Janna Marcilla on tue 1 nov 05
I found the thread about making bubble wands from clay and was thinking
about making some for my grandchildren and their friends. Can you buy
commercial bubble solution bottles and use them or do you have to make
your own solution and buy special bottles? Or do you shape the wand as an
oval and not a circle? I'm thinking about the size of the wands. If the
coil is 1/2 inch wide to start with and you smash it then we're talking
almost an inch wide on each side not counting the hole in the middle. I
don't think the commercial bottles are wide enough to use. Do you have to
put the solution for bubbles in a bowl or something? Sorry to seem so
stupid, but I would hate to make wands they couldn't use easily. They are
very young, and I seem to be really slow on this dilemma.
If anyone has any experience with this item I would really appreciate some
feedback.
TIA
Janna
pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on tue 1 nov 05
Hi Janna,
While Janet's recent post does come-to-mind here a-plenty...
I will say that 'fired', Clay, "Bubble-Wands" DO sound like something that
will likely occasion disappointment in their frailty, especially given the
ways of children for whom they would be intended.
"Wire" bent-to-the-task...I think, would answer as well now as ever it has,
and, if you wanted, you could invent some entertaining Clay Handle maybe,
for the wire form to fit into...some simple robust-enough Handle, that
within reason, will accomidate falls to concrete and being thrown and so on,
as can, and will...happen...!
...cone 14 maybe, and high Alumina at that...
Or, maybe entertaining Clay containers FOR the Bubble-solution-liquid ? -
and keep the 'Bubble Wands' of some other combination of materials...
Best wishes...
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janna Marcilla"
> I found the thread about making bubble wands from clay and was thinking
> about making some for my grandchildren and their friends. Can you buy
> commercial bubble solution bottles and use them or do you have to make
> your own solution and buy special bottles? Or do you shape the wand as an
> oval and not a circle? I'm thinking about the size of the wands. If the
> coil is 1/2 inch wide to start with and you smash it then we're talking
> almost an inch wide on each side not counting the hole in the middle. I
> don't think the commercial bottles are wide enough to use. Do you have to
> put the solution for bubbles in a bowl or something? Sorry to seem so
> stupid, but I would hate to make wands they couldn't use easily. They are
> very young, and I seem to be really slow on this dilemma.
> If anyone has any experience with this item I would really appreciate some
> feedback.
>
> TIA
> Janna
Susan Nebeker on wed 2 nov 05
Janna,
When I make the bubble wands, the handle ends up being about 3/4 of an inch wide, after stamping.
The bubble solution is one that I make, with dish soap and glycerin.
I don't have the recipe, dangit- it's nowhere to be found and my memory is not serving me well these days. Google it, some kid's projects sites surely would have it.
When we were making these things, they served as kiln fillers, occupational therapy for my grandmother who was living with us and as inexpensive ($2.00) little objects at my spring sale for the kids.
As Phil notes in his post, they are rather fragile and wouldn't probably survive use by very young children. However, my kids and nieces and nephews have played with them over the last several years and most of them still survive.
Now that I'm a grammy, I probably wouldn't give the things as gifts, but will save them for the kiddies to play with as a treat when at my house. The four year old is definitely too young.
Just given as a gift to use unsupervised will definitely result in immediate breakage.
On the other hand, plastic bubble wands have a very short life as well- usually lost within a day or two!
What are ya gonna do? Kids!
Janna Marcilla wrote:
I found the thread about making bubble wands from clay and was thinking
about making some for my grandchildren and their friends. Sorry to seem so
stupid, but I would hate to make wands they couldn't use easily. They are
very young, and I seem to be really slow on this dilemma.
If anyone has any experience with this item I would really appreciate some
feedback.
TIA
Janna
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Janna Marcilla on wed 2 nov 05
Thanks Phil, maybe I should approach this from another angle like you
said. Thanks for the feedback!
Janna
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