We’ve had some big adventures with the homeschool club this year. During the first semester, we made ice cream, did a leaf chromatography experiment, performed many light experiments, built a hovercraft, taught many robotics classes, and today we made flashlights, batteries, and built circuits. Richard and I (and the other parents who help out) are really exercising our science-teaching muscles.
Do you want to know the favorite activity, according to one of the students?
Bubbles.
(We did this just for fun while the kids waited for turns to ride the hovercraft.)
Here’s a good recipe for homemade bubble solution. Ask your pharmacist for the glycerine.
- 2/3 c Dawn dish soap
- 3 tsp. glycerine
- 1 gal. distilled water
Mix all ingredients and allow to sit uncovered for four days. It just gets better with time. While you’re at it, you should try making your own bubble wand out of a hanger. Bend it into a circle and wrap cotton yarn around it so it will soak up bubble solution. You can make huge bubbles with this.
Here’s another solution we tried, but it didn’t work as well as the first:
- 2 c Dawn dish soap
- 6 c water
- 3/4 c Karo syrup (corn syrup)
*Photo by my friend, Monica.