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Bubble Painting Activity for Kids
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Painting with bubbles is a fun alternative to watercolor painting that kids adore. They’ll love creating imaginative bubble art with this colorful craft! Plus it’s super easy to set up!
Kids love bubbles, but sometimes it gets tiring blowing them all the time. I decided to try some bubble activities with my kids and our favorite quickly became bubble painting.
It was so much fun and my kids loved making bubble art! I enjoyed it too because it was less messy than regular watercolor paints. Just make sure you don’t use too much food coloring or the
Painting with bubbles is super easy too and will keep your kids occupied for a long time. I’ll show you how to paint with bubbles here.
Bubble Art Supplies
What do you need for bubble painting?
- colored bubbles* (we used this easy recipe with dish soap, corn syrup, water, and food coloring)
- plastic cups or containers for different colors
- straws
- paper or card stock (preferred)
- painters tape, optional
*If you don’t want to make your own bubbles, you can add a couple drops of food color to a container of storebought bubbles
, cap, and shake well. You’ll need a separate container for each color.
How to Paint with Bubbles
Mix your colored bubble mixture using different colors and pour each into a container.
I put out a popsicle mold set to hold our colored bubbles. This kept colors separate, while still providing a tall enough slot for our straws to stay put! I’m really glad we used it, as it worked really well. If you don’t have one, you can use plastic cups, tupperware containers, dixie cups, mason jars, etc.
Just a quick note: small children may want to drink the bubbles because that’s kinda what you do with straws, so you will want to supervise this bubble painting activity with really young children. Though in my experience, once they try it, they don’t again because homemade bubble solution doesn’t taste very good!
Use paper or (if available), card stock is a great option because it holds up better under the liquid than regular paper.
One fun way to add more creativity to this bubble art is to use painters tape to map out designs. We chose a cross as an easy design.
Make sure you press the tape down firmly, or the bubbles will sneak in under your tape.
We like to do bubble painting with straws because it’s such a fun easy way to blow the bubbles and provides better control than regular bubble wands.
Have your children dip the end of the straw into the bubble solution.
Then aim the straw toward the paper and blow!
What Is Bubble Painting?
Bubble painting is a great craft for kids that uses a few basic art supplies and kitchen products. The paint + bubbles mixture popping onto the paper make fun patterns and splatters. The kids can use their imaginations to create little critters or monsters from their creations, which is an added bonus to all the fun!
Bubble Painting Craft Supplies
Here’s a list of supplies I used for this fun paint project:
- Small Cups
- Paint – I used craft paint, but tempera paint or whatever paint you have laying around will do the trick!
- Soap – I used the dish soap from under my kitchen sink, but you could use any soap or bubble solution you have.
- Water
- Spoon or Craft Stick- This is to stir and mix paint mixtures in the cups.
- Paper – I used small poster board, but you could use canvas, cardstock, or construction paper.
- Straws
- Plastic Table Cloth/ Old Sheet- You’ll definitely want something to protect your surface!
- Embellishments – Markers, glue, googly eyes, pom poms, etc.
How To Make Bubble Solution
- Add a squirt of paint, a squirt of soap, and 1/4 cup of water to a small plastic cup. Mix with a spoon or popsicle stick until well combined.
- Repeat with all the other colors in separate cups.
