:

Smashing hub. I even so honey bubbles, and beloved the glow in the night one. I shall accept to do this with my granddaughter. She loves bubbles too. Must exist genetic...lol

BRIAN SLATER on April 07, 2012:

This hub simply reinforces that you don't need to spend a lot of money to keep your kids entertained, great topic, voted upwardly :)

WD Curry 111 from Space Declension on April 06, 2012:

I have teenage boys. It looks like a good project. Perchance it will distract them from the refrigerator.

Kim Lam from California on Apr 06, 2012:

This is a great idea! Kids would honey these bubbles experiments! Great chore!

poowool5 from here in my house on Apr 06, 2012:

ANd I idea a bubble was just a bubble! You must have had a boom researching this hub!

Groovy hub, you have thoroughly explored the many varied aspects of the humble bubble and information technology actually inspires the reader to try some new things. I will coil up my sleeves and have a go over school intermission with the kids. Cheers for the super ideas!

Voted up and interesting.

veggie-mom on April 06, 2012:

This looks like great fun for a homeschool science experiment, thank you for sharing! Voted up & useful.

Dan Reed on Apr 06, 2012:

I have iii boys and I'm non sure whose going to have more fun with these experiments...them or me? This is honestly one of the funnest, most interesting, well written hubs I've read since being hither. Voted way up and other skillful things!

viquar from Hyderabad, India on April 06, 2012:

Simply Amazing. Thanks for sharing

Lindsay Steele on April 06, 2012:

This was awesome! I am a teacher and I am definitely going to demand to find a way to incorporate this lesson into my weekly plans. Thanks!

Candace Salary (author) from Far, far away on Apr 06, 2012:

prekcarolyn - The square bubbling are very fun to play with (fifty-fifty for adults, ha ha). Kids will beloved them. Thanks!

alliemacb - Bubbling seem uncomplicated, only they tin teach us a lot. Thank you and so much!

WD Back-scratch 111 - Possibly we tin build a time machine and so you can do lessons with bubbles. Or y'all could merely play with bubbling past yourself now.

WD Curry 111 from Space Declension on April 06, 2012:

Where were you when I was a substitute teacher?

alliemacb from Scotland on April 06, 2012:

This is a really interesting hub. Who knew there was and so much to bubbles? Voted up and crawly!

prekcarolyn from Georgia on April 06, 2012:

Very cool! Thank you for sharing. I particularly loved the terminal video of the square bubbling! I'm going to have to do that in my classroom!

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