Science Fun: Freezing Bubbles

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Indoor Outdoor Bubble Play

Freezing bubbles activity for awesome science play! Who doesn’t love blowing bubbles. You can do it year round indoors or outdoors too! Bubble science activities are definitely on our list of 25 Classic Science Experiments you must try! We also have played around with bouncing bubbles and more in our first bubble science experiment we tried. Since it’s pretty cold here, 19 degrees to be exact, I thought we would see if our bubbles would freeze outside for an extension on our indoor bubble play! Freezing bubbles is pretty cool but not all that easy!

Freezing Bubbles Activity

Bubble science is real and fun! Read more about the science behind bubbles here. We also watched a Steve Spangler Bubble Science Video afterwards and he was super excited to see the same ideas and a few more! We have more great Winter Science Play too, click here.

Supplies Needed:

Water
Light Corn Syrup
Water
Dish Soap
Container and Stirrer for Mixing Solution
Tablespoon and Cup Measures
Paper Cups and Markers
Straw

Freezing Bubbles Recipe: Mix 1 cup of water, 2 Tablespoons of corn syrup, and 4 Tablespoons of dish soap in container and mix together.

Freezing Bubbles Activity Outdoors And Indoor Bubble Play

If you like, you can draw snowman on your cups. My son loves blowing bubbles into great masses! The bigger the better. Please make sure your child is capable of blowing through a straw and understands not to suck in the bubble solution! How big will the bubbles get?

How about freezing bubbles? I suggested we try blowing the bubbles outside to see if it would be different. What would happen since it is so cold out. I checked the temperature at 19 degrees on our back porch, so we headed out. We were still able to blow great masses of bubbles like indoors. However, we noticed them start to freeze a bit over a few minutes. Sadly, there was a breeze and since the freezing was not immediate, we would loose our bubbles if a gust came along!

You could see the freezing bubbles change though which was pretty cool. Instead of the very transparent sparkling of the indoor bubbles, they became a bit cloudy {as he called them}. You could tell the bubbles were freezing and forming a shell. This was definitely evident when the freezing bubbles popped and left behind partially frozen pieces of the bubble!

We tried the freezing bubbles over and over again to see what would happen until we were too cold to continue. The waiting was the hardest part especially when a good breeze came along just as the freezing bubbles were looking good!

Freezing Bubble Science! Simple Fun Outdoors {And Indoors}.

This post originally appeared on littlebinsforlittlehands.com

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