Blowing the bubbles !

When you are on vacation and finally get time to play with your toddler, you need to innovate and be very good at that to keep them occupied. They have a very big devil’s workshop and you better be prepared if you don’t care much. But things of small stature keep them happy and occupied and nothing better than balloons and bubbles. So my father & I decided to make him small soap bubbles to keep him occupied; we were reasonably successful, but it engrossed us adults more than the kid and we continue to enhance the formula to make very large bubbles using home made ingredients. 

We started off initially with a mix of liquid hand wash and water, but we were partly successful. We later graduated to making it with Shampoo + liquid hand wash and we were pretty successful in making bubbles which were about the size of a football, but the strong binding was missing and the bubbles would go bust in a matter of a few seconds. Later our success was in mixing sugar and liquid dishwasher soap (Vim) and ahoy! We were successful! We are able to make bubbles with about 50 cm diameter and last up to a minute or so.

Some pics of our insane and kiddy activity below. I found out that glycerin is a very good binding agent vis-à-vis sugar and we hope to try that out soon. I want to make a bubble which is 1 meter in radius (2 mts wide), I’m also experimenting the use of vacuum cleaner to blow the bubbles as blowing the current bubbles will take your breath away! Science is fun !