Museum of Science, Boston

Books for Kids

  • Bubble-ology
    , by
    Jacqueline Barber
  • How Do You Make a Bubble
    , by
    William Hooks
  • Pop! A Book About Bubbles
    , by
    Kimberly Brubaker Bradley & Margaret Miller

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Bubble-ology: Toddlers






  

    

  Bubble-ology can be a fun science activity for people of all ages. We provide these generalizations as guidelines about what children at different ages might do during Bubble explorations at the Discovery Center’s Experiment Station, in the kitchen at home, or at school.


Listed below are science and technology process skills that children may be practicing during their explorations. Please remember: each child develops at a different rate, so some children in each age group may be able to do some of the things described in the age group before or after their own. 


How might toddlers explore Bubble-ology?



  

      


  

    
Classify - Toddlers




Toddlers can describe the bubbles they see as 'small' or 'large' and can identify the colors they see swirling in the bubble.


 Toddlers can describe the various bubble tools and surfaces that bubbles touch as 'wet' or 'dry'.
  





  

    
Observe - Toddlers




Toddlers can watch the bubbles float and notice what happens when they pop. 


Even young toddlers can track the path of bubbles- as they move through the air- with their eyes, or by pointing to the bubble.
  





  

    
Use Tools - Toddlers




Toddlers are beginning to realize that tools can have different uses.  Many toddlers know how to drink through a straw.  Using a familiar tool in an unusual way, like  blowing into the straw instead of sucking on the straw, produces an exciting result.  


Toddlers should be closely supervised by an adult during this activity, and should be reminded often to blow out instead of drinking in when using the straw.