Clifford Bubble Science

Cesca just turned 3 years old and her aunt gave her this nifty Clifford Bubble Science kit! These kits are made by The Young Scientists Club, which is best known for their Magic School Bus kits. The new Clifford sets are for the 3-5 year old crew.

In this kit there were a couple bottles of bubbles, a plastic tray, a tiny measuring cup, some straws, pipe cleaners, a rubber band, a bubble wand, a tiny funnel, and a little piece of aluminum foil. Okay, so nothing I can't normally find in my house. Most important to me was the little booklet of experiments to remind me what exactly you're supposed to do with bubbles!

Cesca loved the one where you use the aluminum foil as a boat and make it shoot across the water by touching the surface with a bit of soap! We had to dump the water for fresh and perform that one about ten times!

She also loved blowing bubbles in the water with a straw, then putting the end of the straw in a single bubble to further inflate it.

When we got to things that actually had us blowing free-floating bubbles (like with a bubble wand) the kit was a total bust. It finally occurred to me to ditch the bubble solution in the kit and use some of the Gazillion Bubbles solution that we had on hand and suddenly everything worked! Hooray for high quality bubble solution!