Frozen bubble game for kids

An online Java game. Please note : you must have Java enabled in your browser to use this game. Please be patient while the game applet loads. To start the game, click anywhere on the applet with your mouse. Then press the "UP" arrow fire key to start the game. Left and right arrow keys aim the cannon, the up arrow fires a bubble. So blow the bubble, then release the bottle so the bubble detaches before it starts to freeze.

The time you have will vary based on the temperature. Try and set the bubble down gently. For best results blow the bubble onto some snow. Make sure there is no breeze at all. This is critical. Find a sheltered spot and make sure the kids are not blowing or creating any breeze. This will cause the bubbles to shatter. Have a nice soft landing spot for the bubbles. We found a railing with a fresh layer of snow was perfect!

If you do everything right you can turn this into a fun challenge to see who can build the biggest frozen bubble tower, or who can make the longest line of bubbles, or 10 bubbles in a row. Lots of opportunities for some fun, frozen competition! After years of failures trying to get bubbles to freeze I ended up learning a LOT about how to make this happen successfully. First, temperature is your friend and your enemy.

You need to keep everything cold and that is why we needed to create our bubble blaster. If you try to blow bubbles, the air in our lungs is too warm and the difference in temperature between the air outside and the air we blow out of our lungs is too great and leads to breaking. Remember warm air expands! So when you blow into the bubble juice, what is that warm air going to do?

Expand and break your bubble! That is also why we want to chill our bubble juice, to bring it closer to the outside temperature. You want nice strong bubbles to really make this experiment work. To freeze up nice and solid some of our bubbles are still there days later!

The corn syrup provides that nice thickness we need in our juice to make a strong bubble. After making our bubbles if we gently knocked them free, they would roll across the ground like marbles! Those gorgeous crystal formations you see on the bubbles is the process of crystallization. This is caused by the freezing process but is helped along by the sugar.

This gives us some gorgeous frozen bubbles. Want to learn more about the science of bubbles? Check out our study of bubbles. Head outside and blow some bubbles by dipping the end of the straw into the bubble juice then squeezing the bubble blaster to blow the bubble onto some nice, fresh snow. Watch them freeze! Shelley has a BSc Psychology specialization, with post grad research and studies in memory, cognition, learning and childhood mental health. She is passionate about exploring educational approaches that promote positive children's mental health practices and encourage a love of learning in all students.

Skip to content. What you will discover in this article! Learn how to create a gorgeous crystal frozen bubble with these secrets! Keyword Experiment, Frozen Bubbles, Winter. You earn no points for these bubbles, but other bubbles may become orphaned in the process, earning you 1 point each.

The next bubble that will be played is shown at the bottom left corner of the board under a rainbow. You may find it useful to plan ahead.

If you cannot form a group of three, then part of rainbow at the bottom left corner disappears. When the rainbow is gone, all of the bubbles sift down. This may cause orphan bubbles to fall off, but they do not contribute to your score. If the bubbles cross the line at the bottom of the board, the game ends. This game was originally created by Taito in It was then called Puzzle Bobble or Bust-a-Move.