Making Bubbles
Making Bubbles offers sensory-rich exploration using everyday household items. By mixing soap and water (with options to customize tools or add color), kids build oral motor skills and breath control, discover cause-effect, and engage with tactile/visual experiences. They learn basic science—with adaptations like rainbow bubbles, team challenges, creative setups, or safer play hacks for low-cost fun.
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What do you do:
Squeeze washing-up liquid into your tray.
Add water (a little at a time) and gently mix. You want a nice soapy solution, not a bubble bath flood.
Take your plastic bottle. Carefully cut the bottom end off (grown-ups, this step is for you!).
You now have a bubble wand with a built-in handle.
Dip the cut end of the bottle into the soapy mixture.
Lift it out, and then get your child to blow through the top of the bottle.
What's Needed:
A shallow pan or tray
Washing-up liquid (dish soap)
Water
A plastic bottle (empty & clean)
Scissors
How to Adapt
Food colouring magic – Add a few drops of food colouring to the water for rainbow bubbles (best done outdoors).
Team challenge – Who can blow the biggest bubble, or the longest bubble snake?
Creative play – Use different bottle sizes, or even cut the ends of multiple bottles
Quiet play hack – If your child tends to inhale rather than blow (we’ve all been there), you can swap the bottle for a straw and ask them to blow onto the surface of the water instead of through it.
Benefits of the Activity
Oral motor skills – Blowing bubbles is great for developing breath control and strengthening little mouths.
Cause & effect learning – Children see that blowing = bubbles (instant science!).
Sensory play – Soapy water, shiny bubbles, and that satisfying “pop!”
Affordable fun – You only need things you already have at home.
