Blowing Bubbles

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Miss Nancy, and I'm an elementary school teacher here in Tampa, Florida, and the mother of three. And today, we're going to learn how to blow bubbles. Now, it might sound kind of easy, but it isn't always. When kids are really little, sometimes they have trouble blowing bubbles. Sometimes they blow too hard. Can you show me how you blow too hard? Or sometimes too soft. Or too hard. So we're going to learn about just the right way to do it. Like this. Exactly. Now, first of all, you can go out to the store and buy bubbles, but really, all it is is dish-washing liquid and water. So just getting a bowl like this and adding cup...or a cap full of dish-washing liquid and some water and stirring it up really well, that'll give you pretty much the same bubbles we get in the store. You can even refill the bubbles that you get in the store. It'll save you a lot of money. You could also make wants in a pinch out of pipe cleaners. Let's show you how to do that. Take a pipe cleaner... Like this. Yeah, exactly. The whole point is just to make sure you have a complete loop. I'm going to make it. You're going to make it? Okay. To make sure you have a complete loop. Here, you can... If you have a break in it. You can...you can use this one. Thank you. I'll use this one. If you have a break anywhere in it -- if it doesn't completely close or if you don't tie it all the way, you're not going to be able to get a firm grip on those bubbles. So just make sure it goes all the way through. Can you... This also gives the kids a chance to make their own design. They can choose a different color. They can decorate the want, whatever pleases them. Then you dip it into your liquid. Get it really saturated, really wet. And you'll know that it's wet enough when you can see the shine when you hold it up to the light. Do you see the shine? That means that there's soap in there. And you want to blow lightly. And remember always to blow away from other's eyes. Blow lightly. Whoops. We didn't get enough soap on there. Let's try it again. Blow lightly. Oh, that's a big one. That was a big one. Lightly and slowly because if you blow too fast, it'll pop. Just like that. And if you blow too slow -- show me too slow -- you won't actually get a bubble. Whoops. Let's try it again. I keep talking, huh? I did it. And that is -- that's on you -- how you blow bubbles, usually away from people's faces. But that is how you blow bubbles."