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How to Create Bubble Art Using Vibrant Colors

June 16, 2014 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: Create bubble art using straws and vibrant colors! This process art activity gets kids giggling as they blow colored bubbles into big mounds and watch them pop on the paper. The results are stunning!

 If you’ve ever made your own bubble mix recipe for art projects, you know how important it is to have a strong solution with vibrant colors.
Over my 15 plus years of teaching, I was never really happy with the bubble mix recipes I found because I wanted to make prints from them.
The bubbles would barely mound, and they left weak prints on the paper.
Finally, FINALLY, I’ve found a bubble mix that rocks!
Create bubble art using straws and vibrant colors! This process art activity gets kids giggling as they blow colored bubbles into big mounds and watch them pop on the paper. The results are stunning!

 

If you are a regular on my Facebook page, you have noticed that I love to share fun, easy kids activities! One of my go-to blogs is Kids Activities Blog. Everything I share from them gets huge attention, so I know my readers love their stuff, too! You can imagine how excited I was when their new book, 101 Kids Activities, came out. And you can imagine how SUPER excited I was when they sent me a copy so my preschoolers could try out even more fun activities!

I received a copy of 101 Kids Activities for review. All opinions are 100% mine. 

Since we are outdoors a lot during our preschool summer camp, and we love bubbles, I was inspired by their Bubble Prints activity. We’ve done bubble prints before, but not using this recipe. No wonder our results were never this nice!

 

How to Create Bubble Art Using Vibrant Colors

Materials we used:
4-6 drinking straws per child
containers for the solution
large sheet of paper
To make the strongest bubbles:
1 cup water
1/2 cup liquid dish soap
3 tablespoons corn syrup
food coloring

 
 
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Pour the liquid soap into a container.

 

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Add the corn syrup.

 

 
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Add your choice of food coloring. Because I wanted a few different colors, I divided the solution before coloring it.

 

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Now the solution is ready to go!

 

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Next I taped 4-6 drinking straws together, one for each child. If you think your child might inhale rather than exhale, use bubble wands.

 

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Now, the fun begins!

 

 
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There was lots of giggling from our happy preschoolers as they started making MOUNDS of bubbles. This is where my past efforts with this activity failed. We’ve never been able to create so many bubbles at once!

 

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This was the perfect activity to do outdoors because the bubbles eventually rolled off the table. (And the preschoolers found that REALLY funny.)  As the bubbles settled, the colors blended onto the paper, creating a nice print that we admired.

Create bubble art using straws and vibrant colors! This process art activity gets kids giggling as they blow colored bubbles into big mounds and watch them pop on the paper. The results are stunning!

I’ve been asked if we could do this again next week. But of course we can!

 

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You can find this activity, as well as 100 other activities for kids of all ages, in Holly Homer and Rachel Miller’s new book, now available through Amazon:

 

 

 

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Manjusha Vijay

    June 26, 2014 at 1:10 pm

    Simply amazing. How we can create bubble prints for our little ones so easily and instantly following these tricks. Thanks for the information. Please check our site if you are looking for preschools in Whitefield Bangalore.

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