Bubbles dabble dabble bubble do! Beautiful, colourful, popping floating bubbles in the air. What can make children happier than bubbles? Of course, bubbles in number two after food. Food always comes first. Back to bubbles. Playing with bubbles is not actually only playing. Let children believe that they are only playing, but you are bringing them outdoors to learn how to do STEM activities for preschoolers with bubbles. Yes, this is our remarkable list of STEM activities that involves bubbles.
Bring the children out, they will never say no to bubbles!
1- Geometry Bubble Wands
Do you know you can many different shapes of bubble wands with pipe cleaners? Yes, that little bendable tiny thing can do wonders with bubbles. All we need are some pipe cleaners and some bubble solution. Learn about shapes and bend those pipe cleaners into shapes that the children have learned.
Amazing things will happen when you blow bubbles from the shaped wands. Do you think star-shaped wands will produce star-shaped bubbles? Try and see. (The answer is no because there is an equal pressure around the bubbles from your wands) Snap photos of your children’s reactions and tag us in our social media.
2- Tensile Bubbles
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Another challenging and fun STEM activities for preschoolers are tensile bubbles! Tensile bubbles are actually making amazing square-shaped bubbles with straws. This activity has a WOW factor on it! Build a 3D-shaped square and formed a bubble with the model. Similar to the first activity, this activity also needs pipe cleaners, bubble solutions, and straws.
Start with basic shapes such as triangles and then giant squares. Have fun building the geometry shapes and playing with bubbles afterward. With tensile bubbles, your children can make any shapes of bubbles if they know how to build the 3D models of the shapes.
3- Bouncing Bubbles
Do you know there is a way to make the bubbles not popping when your children touch them? Isn’t that interesting? They will get excited because all these times, bubbles keep bursting when they touch them. But you need a wool glove and sugar solution, and of course, bubble solution. Mix the sugar solution with the bubble solution and stir it well. After that, put on your children’s glove, blow a bubble and bounce it!
This is one of the STEM activities that are simple but have a thousand times fun for children, especially preschoolers! Do you know that ALFA and Friends conducted this activity in one of the STEM Camp, the Secret Agent? To get the box, contact us!
4- Dry Ice Bubble
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Can you ignite the love to learn with bubbles? Yes, of course, you can! Especially with the dry ice bubble experiment, one of the STEM activities for preschoolers. It is super easy to do this STEM activity and will amaze your children as the result of the experiment is what the children desired!
What you will need are:
- Dry ice
- Warm Water
- Tall container
- Food colouring
- Dishwashing Liquid
Mix all of these in the tall container and look what will happen! The smokes from the dry ice are trapped in the bubbles and looks like your children produce clouds from the container. To help the clouds escape, sometimes the bubbles will pop on their own or they will need helping hands!
The dry ice bubble experiment is exciting however the are some precautions that parents need to be aware of. The first one is not to handle the dry ice with bare hands, make sure you have tongs in your kitchen and the second one, do not put the dry ice in your freezer! Do not do this and you and your children will have a blast in doing STEM activities for preschoolers.
5- Frozen Bubble
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To do this STEM activity for preschoolers with your children, you will need to empty your freezer. You need to have the same solution as we do in bouncing bubbles activity, but you will need a plate and a refrigerator or freezer.
Blow a bubble on the plate and slowly put it in the freezer. Calculate how many seconds are needed for the bubble to melt after your children take the bubble out from the freezer. Calculate the time when you put it in the freezer too! Learning about bubbles and time are never exciting like this.
Do you know why the bubble freezes so quickly? Because the wall of the bubble is thin, so less time needed for it to be frozen. Observe the bubble when it pops, is it still colourful as normal bubbles?
