Sensory Bubble Play Ideas – Room Lights Kids Soap Indoor Activity

Create your own bubble play activity for children with special needs

I wanted to create this page to share how I have created a fun, playful and above all NON MESSY indoor bubble play sessions for kids with specials needs.

You may already know that we have a FREE indoor workshop activity here so definitely check this out. However on this page I will share tips of how I simplified and tweaked things to adapt the workshop for children and adults with SEND.

Below are tips for how to play with soap bubbles indoors in a controlled way to make it fun, safe and non messy. Scroll down past the tips to watch videos of us playing with sensory bubbles, foam and lights indoors.

Create your own sensory bubble play!

TIP 1

Use Bubble Play Visual Schedule

Bubbly play visual aids, flash cards and visual schedule to help with communication and expectations. DOWNLOAD A FREE COPY.

Tip 2

Set Up

The set up is key to keeping this a mess and slip hazard free environment. (See our safe working practices here for all bubble activities). All bubbles are table top and DO NOT USE BIG WANDS. The way the tables are set up encourages free play and free movement.

Set up three tables, place a waterproof layer and a towel on top.

Table 1 – Foam Table. Use Johnsons Baby Bath, trays and foamers. (buy foamers)
Table 2 – Blow Bubbles Activity, Only small wands are used (buy some here)
Table 3 – Lights, animal toys and tubes. I encourage the kids to blow bubbles over the animals. Or just bubbles onto the lights.

MORE TIPS:

Use non gloopy bubble liquid like Uncle Bubble OR Bubbly Heavens Concentrate.
You can have the room lights off or on.
Add bubble shapes for some STEM science

Tip 3

Make sensory bubble lights

To make the sensory bubbles lights you simply put the battery operated pond lights into a tub with a lid, then you can make bubbles on the lid. The lights are waterproof however putting them inside the tubs gives extra space to blow bubbles onto and keeps the lights in good working order. You can find the Amazon links below to the lights and tubs we use.

Easy LED DIY light table for bubbles

Amazon sells an LED serving trays for drinks that is waterproof and re-chargable. These make very afforadable and easy light tables to make bubbles on top.

Sensory Bubble Play Ideas

These lights make enticing blowing bubbles very enticing.

Fully wet the lid and blow a giant bubble on top
Put your favourite plastic toy inside a bubble!
Blow a foam mountain on top

TIP 4

Go Inside A Bubble Activity

Use a XL dog whelping mat for the floor protection.
Use a non drippy/gloopy bubble liquid like Uncle Bubble OR Bubbly Heavens Concentrate.
Use a top down rope wand.This will enable you to put any child or adult inside a bubble including people who are standing or sitting in a wheel chair.