Monday, July 14, 2008
This morning I awoke to a major rainstorm which would normally be no big deal if I knew it was coming and had planned for an entire day inside with six little boys. But I was so exhausted last night that I didn't see the weather forecast and had no idea today was going to be rained out. Swimming lessons were cancelled which meant my entire day at the Lake was not going to happen and that meant I had nothing planned for my six little bundles of energy. Luckily we at least had the library to visit and that got us out of the house for a little while. On the way home I remembered a bottle of super bubble solution I had recently purchased and a book that came with it. I read the book a couple of weeks ago and I knew a hot, humid, sticky, rainy, thunder-bumper kind of day made for perfect bubble-blowing conditions. So, when we got home I pulled out the bubble solution and decided to try and entertain the kids with some soap. Things got off to a very rough start. This little invention didn't work at all and I had three very disappointed little boys on my hands. Frantically I started flipping through the book looking for alternative ways to blow some bubbles and read that we could blow bubbles with just our hands. So I gave it a try and the boys' interest was suddenly peaked. They made some pretty big bubbles that way and of course, once they got their hands in the stuff, they started making bubble landscapes and exploring their own ways of making bubbles. We tried a wire hanger but that didn't work. Then I remembered an article from Family Fun magazine about how to blow a bubble inside a bubble. So I ran inside for some cardstock, scissors and some tape and pretty soon we were doing all kinds of cool bubble tricks. The boys entertained themselves until lunchtime and miraculously we survived our first summer day cooped up in our own backyard.
  
 
Anyway, I just thought I'd share some other bubble ideas just in case you fall asleep before the weather forecast and you find yourself in a similar predicament this summer. It's a pretty inexpensive but an entertaining way to spend the afternoon. And tonight when we did "hi-low" (where the kids each tell what the best and worst part of their day was) all three of the big boys mentioned blowing bubbles and how much fun they had and it was totally a spur of the moment activity! Excellent, if I do say so myself.
Good Clean Fun
Bubble Blowing Machine
Bubble Prints
This project doesn't use bubble solution but it does involves bubbles and it looks really fun.
This website has lots of crafts and ideas for bubbles.
And I just really like this poem about bubbles, mostly cause it's exactly what we did today!
posted by Shana # 9:28 PM 
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