Fun Outdoor Activity - Bubble Print Paintings

Blowing bubbles to make bubble art is a great way to discuss colours, paintings and artwork. You can read some interesting facts about bubbles and colours here.

Interesting facts about paintings:

  • People have been painting for as long as 40,000 years.
  • Early cave paintings were drawn with red or yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide, and charcoal. Not bubbles :)
  • Prehistoric artists may have painted animals to "catch" their soul or spirit to hunt them more easily.
  • The most expensive painting is Salvator Mundy by Leonardo da Vinci sold in 2017 for $ 450,3 million. (Should I even mention that my kids, Einstein E and Power P, asked if they could sell their paintings for that much money?  Einstein E would like to sell his painting and buy a Tesla.)

Materials:

  • Bubble prints
  • Scissors
  • Piece of cardboard 
  • Paint and glue

Step 1.

Have some fun blowing bubbles and making prints in different colours. How to make them? Click here.
Step 2.

Prepare your "canvas". We cut out a piece of old cardboard for the base and four strips for the frame.

Don't forget to make a hanger.

Step 3. 

Cut out different shapes and glue them on a piece of cardboard. This is an ideal opportunity to introduce or revise some geometry vocabulary - circle, pentagon, parallelogram, trapeze... 
Step 4.

Cut out, paint, and glue the frame.
Step 5. 

Exhibit and make your kids feel proud :)