Bubbles

It's fun to play with bubbles! You can do much more with bubbles than simply blow a few here and there. Here's a list of fun science projects and experiments involving bubbles.

Learn about the science behind bubbles. Find out what bubbles are and how they behave.

Save some pennies and make this bubble mix yourself! Most drugstores and pharmacies carry glycerine.

This is a twist on the classic baking soda volcano, where you use the ingredients to make squirt-able fountains of foam.

Okay, it's the kitchen equivalent of a volcano, not a real one. The 'eruption' is cool all the same! It's also more or less non-toxic, which adds to its appeal.

This science fair project examines whether bubbles last the same length of time in hot temperatures as they do in cool temperatures.

Bubble prints are like fingerprints, except made with bubbles. You can make bubble prints and learn about how bubbles are shaped and how pigments combine to make different colors.

Use dry ice to carbonate fruit. The fruit will be filled with tingly carbon dioxide bubbles, like a soda. The fizzy fruit is great to eat on its own or it can be used in recipes.

Make brightly colored pink and blue soap bubbles that won't stain clothing or surfaces.

The giant bubble you can make using dry ice and bubble solution sort of resembles a crystal ball. This is an easy and spectacular science project.

You can use sublimating dry ice to produce carbon dioxide gas to fill bubbles. A small piece of dry ice will produce cloudy bubbles for a long time. Here's what you do.

Use your chemistry to make a fizzy, scented bath bomb. Make them for yourself or give them as gifts!

Make a non-toxic fizzy Mad Scientist potion using ingredients from your kitchen. The potion looks evil, but it is safe enough to drink.

Use dry ice to freeze bubbles solid so that you can pick them up and examine them closely. You can use this project to demonstrate several scientific principles, such as density, interference, semipermeability, and diffusion.

It's easy to make a mentos and soda eruption glow. All you need to do is use tonic water or diet tonic water instead of the usual diet soda and shine a black light on the fountain.

Bubbles are already awesome, but glowing bubbles are even better. It is easy and safe to make bubbles glow, plus it doesn't require any hard-to-find materials. Here is what you do.

Microwave a bar of Ivory soap and watch it expand to over six times its original size. The foam trick is good clean fun, plus it can be used to demonstrate Charles' Law, physical change, and foam formation.

The elephant toothpaste demo produces a growing column of foam that looks like what you would get if an elephant squashed a giant tube of toothpaste. Here's a kid-friendly version of this classic chemistry demonstration.

The lemon fizz project is a fun bubbly science project using kitchen ingredients that’s ideal for kids to try.

Candies and diet soda together can make a chemical 'volcano' with an eruption several feet high. If the normal baking soda volcano is too tame for you, give this project a try.

Here's how to make a safe and easy chemical volcano using two common inexpensive household ingredients.

This is a collection of pictures of bubbles, including soap bubbles, dry ice bubbles, and bubble prints.

Learn what antibubbles are and how to observe antibubbles and make them yourself.

Do you want to foam at the mouth, without having rabies or being poisoned? You can perform a safe chemical reaction that makes you foam at the mouth.