My girls squealed with delight when they got big, bouncy bubbles and when they were able to catch a bubble for a few seconds before it burst - not at all like the usual mixtures!īut I will warn … these are best blown outside, where both the soap and corn syrup will do less damage from any residue left behind any bubble “pops!” that occurred on patio furniture I wiped off with a damp rag just to be safe. You can make HUGE bubbles this way!Īs you can see from the pictures, we had a blast. 3 yards of 1/4 inch cotton cord or narrow cotton rope: 100 cotton rope can be hard to find, and polyester rope just doesn’t work as well, so I purchased 100 cotton cord in the. The straws become your handles and you dip the string into your bubble tray (a shallow tray or pan works well). To make the DIY Bubble Wand, you will need: 2 wood dowels, about 5/8 inch in diameter and 3 ft long: find these at Walmart, any craft store, any hardware store. □Īnd while we didn’t do it this time, as a kid I was taught to make your own wand by lacing string or yarn through two straws, then tying off the string once laced through. Surprisingly, the metallic ones worked best since the fuzzy ones absorbed a LOT of the solution and wasted a lot of it by dripping off. We used both the standard fuzzy pipe cleaners and the ones with the more metallic look and feel. Just mold the pipe cleaner around the cookie cutter and twist it off with the remaining pipe cleaner (excess becomes the handle). After my initial eye-roll about the wands being MIA, I decided they could make their own wands instead and it really worked out great - all done with items you’re likely to have on hand already.įor the wands, all you need are some pipe cleaners and cookie cutters in basic shapes (we used a star and a heart since they were easy to mold). I hadn’t planned on making our own wands till my oldest mentioned she couldn’t find their usual stash of plastic wands of every size and shape. The first two batches worked okay for little bubbles, but not to make the fun kind that bounces off blades of grass instead of being popped by them nearly instantly. I’ll be honest … I tried a couple of bubble recipes before settling on this one, which was my third different batch. This post solves both those problems: Make your own bubble solution AND your own bubble wands! Problem solved my friends! And how many times do those teeny-tiny wands go missing, leaving a bubble-blower without their essential tool? It happens … comes with the fragile bubble territory. Accidents happen, bubble machines go haywire, and bottles get tipped. I’m still not sure where all our bubble wands went.But the part of bubble-blowing that’s not great is how quickly one flies through the bubble solution. So when our kids decided that they wanted to blow bubbles and all I could find was bubble liquid, I figured that if we couldn’t locate our bubble wands, we should try making our own instead! 0:00 / 2:00 How to make a Bubble Wand - EP - simplekidscrafts - simplekidscrafts SimpleCrafts - 5 Minute Crafts For All 729K subscribers Subscribe 2. This means that we often have to put several items in the same spot… and that I can’t always find the things I’m looking for when I’m looking for them. (If you have it, I’d love to hear what it is!) But it seems like no matter how hard we try, we’re always running out of spots to put things. It’s possible that I just haven’t figured out the trick to keeping the house organized. I don’t know about your house, but with two adults and four kids living in ours, things sometimes get a little cluttered. Please see our full disclosure for further information. We only endorse products, services and merchants that we have personally used/tested and consider of the highest quality standard. This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission, at no extra cost to you, if you make a purchase through a link.
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