how to bubble paint?

Would you like to introduce your child to bubble painting? Yes? Awesome — I’ve got just the recipe for you.

The bubble recipe I used in yesterday’s post didn’t live up to my expectations, so I went back to the drawing board (paint and soap laboratory?) and came up with something that creates big, rewarding bubbles that are easy to pull prints off of. While this worked for me, feel free to experiment with your own ratios and solutions. And if you come up with something good, please share it here. Thanks to Amy for suggesting Dawn soap and glycerin in yesterday’s comments. I love getting feedback 🙂

Make Straw Bundles. Tape or rubber band three or more straws together to create a massive bubble blower. Dip the bubble blower in a 2:2:1 ratio or liquid watercolors, soap, and water. Blow! This works a lot like a bubble blower. Very fun!

Use Bubble Toys. Dip a bubble-making toy directly into the liquid watercolor mixture (See Straw Bundles, above) and blow it onto the page.

Make Cards. Once dry, cut up your beautiful bubble creations to make gift tags, greeting cards, or bookmarks.

Make Multiple Colors. Overlap colors to create depth and layering in your work.

• Add three tablespoons of bubble solution and two tablespoons of paint to a cup.
• Mix the paint and bubble solution together.
• Place a piece of paper on the grass or a table.
• Dip the bubble wand or a straw into the bubble paint and then blow out bubbles so they land on the paper.

Blowing bubbles to make bubble art is a great way to bubble paint! Kids of all ages will love blowing bubbles to create bubble paint art masterpieces filled with unexpected colorful designs.

This run bubble art project also has a little science mixed in. You can discuss hyperbolic pressure and other fun science concepts while you are blowing a bubble or just enjoy making a mess creating colorful designs with your kiddos.

When kids are creating bubble art, they are learning all sorts of things through play:

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With this bubble painting technique, no traditional paint is used for making the artwork. It is a homemade solution of water, dish soap, food coloring and optionally corn syrup that creates the homemade bubble painting paint.

For each color, mix the water and soap adding at least 10 drops of food coloring.

Gently blow into the colored bubble solution with your straw until bubbles form overflowing your cup.

Gently lay your cardstock over the bubbles. As the bubbles pop they will leave an imprint on the paper.

Repeat the process with that color or other colors until your page is covered with popped bubble art.

We used this as a color lesson as well. We originally made three batches, blue, yellow and red. My kids then helped mix blue and yellow or red and blue to create “new colors.”

This bubble blowing activity has been so popular here at Kids Activities Blog, we included a version of it in our first book, 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! under the title of Bubble Prints.

In this colorful bubble recipe, we added just a Tablespoon of corn syrup to stabilize the bubble solution so that instead of blowing the bubbles in the container, we could use a bubble wand to blow the bubbles straight onto the paper or canvas.

Related: Make a DIY bubble shooter

This Blowing Bubbles to Make Art activity was part of the unit where we studied “Air”  as part of our learning theme.