Soap bubble painting - Arts, Crafts and DIY

35 Comments

Such a fun, messy play activity for kids of all ages. It is messy so have old cloths on hand to mop up and have your child wear old clothes or a paint smock. For some very enthusiastic kids, bubbles that are blown very hard tend to pop near their eyes/face so get them to blow gently! Alternatively, you could have them wear swimming goggles to keep the bubbles out of their eyes.

Material

Dishwashing liquid
Washable paint
Water
Heavy construction paper
Straws
Medium bowl

Method

In a medium bowl, combine 1 part water to 2 parts paint and 2 parts dishwashing liquid. Mix really well.
Blow through the straw into the paint mixture to create "soap bubbles". Get the bubbles to bubble up over the lip of the bowl.
Place a piece of paper over the bubbles to catch their pattern on the paper. Use heavier paper so that the soap bubbles don't wrinkle or disintegrate the paper.

Repeat again and again and again.

Notes

Get your child to practice blowing out of the straw before putting it in the paint mixture. Kids automatically suck up with a straw (even the older ones!)

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- mom19782016
- 11 Jun 2016
  1:21 pm

35 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 11 Jul 2021
    9:00 am
Lots of fune to be had.

- - tessie said
  - 24 Jun 2021
    4:45 pm
This looks like a fun idea for kids and those adults young at heart

- - shanika said
  - 24 Jun 2021
    12:23 pm
We did this at home.

- - mom112217 said
  - 24 Jun 2021
    9:31 am
Alot of fun to be had here!

- - rovermum said
  - 24 Jun 2021
    9:01 am
Haha, what a fantastic and fun craft idea for the kids.

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 23 Jun 2021
    10:32 pm
I use to do this at home, it was o much fun. I just loved it,

- - Mumofboys said
  - 23 Jun 2021
    9:42 pm
I remember doing these in school! I totally forgot about it! I will have to do this once my boy gets bigger

- - Zmijka86 said
  - 23 Jun 2021
    8:09 pm
Sounds like a lot of fun for kids to do it.

- - Mrs.twinmama said
  - 23 Jun 2021
    8:08 pm
I love how fun and simple this looks! Great activity for a kid.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 16 Oct 2020
    4:29 pm
You can then use the paper to wrap gifts!

- - curlytops said
  - 21 Jun 2020
    1:06 pm
I’ve tried this before and then used the paper when dry for thank you paper.

- - Ellen said
  - 28 Apr 2020
    7:37 am
Which child doesn’t like messy play Instead of paint you could use food colouring as well !

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 25 Mar 2020
    8:54 pm
This is great fun!

- - Angie1981 said
  - 19 Oct 2019
    9:33 am
I can’t wait to try this on the next sunny day we have. Not game enough to try it inside but definitely looks like lots of fun

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 13 Sep 2019
    9:26 pm
Luckily there is warmer weather coming, as this would be great for an outdoor activity.

- - Mum2archer said
  - 30 May 2019
    9:24 pm
A great idea to do with my son! Im sure he will love to do this! Anything thats messy he likes lol

- - Tashs88 said
  - 25 May 2019
    11:33 pm
Love this idea. brings back memories doing this myself as a kid. Cant wait to try this with my son.

- - mom81879 said
  - 21 May 2019
    4:58 pm
Oh my gosh, this looks like so much fun. Messy, but creative and so much fun

- - AmbieBambi said
  - 28 Mar 2019
    7:44 pm
This sounds fun! I’ll give this ago on a non preschool day with my kids!
- AmbieBambi replied
  
  30 Mar 2019 , 11:15 am
  Kids had fun!! Our results, great idea that gets the kids involved in blowing the bubbles!
- - MrsA said
  - 22 Mar 2019
    8:16 am
Oh this sounds fun. I don’t trust my 2 with the straw yet though, I guarantee they will drink it by accident.