BUBBLES! BUBBLES! BUBBLES!
Miss Barbara Stella from the Acton Discovery Museum's Traveling Science outreach program came to visit us yesterday. She brought us bubbles galore and we had a wonderful time being bubble scientists as we watched bubbles, played in bubble solution, blew bubbles, and explored bubbles.
Miss Stella first talked about the shape of bubbles, "spheres". No matter what shaped bubble wand she used, all bubbles turn into spheres! We learned that bubbles do best when it is moist, so she sprayed her spray bottle here and there to "wet" the air, so we could get the biggest and best bubbles.
She poked bubbles with a dry stick and it popped. When she wet the stick, the bubble would not pop.
We also saw trampoline bubbles bounce up and down, that were made with a large home-made foam tube bubble wand. After Miss Stella showed us bubbles galore, we got to play! We had dishes (yes, you are seeing correctly - dog dishes) with oodles of wands and cookie cutters to make bubbles. There was also a bubble window where a teacher got to pull up a plastic pipe with wire on the sides to make a bubble wall/window. With dry hands or fingers, the bubble window popped. With wet hands, we could put our hands in and out of the window. VERY COOL! We also blew into the bubble window to make LONG bubbles. So much fun! We did not get any "no kid faces photos" of the kids using their "air" to keep the bubbles up in the air. They used their own mouths to blow, giant straws, and paper funnels.
Even Mrs. Hill and Mrs. D got into the fun too! Mrs. D showed off how she uses her hands only to blow bubbles. Some kids got the hang of the no wand method too! We also blew up a bubble in a jar and put the top on it to keep the air out. The bubble lasted many minutes without popping. As soon as we opened the lid, the bubble popped!
A fun day had by all!
