Bubbles & Bows

The Castle Keepers and Defenders met yesterday for their final meeting for the 2013/2014 year.

The girls made hair bow holders (painting picture frames)and hair bows. There were some very beautiful ones!

Here’s one of them up close.

The girls wearing our club colors and t-shirts we designed.

While the girls were busy making hair bows, the Castle Defenders and I were outside doing a few things ourselves.

First on the agenda was to make sun tea.

Then we blew some bubbles. 🙂

…and then we did a few experiments from http://www.hometrainingtools.com/a/super-soap-bubble-solution/.  After blowing a bubble on the lid, the kids would insert different objects into the bubble like this plant…

…and these scissors. It was pretty interesting.

Then we attempted to make giant bubbles using bubble wands the boys put together.

We ran into one problem

…that made it difficult to get any bubbles at all.

And that was the wind.

So if you try this at home, please take my advice and do it when it is calm outside.

We tried it last night when there was not even a breeze and it worked so much better. It really was quite enjoyable and a nice thing to do with the kids.

We used the bubble solution recipe from The Happy Hooligans. It calls for glycerine which you can find at any pharmacy even Wal-Mart, right on the shelves.

May you have many giant bubbles! 🙂