Parenting Guru: Make a bubble blower with your kids

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Here's a simple, inexpensive 5-step process to make a bubble blower. It's a great activity for kids ages 2 and up... my 7-year-old is even hooked on it! You'll need:

  • small plastic cup

  • drinking straw (cut in half to make smaller)

  • hole punch

  • rubber band

  • thin, disposable dish cloth, like Handi-Wipes, cut into 5-inch (or so) squares

  • bubbles: pour thin layer onto a dish or in a wide bowl


Instructions:
about a quarter inch below the rim, punch a hole

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lay cloth over top and use rubber band to attach

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stick straw through hole, about a half inch in

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turn cup upside down and dip cloth into bubbles

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blow into straw (make sure your child is able to blow first. I recommend practicing blowing first, to insure the child doesn't inhale when she puts her mouth on the straw.)
The kids will be so excited that they are making bubbles! It's fun to see how high their bubbles can go, and just as fun to blow the bubbles off the top. Enjoy!

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Thanks to Gail at Kesher Israel Preschool & Kindergarten in West Chester, PA, for sharing this fun activity! Post includes affiliate link.

Julie Meyers Pron is a Shine! Parenting Guru and a member of the Y! Mother Board. She blogs daily atJust Precious about organization, fashion, parenting and education... and anything else she feels like chatting about. Follow Julie on twitter and fan her on Facebook. Love what she's writing? Subscribe to her RSS feed.