What do you need

1. Soap bubbles

You can buy ready-made soap bubble solutions with wands inside, but it’s much cheaper to make your own by simply mixing the following ingredients in a container:

• 1/4 cup of glycerin – You can find it in pharmacies
• 1/2 cup dish soap – Various dishwashing detergents will have different characteristics, so experiment a bit to get the best solution.
• 2 cups of warm water – some recommend distilled water.

2. Bubble wands

For bubble wands you can use pipe cleaners, plastic lids with a hole cut in the center, a can or round plastic container with the bottom cut out, fly swatters, a slotted spoon, a wire whisk, cookie cutters, strainers, etc. cheese graters, or a coat hanger wrapped tightly with cotton string.

Games with soap bubbles

• biggest bubble – Using a bubble wand, see which team can pop the biggest bubble without popping it.
• The biggest bubble using only your hands – Clasp your fingers together to form an opening, dip your hands into a container of bubble solution to get a film of bubbles, and if you blow gently, you can make bubbles up to two feet in diameter.
• bubble archery – Place a dartboard at the end of the room. Youth must blow a bubble from behind the line and then use their breath to blow it towards the target for points.
• bubble baseball – Divide the young people into teams and have them stand in a line one behind the other. Set a turning point some distance from the starting line. One at a time, someone from each team will blow a bubble and catch it with their wand. They must then race to the turning point and return to their team without losing or popping their bubble. When they get back to the start, the next person in line goes. If a bubble pops or they lose the bubble on their wand, they must go back to the beginning and start over. The team with all its players to finish first wins.
• bubble burst – With just one breath, see who can blow the most bubbles. If you take a deep breath, you’ll be amazed at how many bubbles you can blow!
• bubble catch – Blow a limited number of bubbles and then the youngsters run after them and try to catch them with their wand. If they pop the bubble or fail to catch one, they’re out.
• bubble count – A young man blows bubbles while you say a number. The first person to pop as many bubbles wins.
• bubble ball – Each of the young people receives a bubble wand and bubbles and, staying in a designated area, they try to blow bubbles among themselves. If you pop a bubble, you’re out. Players must be stationary in one place and can only pivot on one foot, but can crouch and spin to avoid bubbles. They can even fly them.
• bubble float – Who can float a bubble in the air the longest before it bursts? Youngsters can keep their bubble aloft longer by gently blowing under it. Variation, give the team 30 seconds to pop the bubbles. After the 30 seconds are up, take them until the last bubble pops.
• bubble freeze – The young people blow bubbles on a paper plate and then, before they burst, they put them in the freezer. The biggest frozen bubble wins.
• popping bubble – Form pairs or teams. One person (or more) blows the bubbles while another person pops them. The pair/team that pops the most bubbles in 1 minute wins. Make it more difficult by not allowing them to use their hands. Change it up by requiring bubbles to pop with different body parts: nose, ear, elbows, foot, etc.
• bubble race – Divide the young people into teams. Teams line up in single file rows. Mark a finish line at least ten feet away. The person at the front of the line must blow a bubble and then guide that bubble across the finish line. He or she then runs back to the team and sends the next person to do the same. If someone’s bubble bursts or floats away, you have to go back and start over. This continues until each member of a team gets a bubble on the line and returns to their team.
• bubble race – Youngsters must blow their bubble along the race track and cross the finish line!
• bubble stack – One person blows a bubble while another catches it with the bubble wand. Another team member blows another bubble, which must also be caught and placed on top of the first bubble. The team with the highest chip stack at the end of sixty seconds wins.
• highest bubble – Who can blow a bubble higher in the air?
• mega bubble – This Minute to Win game requires kids to first blow a bubble from behind a starting line, then use their own hot air to move it around the playing area and through a holding hoop hanging from the ceiling. The smaller the hoop, the more difficult the challenge. You can also increase the distance to the hoop to increase the challenge. Rules: You can’t touch the bubbles. If a bubble bursts while traveling through the hoop, it doesn’t count; actually, you have to go through the hoop and see yourself on the other side. You can’t touch the hoop itself. If a player must go back to the beginning and start over, he must stand behind the free throw line to blow the next set of bubbles.
• nested bubbles – Blow bubbles within bubbles. Using straws, who can get the most bubbles inside a bubble without it bursting?

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Use the games as a starting point for discussion about things in life that are temporary vs. eternal.

MAKE IT SPIRITUAL

• What do all bubbles have in common? – Finally everyone broke out!
• What are some things that last forever?
• What are some of the things we strive for in life that are only temporary?
• Why is it so much easier to focus on temporary things?

Some bubbles last longer than others, but eventually the bubble bursts. The same thing often happens with the attractions of life.

• What are some things in life that may seem lasting at first but are actually only temporary?

Explain that each bubble is filled with air. Even though you can’t see the air, you know it’s there because it gives the bubble its shape. In life sometimes we must believe in what we cannot see and this is called faith.

• How is faith related to the desire to live for things that are eternal rather than temporary?

The bubbles catch our attention. This is how they do things in the world. In fact, the bubble is like a small little world.

• What are some of the things in life that catch our attention?

MAKE IT PRACTICAL

• What are the characteristics of a person who lives for eternal things?
• What things do they live for? Focus on? Fight for?
• How can a reminder that so many things are temporary change the way a person thinks and lives life?
• How can having an eternal perspective on things affect a person’s focus? dreams? aspirations? Do you share? Priorities?

MAKE IT PERSONAL

• What are some of the priorities in your life right now?
• Are these things more beneficial for the here and now or for the eternal?
• Are you focused on things that will last?
• What would change if you had a more eternal perspective on life?

VERSE WRITING

• James 4:13-14 – “Listen now, you who say: ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, do business and earn money.’ Well, you don’t even know what will happen tomorrow! . What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a while and then vanishes.”
• Matthew 6:19-21 – “Lay up not for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not corrupt, and where thieves do not They do not undermine or steal, for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
• Luke 12:15-21 – “Then he said to them: Beware! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in the abundance of goods.” And he told them this parable: “A rich man’s land gave a bountiful harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What should I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ “So he said, ‘This is what I’m going to do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I will say to myself: “You have a lot of grain stored. for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night they will demand your life. Then who will keep what you have prepared for yourself? “So it will be with the one who lays up things for himself, but is not rich towards God “.
• Colossians 3:1 – “Since you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.”
• 1 John 2:15-17 – “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For whatever is in the world – the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes and the pride of life, does not come from the Father, but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but he who does the will of God lives forever.”
• Mark 8:34-36 – “Then he called the crowd together with his disciples and said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. Because whoever wants to save his life, he will lose it; but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel, he will save it. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world and lose the soul of it?”
• Matthew 6:31-33 – “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the heathen run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them, but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.