Make Bubble Kites With Your Child
If you’re looking for simple science experiments and creative projects for your child, you can’t go wrong with anything from Sergei Urban, aka TheDadLab . The experimental father began posting videos of activities he would do with his two young sons, and the parents continued to want more. Now his videos, which include instructions onhatching dinosaur ice eggs ,making a lava lamp, andassembling an air cannon, have received nearly 60 million views. Urban’s new book, Dad ‘s Lab: 50 Amazing Science Projects for Parents and Children , is coming out today, and he shares one of his most popular experiments with us: Bubble Snakes. Here’s how to do them with your kids.
What you need:
- A sock (that won’t hurt!)
- A transparent plastic bottle, half a liter in size.
- A bowl of water
- Dishwashing liquid
- Craft knife
How long will it take: 15 minutes
How to do it:
1. Cut off the bottom of the bottle with a knife.
2. Wrap the open end of the bottle around the sock.
3. Gently mix some good dish soap with the water (don’t let it get too foamy).
4. Dip the toe of the bottle into the liquid, then blow out the neck. The bubble snake will pop out of the sock.
What’s happening?
You did the usual bubble blowing, but with many tiny hoops instead of the usual one big one. All the loops of the thread in the sock act as hoops holding the soapy film from which the bubble can be inflated. Foam is simply a light, fluffy mass of these tiny bubbles bonded together.
This experiment is adapted from TheDadLab by agreement with TarcherPerigee, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, A Penguin Random House Company. Copyright © 2019, Sergey Urban.