1. MATERIAL
Materials Science Fair
Two liter bottle
Dry ice
(ask the front desk at your local grocers)
Bubbles are cool, but bubbles
Heavy duty glove filled with fog are even cooler.
Funnel
Strip of cotton fabric Just imagine the cool factor going
Rubber tubing
Dish soap
up ten fold if you could bounce BOO BUBBLES
Utility blade (box cutter) and play with these bubbles. Boo
Small plastic portion cups (2 oz works
best)
Bubbles are what you get when
Towel you fill a bubble with a carbon
Bubble gloves
Safety glasses dioxide cloud using a cloud
Adult supervision bubble generator that we'll show
you how to make! But we saved
the best for last because you’ll
also learn how to roll and bounce
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the bubbles in your hands. It’s the
combination of science and
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performance art!
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2. HOW DOSE IT WORK
• Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide.
When you drop pieces of dry ice into
water, you get a wicked-cool
combination of carbon dioxide gas and Steve Spangler combined the
water vapor that bubbles out of the idea of filling bubbles with dry
ice fog with his Bouncing
water. The creation of gas inside the two Bubble activity to create a
liter bottle quickly becomes too much Bouncing Boo Bubble. While
volume for the two liter bottle to contain blowing bubbles indoors, you
Use a utility blade (like a box cutter) to carefully cut the top and the dry ice smoke flows over. By might have noticed the
off of the two liter bottle. Make sure the the hole in the top capping the two liter bottle with a occasional bubble that fell to the
of the two liter bottle is not larger than the funnel you'll be
using. funnel, the smoke builds pressure as it is carpet but didn’t pop. Regular
Attach a length of rubber tubing to the narrow end of the bubbles burst when they come
funnel by squeezing the funnel into the tubing.
forced into a more confined area. This in contact with just about
Use the utility blade to cut a hole in the bottom of a small pressure pushes the smoke through the anything. Why? A bubble’s
plastic portion cup just large enough to fit the rubber tubing.
Slide the end of the rubber tubing (not attached to the tube, creating a flow of smoke that fills worst enemies are oil and
funnel) into the hole in the portion cup. the bubbles. dirt. Boo Bubbles will
Mix up a batch of your favorite bubble solution in a cup that
is large enough to fit your portion cup. (View our recipe
here.)
bounce off of a surface if it
Fill 1/6 of the two liter bottle with warm water and add in a is free of oil or dirt
few pieces of dry ice.
Place the funnel over the hole in the two liter bottle.
particles that would
Awesome! The smoke comes pouring out of the tube! If you normally break down the
adjust how much of the hole is covered by the funnel, you'll
see a change in the pressure of the smoke coming from the soap film. They break
tubing. Once yo've figured out a comfortable pressure, when they hit the ground,
remove the funnel.
Dunk the portion cup into the bubble solution and cover the but they don't break if they
top of the bottle with the funnel and watch what happens! land on a softer fabric like
When the bubble reaches the perfect size, gently shake it off
of the portion cup and it will quickly fall to the ground (it’s gloves or a towel.
heavier than a normal bubble because the bubble is filled
with carbon dioxide gas and water vapor).
When the bubble hits the ground, it bursts and th e cloud of
fog erupts from the bubble. Very cool.
Want your Boo Bubbles to last? Shake them onto a
towel!