What You Need:

# Water

# Granulated Sugar

#Pippette

#Dish Soap

What To Do :

# Fill a cup with about 9 oz of water.

# Add 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar to the water.

# Pour 2 tablespoons of dish soap into water and stir it up.

#Use scissors to cut off the end of the pipette bulb.

#Use your hand to wipe down a small section of countertop or table with the solution you’ve made.

#Dip the bulbed-end of the pipette into the solution and use the pipette to blow a bubble on the table.

#Dip the pipette back into the solution and place the bulb inside the first bubble. Blow a second bubble!
See how many bubbles you can blow up inside the others.

HOW DOES IT WORK

Bubbles form because of a combination of water’s hydrogen bonds and the oily film you can see shimmer in the light. The oily film you see is actually two separate layers of soap attached to, and surrounding, hydrogen-bonded water.

You may think we’re crazy asking you to add sugar to your bubble solution, but sugar is really great at making those bubbles last that extra bit longer. The addition of Imperial Sugar or Dixie Crystals works with the soap to create an extra strong bubble. In fact, you can almost feel it working! When you dip your fingers in the solution to apply a film to the countertop or table, you can feel how sticky and thick the solution feels. You know you’re creating an awesome bubble solution!

When you’re blowing a bubble inside of your first bubble, you probably noticed the larger, original bubble expanding. When you blow your second bubble, you are increasing the volume of air inside both bubbles! The additional volume causes the creation of the second bubble while simultaneously forcing the original bubble to expand, accommodating the second bubble’s volume. Thankfully, the hydrogen bonds of the water (and their soapy, sugary friends) are very elastic and allow for this increase in volume!