One of our summer fun items was to blow giant bubbles. I remembered reading that cloudy, humid days were good for bubbles (they're more iridescent and they last longer), but it's entirely possible I made this fact up. Anyway, yesterday was cloudy and humid and wide open before us, so I made a few guy-jantic bubble blowers for us to try.
Total failure from top to bottom, starting with my not following directions at all to not having enough bubble solution to the simple fact that our yard slopes down toward the creek so there are no flat surfaces to speak of*, and we couldn't get an even coating on our bubble wands.
How about some pipe cleaners?
That's more like it! I also mixed up more bubble solution, since someone had dumped the rest of ours out onto her feet (just as she'd threatened to do before I went inside in search of pipe cleaners). Again, it helps to read directions. Ours worked fine, but I'm sure my method of "oh, I remember reading that dish soap and corn syrup and water work well" wasn't the best.)
Giant bubbles. They were big, but not the moose-sized ones I've seen posted on the Internets. They were, at best, head-sized bubbles.
But still big bubbles! And that's what I need to remember - and thank goodness I have children to help remind me. Not everything needs to be picture-perfect. Not everything needs to be just so. Giant bubbles are awesome, and bubbles alone are awesome, and particularly these bubbles, since I wasn't harping them about spilling the solution and they could both blow bubbles at the same time and it was easy-peasy to blow with the pipe cleaner wands.
Also, whether it's a scientific fact or not, our cloudy-day bubbles were brilliantly iridescent, so much so that Peter commented that every bubble had a rainbow inside.
*This problem - everything's at an angle - has caused us so many spilled paints, dinners, waters, projects, and other mishaps when we're outdoors. You'd never have realized just how treacherous gravity can be until you've tried to conduct messy art projects with twelve preschoolers on a table tilted at a 30 degree angle.
i like Peter's Eagles shirt!
Posted by: Jared | August 06, 2011 at 05:24 PM