We prepare a solution for soap bubbles with our own hands: recipes for liquids, from small to large and non-popping

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Soap bubbles delight children of all ages. With their help, you can turn any day, even the most boring, into a holiday. Water balls can be very small and huge. The strength, touch resistance, volatility and number of clear toys produced depend on the blow molding material. You don't have to buy soap show solution in the store; you can easily make it yourself at home using simple ingredients.

Useful tips

When preparing a surprise, parents need to follow some recommendations, in this case the holiday will be successful:

• Say no! tap water. It contains impurities that reduce the quality of the final result. The best option is boiled water, the ideal is distilled water.
• Sugar and pharmaceutical glycerin give the balls strength.
• Correctly calculate the ratio of components for the solution. If there is an excess of glycerin, the bubbles will be too dense and difficult to blow out.
• If you don't find glycerin at home, use sodium tetraborate. It contains glycerin as an excipient.
• If you make a mixture with cosmetics, choose a product with a minimum amount of dyes and fragrances. Excess impurities reduce the density of the balls and complicate the blowing process.
• If you plan to play magic with a younger child, then reduce the amount of foaming ingredients by half. The baby will be able to blow out the balloons himself. They will be light, in large quantities, but will burst quickly.
• After preparing the solution, leave it in the cold overnight or overnight.
  During this time, excess foam will settle, the ingredients will mix well, and the solution will be of high quality.
• Use homemade solution indoors. Wind and street dust prevent the creation of a magnificent show from a large number of bubbles.
• Increase the humidity in the room before playing. Moisture helps the bubbles last longer.
• When you mix the components, check the quality of the solution. Inflate the balloon. If it bursts quickly or does not inflate at all, add glycerin. If it is difficult to blow, the bubble is heavy, you need to add a little water and mix well.
• Giant balls are slowly blown out of a wide hole. Small ones are made from straws.

Important! Remember that the soap solution stings your eyes. If an unpleasant situation occurs, do not scare the baby. Rinse your eyelids with water and calm your child down. But it’s best to tell them that this happens in advance.

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About the influence of weather and drafts

When a celebration with bubble fireworks is planned outdoors, the quantity and quality of rainbow balls will significantly depend on weather conditions. Not recommended

• blow bubbles in strong winds, especially when there is dust;
• organize a holiday with soap balls on summer days, when the air temperature is more than 25 ° C., which is more relevant for residents of the southern regions of Russia.

But when it rained or the area in front of the house was recently watered, causing the air to become humid, the celebration with the soap show will go off with a bang. It is better to schedule it for the morning or evening.

If children want to blow bubbles at home:

• it is important to avoid drafts, as they will become a nuisance;
• The room should not be too hot, moderately humid and not at all dusty.

It should be remembered that when soap balls burst, they leave streaks on the floor and furniture. The consequences depend on the composition of the solution and the characteristics of the surface.

Laundry soap solution (classic)

This is the easiest recipe for making soap bubbles at home. You will need:

• grated or cut into small pieces soap – 10–20 g
• glycerin alcohol - 2 tsp.
• half a glass of hot water.

Proceed as follows:

1. Rub a piece of soap and place it in a wide container.
2. Pour boiling water over, stir well.
3. Wait until completely dissolved.
4. Strain.
5. Add glycerin or sodium tetraborate. First 2 tsp.
6. Check the strength of the balls. If the bubble bursts quickly, add another 1-2 tsp. glycerin.
7. If there is no glycerin, use sugar or gelatin.
   Add them in equal proportions: 10 g each, then more if necessary.

Important! Choose your soap carefully. Do not use scented detergent. Take household glycerin. They do not contain unnecessary additives.

Quality checking

The shapes, sizes, strength and “durability” of bubbles depend on the chosen recipe, the set of ingredients and compliance with the cooking sequence and proportions of the ingredients.

The best indicator of quality are neat balls or fancy multi-layered figures, shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow and flying in the air not only for a few seconds, but even for a few minutes.

Quality check, inflate the soap sphere, and then dip your finger in the prepared foam and touch the ball.

If it doesn’t burst, the quality is excellent, the composition is prepared correctly.

If the sphere does not inflate or bursts quickly, then this is not a reason for frustration - you just need to add a foaming agent (shampoo, soap, detergents), glycerin (a few drops) or a little sugar.

Recipe for a solution without glycerin

Glycerin alcohol is available in store-bought bottles. For a homemade homemade version, this is not necessary. It is replaced by other components:

• liquid dish soap – 70 ml
• sugar – 50 g
• water – 70 ml
• shower gel (unscented) – 70 ml.

Making the solution takes a couple of minutes. First dissolve the sugar, then add AOS, Fairy, Biolan. Let it brew for a couple of hours. If there is a lot of foam left on the surface, remove it.

This is interesting! To add a rainbow to the game, use natural dyes. Pour Easter egg coloring into a soap bowl. For the most chic effect, pour the mixture into small bottles and color it in different shades.

Dishwashing liquid solution

This is ideal for blowing giant bubbles. Prepare the solution as follows:

1. Boil water, 400 ml. Cool it to 30–35°C.
2. Pour in Fairy, at least 100 ml. Practice shows that it foams and bubbles best.
3. Add granulated sugar to the solution - 2 tsp.
4. Stir the finished mixture.

Important! Only regular dishwashing detergent is considered safe for children. Do not use dishwasher liquid. It does not foam and contains active chemical components.

Composition for “baby” soap balls

Small children do not like it when the air bubble bursts and liquid gets into their face. To prevent toddlers from rubbing their eyes and being capricious, the composition for the magic balls can be easily prepared using gentle baby shampoo. For this purpose you need to take:

• 250 ml (large glass) water;
• half a glass of shampoo intended for babies;
• 1.5 tbsp. spoons of granulated sugar.

Pour hair washing liquid into slightly warmed water, mix until smooth and leave overnight. In the morning, add sugar, stir again and voila! “Magic water” for bubbles is ready. We pour it into a convenient bottle and take it with us for a walk.

Shampoo solution

There is a secret in the step-by-step instructions. If you use baby shampoo without tears, then the eyes will not sting when the solution gets in. Make these bubbles for games in a kindergarten group when there are a lot of kids. They push each other, soapy liquid splashes into their eyes. But adult shampoo will also work.

Mix the mixture like this:

1. Dilute 200 ml of shampoo in 400–500 ml of water.
2. Lather it up and let it sit for a day.
3. Add glycerin - 6 tbsp. l. or granulated sugar - 6 tsp.
4. Keep in the cold for a couple of hours.
5. Carry out a soap experiment with kids of any age without fear for their eyes.

This is interesting! Jean-Baptiste Chardin was the first famous artist to depict soap bubbles on canvas. The work dates back to 1734. It depicts a man blowing a transparent ball out of a tube, and a child who watches with admiration what is happening.

Bubble bath solution

Make soap balls in the bathtub while bathing. Toddlers often do this. Let's take advantage of their experience.

A solution for making soap bubbles with your own hands from bath foam is easy to prepare, and the balls do not burst for a long time. The mixture will consist of simple ingredients:

• boiled water – 100–120 ml;
• bathing foam – 250–300 ml.

If you want the bubbles to be touch-resistant, add 30–40 g of glycerin. There is no need to infuse the mixture.

Important! After boiling, sediment (scale) remains in the water. Try not to add it to soap liquid. It is better to carefully drain the water or strain without stirring it. Scale flakes prevent bubbles from forming.

The balloon simply will not inflate due to the heaviness of the solution.

Show

To create your own bubble show, experiment with different ingredients. As tools, use a children's inflatable pool and a hoop wrapped in cotton cloth. Dip the hoop into the solution and place a small chair in the center of it. Invite the guest to stand on it, and slowly raise the hoop so that the person standing on the chair finds himself in a huge soapy “cocoon”. If you want to surprise your guests, add a little medical glue to the liquid and blow bubbles using several straws fastened together - they will stick to your hands and not burst. If you add paint, your show will become not only fun, but also colorful. Do not exclude musical accompaniment and the help of an assistant.

Liquid soap solution

An easy way to create a soap show at home. They replace the classic recipe with laundry soap. Use the liquid version of the product so as not to wait for the pieces to dissolve in water. Balls based on flowing soap will inflate easily and have a pleasant aroma. For the experiment, a baby product or any other without color and strong odor is suitable.

You need to dilute the mixture like this:

1. Take water - 20 ml.
2. Add 100 ml of liquid soap to the container.
3. Mix and place in the refrigerator on the bottom shelf for 2-4 hours.
4. Drop a little glycerin - no more than 10 drops.
5. Release transparent balloons at home while walking.

This is interesting! Every year on May 10, Samara hosts a bubble festival. Participants in the children's show compete to blow the biggest, strongest and most beautiful bubble. The holiday is fun, and local kids are indescribably delighted.

Safety rules come first

To ensure that the preparation for your home bubble show and the event itself go without incident, it is important:

• explain to the child that the soap mixture cannot be tasted, and the balls themselves are not allowed to be caught in the mouth or licked from the hands - this is dangerous;
• make sure that the composition does not get into the baby’s eyes or nasal passages, and if this happens, rinse the victim’s face with clean running water;
• Explain to your child that you should blow beautiful bubbles by exhaling air from yourself, and not vice versa.

At the end of the soap ball show, all participants should wash their hands.

Washing powder solution

The bubbles from hand washing powder are large and strong. You can hold them in your palm for a couple of seconds. The production of the solution takes a long time, but the end result is worth it.

Prepare the following ingredients:

• hot water (from 45°C) – 500–600 ml;
• 20 g of washing powder (without Lenor additives, antistatic agents);
• ammonia - 2 tsp, or 20 drops.

Mix powder, water, shake. Then add ammonia and put the container in the cold for four days. After settling, strain the mixture through a fine sieve.

The solution is ready for experiments.

Important! This mixture should not be given to children under 3–5 years of age for independent experience in inflating balloons. Powder and ammonia can get into the baby's mouth if the professionalism of using the bubble tube is not yet at a high level.

Sugar solution

Before making the magic mixture, you will have to make your own sugar syrup. It is not difficult:

1. Take sugar - 5 parts and warm water - 1 part.
2. Mix.
3. You will get a viscous mixture.

Now we can return to the bubbles. Mix the following ingredients:

• sugar syrup – 100 ml;
• grated soap – 200 ml;
• glycerin alcohol – 200 ml;
• water (35–45°C) – 800 ml.

Combine the ingredients, shake, and leave to steep for 12 hours. Before use, remove excess foam from above.

This is interesting! Sugar is needed in the bubbles for strength and longevity in flight. It acts as a strengthening lubricant on the surface.

How to make huge bubbles

Bubbles with a diameter of 1 meter or more are considered large. Various methods are used to make them.

Recipe with gel lubricant

You will need:

• water – 1 liter;
• Fairy – 230 ml;
• Gel lubricant (technical lubricant) – 120–150 ml;
• glycerin – 120–130 ml.

Mix everything except water. Then heat the water and pour into the mixture. There is no need to whip up the foam.

Now the miracle begins. Children experience indescribable delight from everything huge. And the giant soap bubbles simply amaze their imagination.

This is interesting! The record for blowing a colossal bubble was set by the American company Beeboo Big Bubble Mix in 2005.

The volume of the soap ball was 3000 cubic meters. It was a master class on a global scale, as the company sells equipment for soap shows all over the planet.

Recipe with gelatin

The preparation of soap balls with gelatin takes place in several stages:

1. Dissolve 25 g of gelatin in warm water (500 ml). Take an iron cup; you will have to heat the dishes a little later on the stove.
2. Remove excess water - drain it, leaving a thick mass of gelatin in the container.
3. Add granulated sugar - 25 g.
4. Place the saucepan to warm up.
5. Melt, but don't boil.
6. Pour in 400 ml of water.
7. Add glycerin - 50 ml, Fairy - 100 ml.
8. Stir quickly. Do not shake until foamy.
9. The solution for giant bubbles, just like in the store, is ready.
10. Start launching soap balls immediately after the mixture has cooled to room temperature.

This is interesting! From a scientific point of view, a soap ball is a multilayer structure with a cavity inside. Water in different layers is attracted by molecules due to well-known physical laws (attraction and others.). If the layers are too thick, then the H2O atoms collapse, forming a single whole - a drop. Glycerin delays this moment, preventing water molecules from attracting.

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How to make strong bubbles

Tight bubbles are not made with soap base. For bounce and durability, other ingredients will be required:

1. water heated to 50–60°C – 300 ml;
2. washing powder – 25 g;
3. ammonia - 1 tsp;
4. glycerin – 150 ml.

To prevent the water balloons from bursting, place the mixture of components in the cold for 2-3 days.

Pass through a sieve and cool for another 10 hours. Balls made from a mixture of glycerin and alcohol can be held in the palm of your hand and played like a jumper.

This is interesting! Valery Koval, a Russian schoolboy, came up with a new technology for blowing strong bubbles of enormous size. He added rubber cement to the solution. The result was a soap ball with a diameter of more than two meters.

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Food coloring for color

The method is somewhat more complicated than in the recipe with gouache, but everything can be learned by comparison and you need to try this method to find out the “survival time” of the soap balls.

Subsequence:

• add food coloring (liquid or powder) to half a liter of purified water, gradually, focusing on the desired final color result;
• pour liquid soap (of a similar color or colorless) in an amount of 150 ml into the resulting color mixture;
• add the bulk composition - mix gelatin and powdered sugar, maintaining a 1: 1 ratio, for example, 20 g of each component;
• everything is thoroughly mixed to a homogeneous consistency and left to brew for 8 hours, for example, overnight.

What can you use to inflate?

The classic device for creating a party out of soap balls is a tube and straw. Today, showmen, and simply resourceful children and parents, use more modern options for this activity:

• a purchased bottle with a stick;
• ballpoint pen tube;
• a gun with a bubble inflation mechanism;
• plastic bottles (soda) without bottom;
• tennis racquet;
• carpet cracker;
• homemade wire stick;
• plastic funnel.

If you wish, you can find many devices and ways to blow the largest, most durable shaped and classic bubble.

Use your imagination and play!

Blowing tools

Among the tools for blowing soap bubbles, the straw is considered a classic. You can replace the straw with a cocktail straw or the body of a ballpoint pen. To adjust the size of the balls, it is enough to make longitudinal cuts on the sides of the tube. If you want to blow a large number of bubbles, spending a minimum of time on it, secure several cocktail tubes with tape.

Use paper as a blowing tool, namely thick cardboard. It is enough to twist a funnel out of it. This method is short-lived, but convenient for a short game in the absence of other options.

To blow large shapes, plastic bottles with the bottom cut off, a funnel, a carpet beater, or your own hands are suitable.

You can also make blow molding frames from available materials. They can be in the form of simple figures, or they can have the outlines of your favorite fairy-tale characters. For such frames it is better to use wire.

Fun with bubbles

There are a lot of group and individual games with soap balls. They can be used at children's parties, at home to lift the mood on sad winter evenings.

Soap matryoshka

You will need straws for cocktails, soap solution, and a saucer. Play with your children like this:

1. Pour the bubble liquid into a saucer.
2. Insert a straw into the puddle. Blow a big bubble. It stays on the plate.
3. Take out the straw, then insert it back inside the ball, make another smaller bubble.
4. Repeat several times. The bubbles should pout inside the previous ones, hiding, like in a nesting doll.
5. Have a competition to see how many parts there are inside the main soap ball.

Soap War

Buy a soap bubble generator. This is a special mechanism for blowing water balls of different sizes. For a group of preschoolers, a mechanical version is suitable, which is comfortable to hold in your hands. There is a container inside the gun for refilling the solution. The little ones press a key and the gun releases a series of soap balls.

Children's task: hit the enemy with bubbles. If there are a large number of children playing, you will have to refill the container frequently. But everyone will definitely like the game.

Frost

This is a science experience at home. In winter, go out with your children to the balcony or play outside. Blow the balloon carefully, do not make it big. If the surrounding temperature is less than –7ºС, it will freeze and collapse. Children will love watching the ball freeze as it freezes.

Drawings with soap bubbles

It is necessary to prepare colored solutions for inflation using natural dyes. Pour them into small bottles. Give the children straws and white A4 sheets. You need to inflate colorful balloons and burst them on paper to form a drawn circle. You can create a picture indefinitely, combining colors, drawing silhouettes with soapy lines. Adults can also join the team.

Ball-boats

Launching water rounds in the bath will give children a lot of fun.

Make bubbles float through the water by blowing in the direction of movement. Have a competition “Whose balloon will float to the edge first without bursting.”