bubble wrap

Bubble wrap is one of life’s simple pleasures.  Just by looking at this photo, I know exactly how the entire experience of popping these bubbles will feel.  Finding the sweet spot to pop just one between a thumb and finger...  Gleefully jumping on it...  The machine gun speed of the pops when it is twisted…I know I am not the only one!

The other day I received a box that had strange bubble wrap in it – rectangular bubbles.  I made a few attempts to pop them to no avail.  Then I realized that each of the rectangles is connected to the entire column of rectangles. So squeezing one bubble only results in the air rushing into the chambers of all the other bubbles along that column.  I thought it was VERY clever and gave some silent kudos to the inventor of this ingenious concept. 

 

Today, Owen and Jack found this new bubble wrap and, having experienced the joys of “old” bubble wrap , went about their mission.  

    (Jack – laying on it)

(Owen: There is something wrong with this bubble wrap, Mama)

Finally Owen thinks to twist it – and with some help from Mama, results in growing bubbles, and then,

popping bubbles!