Kaylee's Science Fair Project for Kindergarten was to test several bubble recipes and find the best one. To get right to it, the best recipe for GIANT bubbles that you can catch and even stick your hand in: Best Recipe: · 6 Cups of Water · 1/2 Cup of concentrated Dawn Dishsoap · 1 Tblsp of Glycerin (Amazon, Whole Foods, Craft Stores) That's it. Super Easy. We tried some other ingredients such as baking powder and corn starch, but neither seemed to improve on this simple recipe. Warning: Do NOT use un-concentrated dish soap as it simply does not work nearly as well. Even with barely any water added and lots of soap, we could never get the strong and giant bubbles we got with concentrated. Bubble Wands: We tried some wands from store-bought bubbles. They worked OK for small bubbles, but our bubble solution did not perform noticeably better than the store bubbles with these wands. We made homemade wands that we saw on this blog post (towards the bottom). To create the wands, we took two straws (ours were bendy straws, so we cut the bendy part off). Then we took a string and fed it through both straws then tied the string together at the ends. We tried various lengths of string, something at close to shoulder length seemed a good length. Getting the Most Fun Out of These Bubbles: These are not the sort of bubbles you are used to. It took us a lot of practice and playing around to find out how to make the most out of them. My older daughter discovered she could hold the bubbles in her hands if they were covered in the frothy bubbles from the bubble solution. My youngest daughter discovered you could use a normal bubble wand and blow bubbles directly onto soapy hands. And my son blew his own mind when he stuck most of his bubbly hand INSIDE of a bubble. Below are a few tips for getting the best bubbles: · Leave the string slack when dipping in the bubble solution, take the wand out of he solution, slowly pull the handles apart making the string taut before blowing the bubbles · Hold the taut wand at your hips, pull up to your chest at a medium pace and walk backwards. Leave the handles open to make a bubble snake. Push the handles closed to cut the snake into floating bubbles. · Cover hands in the frothy bubbles from the bubble solution to catch and poke inside of bubbles · Use soft gloves to catch and bounce bubbles
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We will write a full review this weekend, but the bottom line: JACK GOT TO MEET ADAM SAVAGE!!! He's been a fan since he was 3.5 (literally) and it has been his dream for several years to meet him and tonight he did. Both he and Michael Stevens are absolutely the real deal. We only had a few seconds with them but you could feel their warmth in those seconds. They are two dudes who are loving what they are doing and are loving sharing it with their fans. This year I did another Little Bits Showcase for my science fair. I wanted to do a more interesting build than the robot from last year. My dad and I came up with the idea for a "Candy Surprise" machine.. Whenever a kid tried to take a piece of candy from the bowl, the motion sensor would trigger a light, a servo with a sign attached to it saying "busted", a buzzer, and it would also count up the number of times people were busted on the number bit. We also challenged visitors by giving them a form with a bunch of different types of bits listed. They had to check off the bits they thought were used in our build. It was a fund build and even more fun watching everyone have fun trying to sneak the candy. We will provide build details in an update to this post. |
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