Giant Bubbles

This weekend was my friend's birthday, she lives by the beach (in Hove on the south coast of England) and was having a social gathering and picnic. I decided to risk taking some entertainment with me as well as a bit of picnic food. The entertainment of choice: Giant bubble wands and bubble mixture. Who cares if it was only adults attending?!

The bubble mix and the "wands" are so simple and super quick to make. I looked for the instructions on various websites but these two have proved the best; this one for the bubble mixture and this one for the instructions on how to make the wands.

It had crossed my mind that I had to take two trains and then a 20 minute walk from my home to the location of the beach picnic with a litre of liquid sloshing about in a container in my bag - but what the heck - I did it anyway. I made everything the night before and put the bubble mix in a container (allegedly airtight! Um yeah!) and the next morning packed it into my bag and off I went. The mix actually did survive the journey relatively well, it leaked but only a tiny bit! Below you can see evidence of the bubbles in action!

Thanks to Beth - that's her in the top picture - for the photo's!

The long bubbles don't tend to float away, they are there and then they burst. With a bit of practise though you can make a giant bubble, by bringing the sticks of the wand together; sort of sealing the bubble, and then off it floats. (see third picture above) these were a lot of fun. It wasn't hugely obvious who on the beach was creating the bubbles so when they sailed over the heads folk enjoying a day out it was fun to watch them suddenly notice the bubble and try to work out where it had come from! 

At one point we had giant bubbles floating across the walkway, the Prom (short for Promenade) as we Brits call it, that runs along behind the beach and about 20 little children squealing with delight as they chased the bubbles and tried to burst them. One mum asked me where I bought the equipment from, when I told her I made it and it's soooo much cheaper than buying the things pre-made, she was surprised. I also said to do an internet search for "Giant Bubbles" so I hope she discovers this blog post!

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