![]() ![]() Here are the crazy simple directions- this will take a few dollars and about 10 minutes time: So I do suggest making these yourself if you can- it will be cheaper and most likely work better anyway. Both of the brands we bought were complete junk and wound up getting tossed out. My 6 year old absolutely loves bubbles so several months ago I saw premade bubble wands at the craft stores and purchased them for about $4 or so as a birthday gift. The person manning the booth was sweet enough to walk me through the process of making these bubble wands and I can assure you it is so easy and so cheap! So I have always just grabbed the bubble wands from the Dollar Store and called it a day.īut we recently went to an outdoor festival and spotted a booth with a bucket and giant bubbles. □ I have seen tutorials for giant bubbles in the past that just seemed too hard to bother with or required buying wading pools and hoola hoops and other things I simply don’t want to buy and have cluttering up the house. You see my brain simply can’t handle complicated when it comes to homemade projects. But to be honest when it comes to DIY or crafts if something seems overwhelmingly complicated or expensive- my eyes roll back into my head and my brain hits the mute button. My girls squealed with delight when they got big, bouncy bubbles and when they were able to catch a bubble for a few seconds before it burst - not at all like the usual mixtures!īut I will warn … these are best blown outside, where both the soap and corn syrup will do less damage from any residue left behind any bubble “pops!” that occurred on patio furniture I wiped off with a damp rag just to be safe.This giant bubble wand is something I have oohed and aahed over many times in the past. You can make HUGE bubbles this way!Īs you can see from the pictures, we had a blast. The straws become your handles and you dip the string into your bubble tray (a shallow tray or pan works well). ![]() □Īnd while we didn’t do it this time, as a kid I was taught to make your own wand by lacing string or yarn through two straws, then tying off the string once laced through. Surprisingly, the metallic ones worked best since the fuzzy ones absorbed a LOT of the solution and wasted a lot of it by dripping off. We used both the standard fuzzy pipe cleaners and the ones with the more metallic look and feel. Just mold the pipe cleaner around the cookie cutter and twist it off with the remaining pipe cleaner (excess becomes the handle). After my initial eye-roll about the wands being MIA, I decided they could make their own wands instead and it really worked out great - all done with items you’re likely to have on hand already.įor the wands, all you need are some pipe cleaners and cookie cutters in basic shapes (we used a star and a heart since they were easy to mold). I hadn’t planned on making our own wands till my oldest mentioned she couldn’t find their usual stash of plastic wands of every size and shape. The first two batches worked okay for little bubbles, but not to make the fun kind that bounces off blades of grass instead of being popped by them nearly instantly. I’ll be honest … I tried a couple of bubble recipes before settling on this one, which was my third different batch. This post solves both those problems: Make your own bubble solution AND your own bubble wands! Problem solved my friends! ![]() And how many times do those teeny-tiny wands go missing, leaving a bubble-blower without their essential tool? It happens … comes with the fragile bubble territory. Accidents happen, bubble machines go haywire, and bottles get tipped. But the part of bubble-blowing that’s not great is how quickly one flies through the bubble solution. ![]()
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