Materials
- Pipe cleaners, one per child
- Several wide mouth containers of soapy bubble liquid
What to do
1. Give each child a pipe cleaner. Show them how to bend and twist the pipe cleaner to form a loop at the end.
2. The children make bubbles by blowing on the wand circle and by sweeping the wand through the air. Which method makes bigger bubbles? Which method makes more bubbles?
3. Practice making bubbles indoors, if you wish. Compare this to the movement of the bubbles outdoors on a slightly breezy day.
4. Can the children catch and hold the bubbles on the saturated bubble wands? Can they do the same thing using their dry hands? Why?
5. For a simpler version, an adult makes bubbles and challenges the children to touch them, catch them and jump on them.
Original poem
Bubbles floating in the air,
Bubbles floating everywhere.
And the only time they stop,
Is when the bubbles pop! pop! pop!
-Christina Chilcote, New Freedom, PA
