- Our perfectly de-stressed mom of eight,
Woo! Mom of eight, every time I say it,
I get tired in my soul.
Mom of eight,
Kristin Gambaccini is back!
So, today she's got a fun summer craft project to
help keep your kiddos busy and out of your hair.
Even if it's just for 10 minutes, it counts.
It's a bathroom break.
Let's be real!
Kristin, welcome back to the show.
What do you have for us today?
(applause)
- Hey Kelly, thank you so much
for having me back and you got it right!
10 minutes, a 10 minute break in mom time
is like the equivalent of an hour in real time.
Every second counts.
- Yes!
- So we are making something today
that it's going to give you that precious time.
It's going to be fun,
it's a summer staple.
Kids love it!
Adults love it!
We are making homemade scented, rainbow bubbles.
So fun!
- So well I've got most of the rainbow colors here,
so what's happening here?
- You do.
So why don't you smell them, Kelly?
Cause I know they smell amazing.
See if you can figure out what some of these scents are.
- Oh, but they do smell really good.
Oh God!
- You do, I think you just smelled strawberry.
Is that strawberry?
- Oh yeah. That's nice.
What is that like pina colada?
- Pina colada!
- It smells like a snow cone!
- So the public service announcement
for everybody do not drink them,
but they are so easy to make!
You're not even going to believe this.
All right.
So I have my water here.
I have six cups of water and I believe you do too.
- Okay, I'm just blowing bubbles girl.
I'm ready, yes!
- I know. Okay. So we need the six cups
of water and I believe you already have some
I've got mine in my bowl.
We're going to add one cup of clear
unscented, dish soap.
And the reason we want it clear is
cause we're going to be adding our own colors.
And the reason we wanted unscented is
because we're going to be out in our own smelly smells.
Right? So we don't want it to mix
with something that's not going to be as good.
And then we need a tablespoon of glycerin.
Now glycerin is something that you can find
at the craft store.
A lot of times you can find it
in the baking aisle at your grocery store.
- Okay.
- So once you mix that,
now, you want to mix it up.
This is kind of like your bubble base.
This is where you're starting, so.
- Okay
- Good, good, good.
Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to
take a smaller container
I've got my old yogurt jars here that I'm kind
of repurposing for this because I want different colors.
I don't want one container with just one color.
So I'm going to add some into my little yogurt jar
and then we're going to add our food coloring.
Now you have Kelly Green.
- I do!
I believe your food coloring.
I have Kristin green.
I made my own tag.
- I like that!
- Such a mom thing to do!
So listen you only need like two drops.
You just need a little bit.
- Wait, but mine's bigger than yours, do I need more?
- Yours is bigger. That's true.
So you would want a little bit more.
My container is teeny tiny.
So that's a good point, Kelly.
But yeah, you just want it to,
till it gets the color you want.
- Oh my gosh!
And then the final step is going to be to add the smell.
Any essential oils that you want.
I believe you have peppermint.
I know I have eucalyptus.
- No, I have apple.
- Oh, you have apple.
- Ooh, That's good too.
So again, just a couple drops
and obviously we're matching the colors
in the scents together,
but let your kids mix it up.
Let them be scientists.
Let them mix up the colors in the scents and
and make a mess, but make sure they do it outside.
Cause if there are anything like my kids
this is going to end up all over the driveway.
- Amen.
Well, I've got one of those giant bubble wands here
and why I have it here is I have one
of these at home and I don't know how to use it.
My kids were like, let's do it.
And I'm like, uh...
So let's figure out how to use this bad boy!
Let's see if it blows.
Get it?
Okay. So weird.
Wait, douse it, douse it, wait,
watch it go. Watch it go.
- Did you make it?
- You did it!
- I had a baby bubble.
One more time.
- You did, but listen.
The fun's not done because
if you don't have bubble wands
or like that really cool bubble wand you have
you can take pipe cleaner,
and I just took some
of my plastic cookie cutters that were like fun
summery shapes, flowers, hearts, butterflies.
- Oh!
- And use the cookie cutter
as a mold for your pipe cleaner to make fun shapes.
Or if your kids aren't, you know, totally into that,
you can just do circles,
but you can make your own bubble wand too.
- Oh, that's clever!
But, I love this!
I love this smelly goodness too.
My kids would love this.
Thank you so much.
- I am so happy you love it.
Such a fun summer idea.
I hope that your kids enjoy it as much as mine do.
- Oh, my kids love bubbles, girl.
Never, that fun never goes away.
Neither does the cleaning up.
So first we'll go outside people.
So for more fun, DIY videos sure to follow Kristen
on Instagram @KristinGambaccini.
Thank you so much, Kristin.
Have a great summer!