Bubble Girl (A walk in bubble adventure)

***ONLY DO WHAT YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH***

This is a spin on the BUBBLE BOY Post.  My girls love all things glow in the dark.  They have been asking to do GLOW AND SEEK  for a while now.  They can never make it up until dark... so I thought I would bring the dark to them.  AK and her son came over for the fun as well.  :-)

Materials used:

Black Tarp.  

(I used THIS, and folded it in half)

Duct Tape.  

Fan 

(I used THIS... but next time will use something with more power... it didn't inflate as much as I wanted it to)

Black light (optional)

After you have the tarp folded in half, stretch out a piece of duct tape the length of the tarp.  Place the duct tape on the ground and then put the tarp down over top... leaving enough room to fold the tape over and seal it.  AK and I did this together which made it much easier.  Next, seal the opposite side.  This leaves it open on one end.  It will look like a giant garbage bag.  Lastly, take a piece of duct tape and seal just the middle of the open end... leaving two holes.  One hole to walk in, and one hole for the fan.  After you have the fan in the hole, duct tape the tarp to the back of it to seal it.  Try not to cover the fan completely to allow for air movement.  

I know this may sound complicated but it's really simple and a lot of fun!  

Our bubble in my living room.  

Yes, they all had a lot of fun just playing on the tarp itself!  

My 7 Month old inside the bubble. 

Checking things out.  

Lumiloons.  

"Moons and stars"  

AKA

Color coding labels under a black light.  

Inside the bubble. 

This was AWESOME!!  

Inside the bubble.  

We used:

Glow sticks

Disco Ball

Lumiloons (Party section of Walmart)

Finger lights

Light up spinning tops

Color coding labels

If you have a black light you could also paint with neon paint.  If this was outside I totally would have done that.  I just didn't want paint all over my living room!  

RL  

Letters in a different "light"

This invitation combined my oldest's three favorite things right now... letters, stickers, and glow in the dark.  

The invitation

Letter/Number Templates-  Can be seen HERE

Neon Color Coding Labels (see below)

Black Light.  

I did laminate the sheets so I can use them over again.  The stickers peel off easily.  My 28 month old loves that "job".  

You do not need a black light for this but what fun is that?  :-P  

Labels purchased at Walmart for $1.00

My 28 month old usually HATES letters and loved loved loved this.  :-)  

Placing letters on.

Peeling stickers off.

My oldest (3.5) joining in.  

There are so many different ways to use these.  

I printed the letters out on TRANSLUCENT PAPER

Here the sheets are projected onto our magnetic white board.

We used homemade magnets to "fill in" the circles.  

You can also put them on your light panel with translucent bingo chips.  

Pop them in a binder for long road trips.  

RL 

I-Spy Bath Time Style

We are always excited when we find a new bath "toy."  The other day we were at Staples and saw these submergible flashlights on the end cap.  How fun!   My girls have a blast with these in the tub.  They are always shining them all around searching for things so I thought I would set an I-spy invitation up for them.  This was a last minute decision so the pictures are not the best.  

Materials:

Submergible flashlight

Things to "spy"

Something to hang them (I used both sticky putty and suction cups with hooks... Dollar Tree)

Checking things out.

This is with my flash on.  I hung various bath toys and animals.  I also did a few floating/sinking objects.  I didn't get any naked-free pictures, though. 

Flash on.

"I spy something orange!" 

Looking around

She was so excited when she found something (24 Months)

"I spy a monkey!!!!"

Something Red

My 3 year old loved this as well.  

She's pointing at the shower head here saying "I found something round"  :-)  

"I spy something blue.... and fluffy."  

RL 

Glowing Reactions

Materials:

Baking Soda

Vinegar

Yellow Highlighter

Water

Black light

To make glow water please click HERE

Add glow water to your vinegar (It can be diluted a lot) and pour over baking soda in a black lit room.  

Glowing Vinegar

Pouring Vinegar onto baking soda

Coolest thing ever!  Pictures do not do this justice.  Just be sure to have a lot of baking soda and vinegar on hand.  They will want to do it again and again!  

"Wow!!!!!"

Round 500  LOL  LOL

Close-up

This will also work with glow powder.  However, it's much more expensive and harder to find.  We just happened to have some on hand.  Yes, this is stuff we have on hand at our house.  LOL  

Glowing reaction invitation with orange

I mixed glow powder with baking soda.  

Pouring on vinegar

"This is so cool, Mommy"

"It's all gone???"

We also did this with elephant toothpaste.  For our elephant toothpaste post click HERE

To make the "toothpaste" glow, mix glow water or glow powder with the peroxide.  

I wish I had better pictures of this but I was to busy playing!  I will update when we do it again.  

Glowing elephant toothpaste

Awesome!

RL  

Illuminated Easter Egg Hunt

I know it's a bit early for Easter, but with all of the Easter stuff out in stores, my son has been asking to do an Easter egg hunt.  I bought some small lights at Michaels in the wedding section - a 12 pack for $10, put them in the eggs with some other fun stuff, and set this up for him tonight.  He absolutely LOVED it!  I cant wait to do it outside one night - so fun! 

(It was tough getting good pics)

For more fun in the dark, check out RLs post HERE 

(where I drew some inspiration from).

The eggs are just your standard plastic Easter eggs that can be purchased pretty much anywhere this time of year.  THESE are the lights I used.  You can find them at Michaels in the wedding aisle.

Plastic egg and finger light

The eggs are ready to hide

I hid the eggs while he was in the bath.....its still a little light outside.

on the hunt

Checking out his loot

2013

His illuminated eggs

Eggs hidden in the playroom

Eggs hidden in the playroom

- AK (MESE, MECD)

Glow and Seek

My oldest LOVES playing hide and seek lately.  There are only so many places you can hide in our house.  It was starting to get a little old!  LOL  I set this up for my two older girls and I can't even tell you how many games we played.  So much fun!  

All you need are some things that glow in the dark.  We used luminary balloons, glow bracelets, glow necklaces,  glow sticks, and submergible lights.  I purchased the balloons and submergible lights at Walmart and the glow bracelets, etc. at the Dollar Tree.  

"Hide" your objects around the room and let the fun begin. 

Pictures do not do this justice!  

Our first round!  

Girls searching for their glowing treasures.

They decided to put the collected ones in the middle of the playroom.  

"I found four balloons!"

My oldest wanted to take a turn at hiding them.  When I came in the room to find them she kept saying "You'll never find this one in here"... while taking it out of it's hiding spot.  Too funny!  

Their collection.  

The glow necklaces then went on the front porch for Santa's Reindeer.  :-)  

If you freeze the glow sticks after use they will last several days.  Also, I noticed that the glow sticks from Michaels Craft Store and Target are not as good of quality as the ones from Dollar Tree.

RL