Summer Science Fun with Bubbles - EXPERIMENT

What you need:

• 3 tray containers  or bowls
• Dish soap
• Shampoo
• Bar soap
• Water
• Bubble wands and blowers
• Paper
• Pencils and colouring/drawing tools

 

What to Do:

1. Mix 1/3 dish soap to 2/3 water in one container
2. Mix 1/3 shampoo with 2/3 water in another container
3. Put water and the bar soap in another and try to later it up into a solution.
4. Pose the question to your child: “which solution do you think will make the best bubbles (Dish Soap, Shampoo or Bar Soap?)
5. Write the words “I PREDICT” on a piece of paper and have them draw a picture while you write their prediction sentence on it.
6. Have your child begin to test each solution (dipping the wand/bubble blower in the dish soap solution and blow and then repeat for the other solutions). 
7. Encourage your child to talk about what they see and what they notice.
8. Have your child draw a picture of what happened and which solution made the better bubbles.  You can help them write their sentence about which one.
9. Let your child continue to play with the bubble solution and finish using them all up. 

 

HAVE FUN.