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Monday, April 29th, 2013

I went to a craft store by my house and saw they were selling scented bubbles. I immediately put it on my list of things to make and then sadly forgot about it…until now. The kids have had the tummy flu and are still battling it which means we have been home and looking for things to do. I knew I wanted to do something easy that would keep them busy and enjoying some time outside. Cue the amazing and oh so pretty scented bubbles.

First check out my post on Bubble Recipes I have five fantastic recipes there. All of them can be adapted to add scent. Making your own bubble wands out of pipe cleaners is just extra credit.

So here it is super simple. I added a few drops between 5-10 of essential oil or extract add more or less depending on the strength of the scent you want. That’s it. I added food coloring to just to make them look a little different liquid watercolors would have worked as well.

Looking to make it even more simple. Buy your bubbles and just add some essential oil or extract to your store bought bubbles.

Another easy way to add scent if you don’t want to go the essential oil/ extract route is to buy scented dish soap when making your bubbles.

I am going to try making bubbles with kool-aid as well to see how that goes. I figure making a simple syrup with the kool-aid will keep it from separating. I will see and update this post later.

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Sunday, August 26th, 2012

Check out all my AMAZING Bubble Recipes here

To make the Large bubble Blower- Just wrap fabric or rope (that’s what I used) around a cheap hula hoop. Thats it! It was super simple!

I had a ton of other bubble blowing activities actually we made all the recipes from my Bubble;e Recipe page but the Giant Bubbles became the main and only attraction!

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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Note: All these bubble recipes get better with time so make them a day or two ahead of time

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!
Blowing Bubbles on paper. You just add some liquid water color or food coloring to the bubble solution put a straw in and blow. Like blowing bubbles in your milk or apple juice kids love this and it makes awesome prints when you put a paper underneath.

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!

You can provide pipe cleaners so the kids can make their own bubble wands in whatever shape and size they want.

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)

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.
3. 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.

Almost every bubble was bigger then Mikey

Click on the pictures so you can see how awesome these bubbles really are. They are hard to see in these small pics but when you click you will get the full pic!

Other Ideas: Provide nets for Bubble catching

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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

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!

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)

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

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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Blowing Bubbles on paper. You just add some liquid water color to the bubble solution put a straw in and blow. Kaia has been big about blowing bubbles in her milk and apple juice so I knew she would enjoy it.

I also had pipe cleaners so the kids could make their own bubble wands in whatever shape and size they wanted.

Blowing bubbles with strawberry baskets

Bubble Solution 12 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

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)

Note: All these bubble recipes get better with time so make them a day or two ahead of time

***Variation-For colored bubbles like the ones we used in our art project add liquid watercolors or food coloring to your bubble solution***

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