SOCK BUBBLE SNAKES
There's lots of bubble snakes in the Misfit Sock Forest. This is a really
fun experiement. Here's what you'll need:
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An empty plastic water bottle from your recycling bin
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Duck Tape
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A Misfit Sock
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Dish Soap (Dawn)
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Food Coloring
STRONG BUBBLE INGREDIENTS
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The single most important part is the water. Good quality water that doesn't contain high levels of iron or minerals is the best. Distilled water is highly recommended.
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Glycerin gives the bubble extra strength. You can also substitute Karo syrup for glycerin. Note: Perfectly good bubbles can be made without adding glycerin, but adding glycerin keeps the water from evaporating and makes the bubbles much stronger and longer lasting.
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Dawn® dish soap just seems to work the best for homemade bubble solutions.
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Let the bubble solution sit open to the air and undisturbed for 24 hours in advance of your bubble party. The bonds in the bubble solution will strengthen.
Start by cutting the bottom of the water bottle off. Next slide the sock over the bottom of the bottle. You can use colorful duct tape to secure the sock, but you could use a rubber band as well.
Pour some dish soap into a shallow container with a little bit of water and gently mix. Dip the sock covered bubble blower into the solution and gently blow.
You can drop some food coloring to the end of the sock for colored bubbles.
The snakes will love the Misfit Sock Forest.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Bubbles form because of the surface tension of water. Hydrogen atoms in one water molecule are attracted to oxygen atoms in other water molecules. They like each other so much, they cling together. So why are bubbles round? The physicists will tell you that bubbles enclose the maximum volume of air in the minimum amount of bubble solution, so that's why they are always round.
When you blow air through your Bubble Snake maker, you are creating hundreds of tiny bubbles. As the air wiggles through the fabric, bubbles are continuously being made. The bubbles attach to each other when they come out of the fabric. It's all thanks to the same hydrogen bonds that make bubbles possible!
