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We took dry ice and made bubbles. It was super easy all you need is Dry Ice, an empty container with a tight fitting lid, a tube, a funnel, duct tape, bubble solution and a container to put it in.
And you can make these amazing bubbles
You just put the funnel in the bubble solution and all the gas from the dry ice creates smoke filled bubbles
When you pop them the smoke lingers it is pretty awesome
Catching a Bubble
popping the Bubble isn’t that awesome.
The funnel made huge bubbles
Pop!
Smaller bubbles
The contraption
Add hot water fast and close quickly
This was one of my favorite projects ever. We will definitely be doing it again!
Bubble Solution 1
2 Cups Dawn Dish Detergent
6 cups water
4 tablespoons of glycerin
Stir slowly if you make to many bubbles while stirring its harder to get the bubble blowers to work well. Enjoy!
or
Bubble Solution 2
6 cups water
2 cups Dawn dishwashing liquid
3/4 cup light corn syrup
Mix all ingredients together in a LARGE container. Shake everything up and let sit for a FEW hours. Pour into empty bubbles containers or sensory table and enjoy!
Bubble Solution 3
12 cups of water
1 cup of dishwasher soap Dawn or Joy
1 cup of cornstarch or (corn flour in the UK)
2 tablespoons of baking powder
Mix all ingredients together in a LARGE container. Shake everything up and let sit for a FEW hours. Pour into empty bubbles containers or sensory table and enjoy!
Bubble Solution 4 (Bouncy Bubbles)
To make Bouncy Bubble Solution
1 package Gelatin (knox unflavored)
4 tablespoons Glycerin
1 cup Dawn Dish Detergent
1. Dissolve one package unflavored gelatin into one cup of hot water (just boiled).
2. Then add 4 tablespoons glycerin and 1 cup Dawn Dish Detergent. Stir gently.
The solution will gel as it cools. Reheat it carefully in the microwave (about two minutes).
Bubbles made with this solution will bounce off your clothes!
The BEST Bubbles EVER
2 cups Dawn dishwashing liquid
4 Cups Glycerine
1 cup light corn syrup
12 Cups distilled water (tap will work if you have good water quality)
Mix all ingredients together in a LARGE container. Shake everything up and let sit for a FEW hours. Pour into sensory table and enjoy! This Bubble solution is super thick and makes bubbles that bounce. You can use more distilled water to dilute if you want to thin it out a bit.
For blowing bubbles one of our favorite tools are strawberry baskets the little green ones you get strawberries in and fly swatters. But there are so many things you can use to blow bubbles like our alien bubble machine!
Note: All these bubble recipes get better with time so make them a day or two ahead of time
I found this post over at KBN, and I’m SO HAPPY to have found it! We’re planning a bubbles birthday party for my girls this summer, and you’ve shared some great ideas! Thanks!
Awesome!!!! Thank you!
This is incredible! My girls would love this. Now I just have to try and figure out where in the world I can get dry ice around here!
Thanks for sharing this at the outdoor play party.
They sell it at Grocery Stores around us you just have to ask
Did you just put the hose in a hole in the side of the container with dry ice? I can’t wait to try this.
Yes, I made a hole up at the top of the container and attached the hose there with duct tape (you want it to be as air tight as possible).
wow thats such a brilliant idea, i love it. Where do you buy dry ice?
We made these in my preschool today. SO cool. Thanks for sharing the instructions. I wrote about it on my blog.
Lyn
http://mrsgoffskinders.blogspot.com/2012/06/magic-bubbles.html
We made these in my preschool today. SO cool. Thanks for sharing the instructions. I wrote about it on my blog.
Lyn
How fantastic. I am loving all these posts!
Waouh that’s really cool! I’ll have to try this!
Isn’t dry ice a little on the dangerous side to have around kids so young?
this activity is one that needs to be heavily supervised. The children are not allowed to touch the dry ice. It is put in the “contraption” by an adult. That being said you should not do any activity with kids that you are not comfortable with. My kids and I love this activity. So do the children in their class.