Quick Start: Where
Where:
Indoors or
out?
Bubbling indoors is fun to do but requires a bit
more supervision of the young ones and preparation of the
space. Inside, where the air is still, is where all the
truly awesome (small) bubble sculpturing takes place. For
instance, if you want to make ice cream cones like the one
you see on the bottom of this site's home page, stay indoors where the air
is still. Inside is where very young ones will have a
better time with bubbles too. The calm air will keep the
bubs close. Indoors there's no running into the street
without looking. Indoors, you might run into doors,
table edges, stairwells or animals. Nowhere is a safe
place for kids to play with bubbles unattended.
Remember too,
things can get messy fast. Bubble juice can be sticky and
slippery. Solution containers are easily dropped. Soapy
spheres will float around, leaving water marks on antique
armoires and tiny circles on windows and ceilings. Go to
the playroom, basement, garage, breezeway. Put newspapers
out, or drop cloths. Put bubble juice in bowls on a flat
surface to make dipping easy for everyone.
Those plastic
bottles the commercial solutions come in get slippery when
carried around and the necks of the bottles are so small,
tipping the whole thing over is easy to do. There are some
very good "no spill" bubble containers on the market, some
with multiple wand ports. Check out the Little Kids® No-Spill
Bubble Tumbler® in the picture!
Where:
Bubbling outdoors, assuming you are supervising,
is a blast. Set guidelines and boundaries before doling out
the bubble stuff. Outside wet and wild things can happen.
Big bubbles, and I mean REALLY big bubbles are possible,
given the right wand, perfect brew and wonderful
weather.
Little
bubbles will race with the wind. On a good weather day,
they will float away for minutes at a time. It's sometimes
like launching slow motion rockets or hot air
balloons.
I've
often sent big bubbles wobbling through the air, over
houses and neighborhoods away.
Bubble safe,
indoors & out!
Quick Start
Lesson Links: 1: Where . 2:
Weather
3: Wands . 4:
Wet Stuff
