Giant Bubbles
Learn how to make a DIY bubble wand to blow giant bubbles. Plus, the best homemade bubble solution!
Ingredients
For the Bubble Wand
- 2 Wood Dowels 5/8 inch
- 2 Eye Hooks 5/8 inch
- 3 yards Cotton Cord or Cotton Rope 1/4 inch cord, or slightly smaller rope
- 2-3 Nuts or Washers that fit over your cord
For the Bubble Solution
- 2 cups Dish Soap
- 4 tbsp Corn Starch
- 4 tbsp Baking Powder
- 6 tbsp Glycerin (3 fluid oz)
- 1/2 gallon Distilled Water
Instructions
- Screw one eye hook into one end of each wood dowel. You may need to drill a small hole into the dowels first to be able to screw the eye hooks in. (My son was able to screw the eyes in without drilling a hole first.)
- Cut the cotton cord into two pieces, one 5.5 feet and one 3.5 feet. Thread a couple of nuts or washers onto the longer cord. Then tie one end of each cord to the eye hook in the first dowel. Tie the other ends of each cord into the eye hook in the second dowel. This completes the bubble wand.
- Pour the bubble solution ingredients into a bucket or large bowel and stir to combine well. Solution can be used right away, but sems to work better after sitting for 24 hours.If solution gets foamy on top, use you hands to skim off the foam before blowing bubbles. Repeat skimming as needed while making bubbles.
- To blow bubbles, hold ends of the dowels and dip the cotton cord loop into the bubble solution. Pull the wand up, holding the sticks together.
- Separate the sticks to open up the cotton loop. If it's breezy, bubbles will blow with no effort. It it's not breezy, swing the bubble wand to blow bubbles.
- Quickly close the bubble wand back up to close off a bubble.
- You may be able to blow more than one bubble before re-dipping the wand. Watch the video in the post to see examples.
