Blowing bubbles is one of the world’s oldest and most popular activities for young children. The wonder, awe and stimulation that bubbles provide, represent an exciting way to encourage your baby’s curiosity and learning.
Singing a little song while you blow the bubbles for your baby makes it all the more fun. It also makes the experience multi-sensory, providing simultaneous visual, haptic (touch) and auditory stimulation. This allows more cognitive connections and associations to be made with a concept and provides a more effective way of learning.
Here are 5 songs that you can sing to your baby (in between blows) the next time you’re blowing bubbles.
1. Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere
(Sarah Richard-Preston 2012)
I wrote this little song when my eldest child was a baby and I would sing it with her every time we blew bubbles (and still do!). It’s taken from Session 3 of The Bubble Box Music Activities for Babies Program, and the video features actions that you might also like to try.
Lyrics
Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere
Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles in the air
Bubbles, Bubbles floating down
Bubbles Bubbles hit the ground. POP!
2. Bubbles
(tune: My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean) If you can’t remember the tune it is the third song in the first session of my online program.
Lyrics
The bubbles flew over the flowers
The bubbles flew over the trees
The bubbles flew over the grasslands
So many bubbles, I see.
Bubbles, bubbles, bring back those bubbles to me, to me
Bubbles, bubbles bring back those bubble to me.
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3. I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
(Jaan Kenbrovin* and John William Kellette 1919)
This is a beautiful song which my Grandma used to sing to me when I was a little girl. If you don’t already know it, have a listen to get an idea of the tune. The video is also from Session 3 of my program.
Verse 1
I’m dreaming dreams, I’m scheming schemes, I’m building castles high.
They’re born anew, their days are few, Just like a sweet butterfly.
And as the daylight is dawning, They come again in the morning!
Chorus
I’m forever blowing bubbles, Pretty bubbles in the air,
They fly so high, nearly reach the sky, Then like my dreams they fade and die.
Fortune’s always hiding, I’ve looked everywhere,
I’m forever blowing bubbles, Pretty bubbles in the air.
Verse 2
When shadows creep, when I’m asleep, To lands of hope I stray!
Then at daybreak, when I awake, My bluebird flutters away.
Happiness, you seem so near me, Happiness, come forth and cheer me!
Repeat Chorus
4. Pop Go the Bubbles
(tune: Pop Goes the Weasel)
Lyrics
We dip our wands in the bubble soap.
We wave them all around.
The bubbles go up in the air.
Pop! Go the bubbles.
5. 1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Bubbles
(tune: 10 Little Indians)
Lyrics
1 little, 2 little, 3 little bubbles
4 little, 5 little, 6 little bubbles
7 little, 8 little, 9 little bubbles
10 little bubbles go pop, pop, pop
Pop those, pop those, pop those bubbles
Pop those, pop those, pop those bubbles
Pop those, pop those, pop those bubbles
10 little bubbles go pop, pop, pop
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