make soap bubbles
Requires:
soap-bubble solution and, Ideally, a humid day with an
overcast sky
"Humidity helps keep the bubbles from popping, and bubbles
are more colorful In less direct light," says Keith Michael
Johnson, a bubble artist In Warwick,
Rhode Island, who can create bubbles that are larger than a
small car.
Start with a bowl of bubble solution:
I cup water, 2 tablespoons liquid detergent, I tablespoon
glycerin (available at drugstores), and Yo teaspoon sugar.
Make an OK sign with your fingers and dip them Into the
bubble solution, fully submerging the O. (Moms, don't
wince.
Have you ever known kids not to get bubble Juice all over
their hands, even with a wand?)
- Blow gently on the soap-film spread across the O.
- Want an even bigger bubble? "Use both hands, con-necting thumb to thumb and pointer finger to pointer finger, and hold that position until you've created and released a bubble," Johnson says.