Summertime is peak season for play clothes, flip flops, sunscreen, and all kinds of outdoor activities for kids. Making bubbles at home is cheap, easy, and tons of fun for all ages. Bubbles are a great way to entertain a whole rally of children at barbecues and birthday parties too! Today we’re learning tips for how to make bubbles that go the extra mile and how to make bubble solutions that produce big long-lasting bubbles.
Surefire Tips to Create Giant Bubbles
Check your forecast
The weather plays a big role in creating big bubbles. Moist air with a gentle breeze is ideal. The higher the humidity, the better. Try making bubbles in the morning when the dew is still on the grass, during mist or fog, or at dusk.
Sleep on it
Maximize the size and longevity of your bubbles, mix up the bubble solution and let it sit overnight before you use it. Bubble solutions get better with time.
Skim it
Foam is the enemy of successful bubbles. Use a large spoon to skim the foam off of your bubble solution as you’re using it.
Quality Counts
Use the best soap available to make top-notch soar-to-the-top-floor bubbles. David Stein, author of How to Make Monstrous, Huge, Unbelievably Big Bubbles recommends Joy dish soap. Dawn rated second, followed by Ivory. In European markets, he recommends Fairy wash up liquid and in Australia Morning Fresh. We’ve got his book and love the included giant “bubble thing.”
Bubble Solution Recipes
Not all bubbles are created equal! Check out some of the best homemade bubble solutions you can make with ingredients you’ve already got on hand. While you gear up for bubble play, be sure to use this great idea for dispensing and storing bubble solution too.
Super Duper Non-Toxic Homemade Bubbles and Wands from Honestly
7 Recipes for Amazing Bubbles from BabySavers 
Giant Bubble Recipe from Busy Kids Happy Mom 
Wedding Bubbles in a Jar from Emmaline Bride
Sugar Sweet Bubble Soap Recipe from Blogging While Nursing 
Homemade Bubble Solution from Pantry Ingredients from Pretty Providence
Kool-Aid Bubbles from Growing a Jeweled Rose
9 Backyard Bubble Solutions from Apartment Therapy
Note: For those of you who don’t have time to stir together some bubble juice, this bubble solution has great ratings on Amazon.
Test out these bubble recipes and let me know which one’s your family’s favorite! Stay tuned for lots more bubble fun coming your way in the next few weeks. Follow me on Twitter so you don’t miss a thing!
This is such a fun post! Koolaid bubbles? Jello bubbles? Can’t wait to try those! 🙂 Pinned & sharing!
Thanks, Carrie! I know, I think I’d be crazy about those yummy smelling Kool-Aid bubbles. I can’t wait to try a bunch of these myself. My kids love bubbles!! In fact a couple of weeks ago a friend whipped out a bottle of bubbles when our babies were getting antsy in the nursery. It was a genius move that kept them enthralled until the sermon was over and later inspired this bubble series.
Ok. You are going to laugh. But it was only very recently that I figure out that foam =bad in bubbles. These are awesome tips and I’m def going to make my one year old more bubbles!
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Madaline, I never knew that until recently either. I had such a hard time trying to figure out why my two year-old’s recycled wedding bubbles container just would NOT work when I refilled it. Turns out I wasn’t using the right formula and all we were getting was foam. So glad you stopped by today! Hope to see you around again soon.
Bubbles are like the cornerstone of summer fun (along with sidewalk chalk). Speaking of which… I did the sidewalk painting with the girls… so glad you reminded me of that activity.
What a fun round up of bubble solution recipes/ideas! Kool-Aid bubbles?! No way!
Thanks for sharing Jelli.
Wishing you a lovely day.
xoxo
Thanks for linking to Create Link Inspire at The Crafty Blog Stalker. You have been featured and pinned! Thank you for sharing.
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Thank you so much, Katie! What an honor. Glad you liked the bubbles!
This is such a fun post, I will have to add this to our summer activities list. Thanks for sharing via Mommy Monday.
XOXO
Glad you liked it! Hope you find time to try out a few of these solutions to see which works best for you. Thank you for taking the time to stop by!
Hi Jelli,
So many bubble ideas!!!We all love bubbles:):)
Thanks for sharing!!!
You bet! Bubbles are so much fun and when done outside there’s absolutely no clean up required. Gotta love that! Thank you so much for visiting this weekend.
You know I don’t even have kids but I still love a good time outside with some bubbles. I wonder if that makes me look funny? But I also know I don’t care, you are only as old as you feel!
Nope, not strange at all. I love bubbles too! At the science museums, the hands-on bubble areas are my faves! Thanks for stopping by, Shae.
Great tips! I had no idea that letting the solution sit overnight would help!
That was all new information to me too, Alexis! Just one of the fun bubble facts in this book. Aside from including the giant bubble wand, it’s got all kinds of bubble science info that I really enjoyed reading. (Yes, that’s an affiliate link 😉 Thank you so much for stopping by this week. Hope to see you around again soon!
I love this!!! I’m definitely pinning it. What a great, comprehensive Bubble how-to! thanks!!!
Thank you so much for sharing, Shana! I hope that you and your family have a great time testing out these bubble recipes. Hope to see you around again soon.
I love this idea for homemade bubbles. Thanks for sharing at Mom’s Library on Pounds4Pennies. I have featured this amazing post this week. Please stop by to link up more summer fun activities!
So glad you liked it, Amy. Hope you give a few of these recipes a try. I’d love to know which is your favorite! Thank you for the feature this week. I’m a big fan of Mom’s Library and have been linking up since Janine first started it ages ago. Have a great week.
Hey do you have any recipie for long lasting bubbles for bubble rafts?
Hi Aiswarya, I don’t even know what bubble rafts are. Could you send a link?
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~stone/bubble%20raft%20movies.htm
This is for an experiment.I want to make bubbles that can last really long like 2-3 days.
Thanks for the reply.Merry Christmas 🙂
Aiswarya, that sounds so cool! Unfortunately, I don’t have any bubble recipes that meet your needs. I’d sure love to hear about your findings though!
It’s okay.Almost figured it out.Thank You.I will be glad to share my observations :).
Thanks You.New year Wishes!!
Stopping by from Friday Favorites. Pinning this for some summer fun with the Grands!
Sure is nice to meet you, Shirley! Be prepared, your grandkids are gonna love these bubbles (even I do!) You’ll have to shoo them in one by one for lunch once they get started. Hope you have a fabulous summer