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How to Make Kids’ Bubbles

This is the easiest homemade bubbles solution. This bubbles recipe uses just two common household ingredients you already have at home, and we’ve added essential oils for sensory play, but this parts optional. Here’s how to Make Kids Bubbles.

Ingredients:

30 drops of essential oils

2-1/2 cups water

1/2 cup light corn syrup

1/2 cup dish soap

boy with cap playing with homemade bubbles

How to Make Kids’ Bubbles

In a microwavable bowl, combine water and cornsyrup and microwave on high for 4 minutes.

Add Dish Soap and Essential Oil and stir until combined.

Divide mixture into cups.

Using a pipe cleaner, make a wand, or recycle a bubble wand from store-bougth bubbles.

How to Make a Pipe Cleaner Bubble Wand

To make a wand for bubbles using pipe cleaners, leave a section straight and on one end, create a circle shape by bending the pipe cleaner.
Dip the pipe cleaner wand in the bubble mixture and gently blow to create bubbles.
How to Make Kids' Bubbles

How to Make Kids' Bubbles

This is the easiest homemade bubbles solution. This bubbles recipe uses just two common household ingredients you already have at home, and we've added essential oils for sensory play, but this parts optional. Here's how to Make Kids Bubbles.

Materials

Tools

  • 30 drops of essential oils
  • 2-1/2 cups water
  • 1/2 cup light corn syrup
  • 1/2 cup dish soap

Instructions

  1. In a microwavable bowl, combine water and cornsyrup and microwave on high for 4 minutes.
  2. Add Dish Soap and Essential Oil and stir until combined.
  3. Divide mixture into cups.
  4. Using a pipe cleaner, make a wand, or recycle a bubble wand from store-bougth bubbles.

Notes

How to Make a Pipe Cleaner Bubble Wand

To make a wand for bubbles using pipe cleaners, leave a section straight and on one end, create a circle shape by bending the pipe cleaner.

Dip the pipe cleaner wand in the bubble mixture and gently blow to create bubbles.

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About Julee Morrison

Julee Morrison is an author and writer with over 35 years of experience in parenting and family recipes. She’s the author of four cookbooks: The Instant Pot College Cookbook, The How-To Cookbook for Teens, The Complete Cookbook for Teens, and The Complete College Cookbook.Available on Amazon,

Her work has appeared in The LA Times, Disney’s Family Fun Magazine, Bon Appétit, Weight Watchers Magazine, All You, Scholastic Parent & Child, and more.

Her article "My Toddler Stood on Elvis' Grave and Scaled Over Boulders to Get to a Dinosaur" appeared on AP News, and her parenting piece “The Sly Way I Cured My Child's Lying Habit” was featured on PopSugar.

Outside of writing, Julee enjoys baking, reading, collecting crystals, and spending time with her family. You can find more of her work at Mommy’s Memorandum.

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