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note about water: Some bubble experts say that the minerals in tap water can
make a bubble solution less effective. If you have a water softener in your
home, your water will contain less of the hard minerals that make tap water
“heavy” and less desirable for bubble solution. If you have hard water in
your pipes, you might want to use distilled water.
Combine the ingredients and then mix.
Note: These ingredients must be mixed very gently in the dishpan.
If this mixture is vigorously mixed, it will produce suds (lots of
tiny small bubbles stuck together) that will make the mixture unreliable for
blowing big, beautiful bubbles. So, if you are making this recipe with
children, encourage them that patience is also a necessary ingredient in the
process! Slow and steady wins the race to a great bubble soap solution.
If
you do end up with a soapy solution, you can put the solution aside until
the suds burst and leave the solution “flat” again. On the other hand, try
blowing bubbles with a sudsy solution. Talk with your child about what
happens: Are they able to get the solution to stick to their bubble wand?
If so, can they blow bubbles? Are the bubbles big or small? Later, use a
“flat” solution and compare what happened with the sudsy solution.
Sometimes the best teaching moments and learning experiences come out of
unintended outcomes!
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