Bubble Prints
| May 2019
Although not a generally encouraged practice at the dinner table, what kid—given a drink and a straw—won’t try blowing bubbles? Now take that passion for exploratory science and turn it into a fascinating art technique. With a drinking straw, food color, dish soap, and paper bubble-blowing will create intriguing and unique patterns.
Directions here:
1. Put a small amount of water in the bottom of a wide rimmed cup or small bowl. Add food color or liquid watercolor paint and several drops of dish soap.
2. Blow through a straw until the bubbles rise above the rim of the container.
HINT: to prevent a younger child from sucking in the bubble mixture, cut a small notch near the top of the straw.
3. Lower a piece of paper gently down on the bubbles, then lift off. The paper will pop the bubbles, leaving unique circular patterns on the paper.
4. Repeat, until the prints cover the entire paper.
Add fish for an underwater mural!
