Tried another bubble art thingy today: but this time it is blowing soap bubbles.
This one is really messy though. The basic idea was from the Net too, but I had to make several modifications because it is really messy and more difficult to get nice results like the the packaging bubble wrap one.
First, must mix the paint and water then add detergent. My first mixture didn't mix well because I followed the instructions on the web and added soap, water and paint together.
Must lay out a lot of newspapers. Even so, must make sure kids wear old clothes. See what a mess they ended up in. Ds1 had paint on his whole face too. My carpet also has paint now.
The other hazard will present itself if you have more than one child and you are trying to work with the older one to make some nice bubbles. then the one at the toddler stage happily takes the straw and sucks up the nicely coloured liquid, thinking it is a great drink.
couldn't scream at him too, because in his mind, that's what straws are for, to suck, not to blow, and the liquid really looks colourful. arrgghh, besides rinsing his mouth out and hoping he didn't consume too much, just have to hope he won't suffer from other adverse effects. this pic above shows him being asked to drink a LOT of water in the aftermath, in hope of diluting the paint and detergent within him.
ds2 was given a paintbrush and some paper to paint actually, so that's what he continued with, after the "incident".
Apart from these, the rest of the session was enjoyable. I have not tried it myself and was surprised to see the patterns made. Was fun for me too. Ds1 enjoyed the blowing most. He blew until mountains emerged and everything spilled over to the newspapers. (below)
Ok, so the next step is to blow bubbles into the bowls or plates and catch the bubbles with paper. When the bubbles pop on the paper, they make patterns. Very beautiful indeed. Cos there'll be big and small bubbles, separate or clustered alternately...
Effect of sole colours: (yellow was too faint, so it's not pictured)
Besides using the primary colours, can mix them tog too. That's what we did after doing primary colours only. We did 2 kinds of mixing. First, we did mixing on the paper, meaning, blow red then blow yellow then blow blue or green.
Effect below: (can teach child the colours mix only a little if they're blown separately)
The other kind was to pour the colours tog. For better effect, should use another bowl, but we just poured everything into one bowl. Like blue pour into red, making a purple concoction.
Effect of this kind of mixing was more drastic of course, that's what the child will note (below, left and center):
Then we tried dipping the straw into the mixture and lifting it out of the bowl to blow onto the paper. The results were different. Instead of clusters, most bubbles were singularly made as the solution within the straw was limited. (effect shown in above pic, top and bottom right)
For those of you who have bubble blowers with patterns, it would be great! Can make potentially very nice patterns, i think... like flowers and so on. Too bad I don't have it here and wasn't about to go buy one specially.
Finally, I felt it was a pity to throw the remaining mixtures away, cos they're precious paint.. :-) So we did string painting. Just dip some strings into the paint and print on paper. ds2 just used his paintbrush to anyhow paint...
I had some music on (the Kindermusik CD we got last week) and ds1 actually flung his strings onto the paper like he was beating his drums. So he dipped and flung, dipped and flung along to the music. It was really quite fun! :-)
Some of the less messy ones shown here:
