Our local playdate group was planning to do colored bubbles at a recent gathering. Raegan loves bubbles, so I hated we missed it. Since we couldn’t make it, I decided that we could do colored bubbles at home. A quick Google search came up with the magic formula for colored bubbles:

Bubble solution
powdered tempera paint

Voila! That’s it. So, I bought some bubbles and couldn’t find powdered tempera paint. I just bought the regular kind and hoped that it would work, too. I first place the bubble solution in a jar and then added some paint:

I then stirred like crazy because the paint just didn’t want to mix in with the bubble solution. The next day we headed out to test it. Raegan, of course, took charge of it and promptly spilled it on the ground. This was taken right before the incident:

So, I went back inside and do it again. This time I added more paint since I was rushing to get it done. I just squeezed the paint bottle over the solution. Probably about a teaspoon or more of paint plopped into the jar. I then put the lid on the jar and shook it vigorously for a few seconds. The color was a darker red and mixed a lot better.

Now it was time for the test. I decided to use Raegan’s bubble blowing machine so I could get some pictures of the bubbles. They had a light tint to them. You might can see the red drop of paint that is at the bottom of the bubble. This has me thinking that maybe the powder paint is a better way to go:

I will probably try the colored bubbles experiment again when I find the powder tempera paint, which might be a craft store purchase.