Children love to play with bubbles and they can provide a wonderful sensory experience in the woodlands. A whole host of skills come into play when bubble blowing:
Sensory processing skills - the slippery feel of the solution on hands, the light floatiness of the bubbles, the feeling of blowing the bubbles away or letting them pop on your skin.
Fine motor skills - grasping the wand, dipping it in the solution, pointing a finger to pop the bubbles.
Hand/eye co-ordination and visual tracking - coordinating the movements to blow a bubble and then follow its path as it floats through the air and drifts to the forest floor.
Gross motor skills- swinging arms to create bubbles, jumping and stomping to pop the bubbles.
Fine motor skills - grasping the wand, dipping it in the solution, pointing a finger to pop the bubbles.
Oral motor skills - getting the technique right to blow the perfect bubble takes a lot of concentration. The use of the facial muscles to blow the bubbles can help with the formation of letters and sounds.
Hand/eye co-ordination and visual tracking - coordinating the movements to blow a bubble and then follow its path as it floats through the air and drifts to the forest floor.
Social skills - sharing the bubbles, agreeing whether or not popping or catching other people's bubbles is allowed., praising each other's bubble blowing efforts.
Language skills - describing the size and direction of the bubbles.
The children also observe how the bubbles react to landing on different surfaces - spongy moss, rough tree bark, and see the beauty of the tree canopy reflected in the iridescent bubbles.
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