How to Make Bubbles for Kids

Blowing bubbles is a fascination of every child. The inherent joy of seeing those colored and uncolored bubbles rising in the air and filling the atmosphere is a treat to watch. Kids simply love it and even adults won't deny the fact that blowing bubbles is a real fun-time experience. The fun-filled experience is often hampered when parents complain of the money their kids waste in blowing bubbles. Well, kids do tend to waste money for the ingredients required in making soap bubbles; however, you can be frugal and yet creative, if you just give some thought to it.

How to Make Bubbles for Blowing?

Do you want to know how to make bubbles for kids, creatively and in within limited resources? Well, you can use the soap and detergents to make the soap bubbles at home.

How to Make Bubbles with Soap?
Soap and detergents are an integral part of our household products. While, kids love a bubble bath, they would surely love the idea of making soap bubbles at home, without buying something from outside. How to make bubbles with dish soap or shampoo, is an interesting thing to learn. The steps for making bubbles have been mentioned below.

• Select a container, in which you'll prepare the soap solution to blow the bubbles. Ensure that the container has a lid.
• Get some dish soap or shampoo.
• Next, you should know how to make a bubbles solution? Well, fill the container with water and put some amount of dish soap or shampoo into the container.
• Stir the contents of the container and tightly seal the container.
• Before shaking the container vigorously, ensure the lid is tightly closed.
• Search for some wire, band, straws, etc. Clean it first before you start using them.
• It is mandatory to stir the mixture properly, else the solution won't give you the desired results.
• Dip the wand / bent wire / straw etc. that you have, into the container.
• Lo and behold! Now, you can blow the bubbles into the air.

How to Make Bubbles with Glycerin?
Glycerin is a relatively cheaper ingredient that the parents can arrange for kids, so that the bubbles can be much better, a bit thicker and great to see! Now, let's learn how to make bubbles with glycerin.

• Collect soap, bowl, water, spoon and thickening ingredients like glycerin.
• Mix the dish soap or other shampoo that you have chosen in the bowl and add water to it. A suitable ratio of water and other ingredients is necessary, so that at the end the mixture works well. For instance, 1:1 soap to water ratio is best. You can try various combinations and check which one works best for you.
• Add glycerin to the solution. You can also add corn syrup but be careful that the amount of glycerin or corn syrup added must be in proportion to the other ingredients
• Stir the solution gently and mix it well.
• Taking your container outdoors would help you achieve better results. Storing the solution for one day would give you much better bubbles.

Important Tips
In the quest to blow bubbles, kids tend to be careless and end up doing something that hurts them or makes them fall ill.

• Bending the wand or the wire from one corner in a circular or heart or triangle shape can help you get good bubbles. Just bend your wire from one corner. Ask parents to help you in the process.
• Distilled water shows better results than tap water.
• Bubbles last longer during humid days.
• Don't drink the bubble solution, no matter how thirsty you are, it won't taste good. Be cautious, while using them. Drinking detergent and soap solutions can be harmful for kids.
• If you wish, add some food coloring material to make colored bubbles. Ensure that the coloring material is not harmful for kids.
• Prefer baby shampoos as they are meant for kids, instead of other shampoos and soaps.

Hope by now, you must have got some idea about how to make bubbles for kids. Have fun in preparing this task for children! Happy blowing bubbles!