# Homemade Bubble Recipes and Play Ideas > A summer roundup of homemade bubble recipes, bubble art, bubble play and DIY bubble wands from fellow bloggers. Get those wands ready and turn your backyard into a giant bubble zone. - URL: https://www.funlittles.com/homemade-bubbles-recipes-and-play-ideas/ - Ages: 2+ · Difficulty: easy · Mess: medium - Time: prep none, activity varies - Works for: one-on-one, small group, whole class - Skills: sensory-exploration, science, art, gross-motor - Cautions: corn, food-dye, ingestion-risk ## Safety - Bubble snakes: young kids may sip instead of blow. A reader's 2-year-old did exactly that, so supervise closely and practice blowing out first. - Bubble solution is soap, not food. Keep it away from mouths and eyes, and rinse with water if it gets in eyes. - Soapy ground and floors get slippery. Play outdoors or on a towel or tray. - Always supervise water and bubble play with babies and toddlers. ## Ideas - **Simple homemade bubble solution**: A basic homemade bubble solution recipe to start with. - **Giant bubbles recipe**: A recipe for those GIANT bubbles. - **Bouncing bubbles**: Bubbles that bounce instead of popping. - **Bubble recipe using corn syrup**: A homemade bubble solution made with corn syrup. - **Bubble recipe using gelatin**: Use gelatin in place of the corn syrup. - **Tear-free bubbles**: A homemade bubble solution meant to be gentler on eyes. - **Kool-Aid bubbles**: Colored bubbles made with Kool-Aid. - **Bubble painting**: Lay paper over a tray of colored bubbles to print the bubble pattern. - **Bubble homemade cards**: Make homemade cards with bubble prints. - **Bubble-painted shapes**: Cut-out shapes, like these fish, decorated with pink and blue bubble prints. - **Rainbow bubbles**: A bin of rainbow-colored bubble foam for hands-on play. - **Bubble snakes**: Blow through a bottle to make a long snake of tiny bubbles. - **Rainbow bubble snakes**: Add color to the bubble snake blower for rainbow snakes. - **Bubbles baby play**: Easy soap foam sensory play for babies and toddlers. - **Bubbles sensory bin**: A tub full of bubbles for sensory play. - **Bubbles in a cup**: A simple trick for blowing bubbles using a cup. - **Glowing bubbles**: DIY glow-in-the-dark bubbles. - **Wand from straws and string**: A giant bubble wand made from straws and string. - **Wand from dowels and hooks**: A DIY giant bubble wand made with dowels and hooks. - **Wands from beverage rings**: Use the plastic rings from beverage packs as bubble wands. - **Berry basket wand**: Blow bubbles through an empty berry basket. - **Wand from a bunch of straws**: Bundle straws together to blow lots of tiny bubbles. - **Kitchen tools as wands**: Invent your own bubble wands from kitchen tools. - **Tips for better soap bubbles**: Tips for making better soap bubbles. - **Experimenting with bubble snakes**: Tips for experimenting with bubble snakes, blown from a bottle into a big foamy pile. - **More bubble snake proof**: More evidence that bubble snakes work and are not just something you saw on Pinterest. ## Tips - Get those wands ready and turn your backyard into a giant bubble zone. - That giant bubbles post is priceless! - Use plenty of dye for bubble snakes. One family didn't use enough and their snakes came out plain. Kids from 2 to 10 still loved it. (from readers) - Watch toddlers with bubble snakes. One 2-year-old sipped instead of blew. (from readers) ## The original post by TurkeyMom (2013) Homemade bubbles recipes Very warm weather is going to be upon us pretty soon. Let's get ready with all our summer staples starting with bubbles. Here I have collected a few ways you can have fun with dish soap and water. Get those wands ready and turn your backyard into a giant bubble zone. You will find recipes for homemade bubbles and some cool play ideas. First things first, recipes for making homemade bubbles **Recipes** **Simple homemade bubble solution** **Recipe for those [GIANT bubbles](https://happyhooligans.ca/homemade-giant-bubbles/)** [](https://happyhooligans.ca/homemade-giant-bubbles/) **Bouncing Bubbles** **Recipe using corn syrup** **Recipe using gelatin : Use gelatin in the place of corn syrup** **Tear Free bubbles** **[Kool Aid Bubbles](http://www.growingajeweledrose.com/2013/02/kool-aid.html)** **Art** **[Bubble Painting](https://nurturestore.co.uk/im-forever-blowing-bubbles)** [](https://nurturestore.co.uk/im-forever-blowing-bubbles) **Bubbles homemade cards** **Play** **Rainbow Bubbles** **Bubble Snakes** **[Rainbow Bubble Snakes](http://www.housingaforest.com/rainbow-bubble-snakes/)** [](http://www.housingaforest.com/rainbow-bubble-snakes/) **B[ubbles baby play](http://www.funathomewithkids.com/2013/03/super-easy-sensory-play-soap-foam.html)** [](http://www.funathomewithkids.com/2013/03/super-easy-sensory-play-soap-foam.html) **[Bubbles sensory bin](https://picklebums.com/sensory-play-a-tub-of-bubbles/)** **[Bubbles in a cup](http://www.freshlyplanted.com/2013/04/simple-trick-for-blowing-bubbles.html?m=1)** **Glowing Bubbles** **DIY Bubble Wands** **Using straws and strings** **[Using dowels and hooks](http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/blog/2011/07/diy-giant-bubble-wand.html)** **Using the rings from beverages** **Berry Baskets : blow through an empty basket** **[Using just a bunch of straws](http://spoonful.com/crafts/tiny-bubbles)** **[Kitchen tools as wands](https://www.icanteachmychild.com/invent-your-own-bubble-wands-from/)** **Tips** **Tips for making better soap bubbles** **Tips for experimenting with bubble snakes** and more evidence that **bubble snakes work** and they are not something you saw on Pinterest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~