Bubblemania!
We’ll read books about baths & soap, then have soap bubble fun. Families with children of different ages are welcome to come all together to one program
Display books about baths and bubbles (http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/05/pre-school-storytimebathtime.html)
Ages 3-6:
Read: Pigeon Needs a Bath by Mo Willems
Sing: “Take Me Out Of the Bathtub” title song from the book by Alan Katz
Read: Bubbles Float, Bubbles Pop by Mark Weakland (530.42 WEA)
Read: Bubble, Bubble by Mercer Mayer
Go outside for bubble Play.
Ages 6-10:
Open with Reader’s Theater: No Bath Tonight by Jane Yolen (https://drive.google.com/a/sclibnj.org/file/d/0B8nQQQqLQzjTZU9Zc0F5ZFZfUjg/view?usp=sharing)
Read: Casey in the Bath by Cynthia DeFelice
Sing: “Take Me Out Of the Bathtub” title song from the book by Alan Katz
Read: Bubbles Float, Bubbles Pop by Mark Weakland (530.42 WEA)
(tried big book Bubble Trouble by Margaret Mahy – too long)
Outdoor stations with bubble wands – large commercial ones were fun as were shapes made out of pipe cleaners (hearts, diamonds, pyramids, cubes) . Tried some of the bubble blowers from Soap Science by J.L.Bell but many didn’t work with our bubble solution. The Zubrowski (two straws with string run through and tied to make a rectangle) worked best when the string length between the straws was less than 6”. Test solution and wands first next time.
Note: bubble solution from Dollar Store was useless – instead made up solution with dishwashing soap, water, and glycerin (could probably use corn syrup instead of glycerin , was afraid to use that over carpets but did all bubble play outside on the sidewalk beside the meeting rooms.)
Handout: Bubbles – from the Art and Science of Bubbles, Chicago Children’s Museum
Could also do this a bubble art – blow paint with straws – but we had done something very similar for the 4th of July.
BWL 8/16
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