Keith Johnson's
Outdoor Garland String Wand.
Because you
still want to bubble outdoors, even when the weather is way
too windy.
This is an excellent out door wand design for cranking out
pumpkin sized bubbles by the dozens in windy weather.
Unless anyone can claim ownership of the design, I'm
calling it Keith Johnson's Outdoor Garland String
Wand. Click here to see the
video. I hope you'll give it a
try and let me know what you think of it and
improvements I can make to it. Anyhow, it'll take you
only a few minutes to make. Here's how.
Take one of
your biggest tri-string wands. (I use three cotton strings
braided together for top and bottom strings, FYI) Open it
up in front of you and (to temporarily test the design) use
a twisty tie to secure the bottom point of the V string to
the top string. Now the V string is a W string. Secure the
two bottom pointy parts of the W string to the top string
as well. Now you have a series of four garland loops.
Actually, you can make as many loops as you like. Today was
really windy, so I was using 6 small loops. Now, dip her
into the bucket of juice and hold her up and the bubbles
are just going to FLY! 4 or 6 separate streams of basket
ball (and smaller) sized bubbles. If there's no wind, or
not enough wind pressure to make the bubbles, you can turn
circles or simply walk backwards. For a variety of bubble
sizes, make a variety of loop sizes.
So, there it
is. Keith Johnson's Outdoor Garland String Wand Design ~
it's in the public domain now, just give me credit when you
can. Unless someone else got to it first, and you'll let me
know if they did please. In all my searching I've not seen
it before.
Problems with the design... the little loops can flip
around in the dunking process (I haven't weighted the
bottoms of the loops yet). This didn't seem to cause too
much of a problem. The wind would open them up to different
dimensions and I never got really snagged up. I'm thinking
instead of a bucket, I'll use a flower box shaped tray or
wall paper tray to help with this. A faster solution worked
well, I think a much slower solution might be trouble.
