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What to get for the wand:
2 - 48" long wooden dowels (available at home improvement or craft stores)
Paint for dowels
2 - screw eyes
2 - carabiners (small enough to fit through the screw eyes)
3/16" Diamond Braid Clothesline (walmart)
16 large metal washers, optional (they should fit loosely over the clothesline)
1 bag of 4" zip ties
1 box Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda (I found it at Ace Hardware)
2) Drill small holes in one end of each dowel. Screw in a screw eye in each.
3) Measure out a 9' piece and a 18' piece of clothesline. These can be any length but one should be twice the length of the other.
4) Remove the clothesline core. Click here to see how. Discard inner core.
5) Boil the clothesline for an hour. (Note how many cups of water you used.)
6) Turn off the heat and when it comes down to about 150 degrees, pour in the Super Washing Soda. Use one tablespoon of Super Washing Soda per cup of water that the clothesline was boiling in. Stir gently and then let soak for at least one hour. This can safely be left soaking overnight.
7) Rinse the clothesline thoroughly, then hang in the sun to dry.
8) Tie the 20' piece to the 10' piece using a square knot.
9) Put the carabiner on the clothesline near the knot and secure it with a zip tie.
10) String the 16 washers on the 20' piece of clothesline.
11) Tie the other ends together with a square knot.
12) Put the carabiner on the clothesline near the knot and secure it with a zip tie. You should now have a big loop of clothesline with carabiners near each knot, and washers hanging from the 20' section.
13) Hang it up using the carabiners on nails so that the 10' section is taut.
14) Divide the washers in half and attach the lower clothesline to the upper clothesline with a zip tie. Keep dividing and attaching with zip ties until you have something like this picture. (Refer to this video for how to do the dividing, although he does not use washers.)
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| I should have had this hung up so that the top line was taut. |
15) Cut off the ends of the zip ties.
16) Attach the carabiners to the screw eyes on the ends of the dowels.
Bubble Wand References:
Wick Materials
Removing Clothesline Core
Soda Washing Clothesline
Making the Garland
What to get for the bubble stuff:
8 cups of luke warm water
1/2 teaspoon, rounded, Guar Gum (I ordered some online from Bob's Red Mill, but
if you are local I am happy to give you a rounded teaspoon of mine.)
1/3 to 1/2 cup Dawn Platinum (Dawn Pro was recommended but I could not find it at the store.)
1 teaspoon, rounded, Baking Powder
Rubbing Alcohol, just enough to cover the Guar Gum
1) Put 8 cups of water in whatever you plan to store the bubble stuff in.
2) Put the Guar Gum in a small bowl. Add enough rubbing alcohol to just cover it. Stir to make a slurry.
3) Pour the slurry in the water. If there is any left in the bowl, scoop up some of the 8 cups of water to rinse it out.
4) Stir for 30 seconds.
5) Add Dawn and stir gently.
6) Add the baking powder to the water mixture and stir gently. Don't worry if there are clumps of baking powder. This bubble stuff can be stored for a few months.
Don't be intimidated by this recipe. Click here to watch a 5 year old do it.
Bubble Stuff References
