bubble painting

following the lead of meg from whatever, i compiled a list of weekly craft projects to do with the kids this summer. yes, we can do them all year around, but some things are just more fun outside...so i've planned mostly messy projects.

our first project was bubble painting

i mixed up some home made bubble solution, and colored it with food coloring,

but it's probably best to use powdered tempera paint. i just didn't have any.
 

the girls used their bubble wands to blow bubbles directly onto the paper

the object is to let the bubble pop on the paper, 

but when that wasn't working,

i opted for simplicity and just let them do their thing!

they did get a few good pops in!

(i think my bubble solution was partly to blame--dawn is the best and i only had ajax!)

after they dried, we turned them into birthday cards for papa.

it was a lot of fun!