homemade bubbles!

Our third pinterest project was Homemade Bubbles. There are all sorts of recipes out there, but I used my mom's tried and true recipe with Glycerin, found in our church cookbook. She used to make this stuff when she taught preschool. I had hoped to make enough to fill a mini pool, but it turns out Glycerin is expensive, so I filled a big flat rubbermaid instead.

I doubled the recipe, and a few days ago tried making the bubble wands in this video and they are amazing. I used chop sticks, twine and a washer and made huge bubbles. Totally recommend making the big wands. And mom brought a crate, which made for awesome bubble caterpillars. You can't go wrong with bulk bubbles on a beautiful day!

Homemade Bubbles
3/4 cup Dawn Dish Soap
2 quarts water
1/4 cup Glycerin (I found mine in the Cub Foods Pharmacy. Call before you go...it was their last bottles and they said they don't always carry it. My Walgreens did not carry it. Drug stores and Pharmacy's seem to be the best bet.)

Mix Glycerin and Dawn together gently. Slowly add the water...you do not want the mixture to foam! Slow and steady is the key. Mom uses little plastic berry boxes as bubble wands, or cuts a circle out of cool whip/tupper ware lids. Or again, the string and sticks diy wand was pretty awesome too!

Have fun!