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Take a sheet of aluminum foil that has been wrapped in melted cheese or chocolate. Smooth it out nicely with your fingernail on the table. Attach a cork (you can use polyethylene) to the middle of the sheet and outline it with a pencil, and around this circle carefully draw and cut out six petals. Rosette diameter 8-10 cm.

Put the cork in the middle of the saucer, and moisten the rosette in soapy water and put it on top. The petals will fall off and droop. It seems that our flower withered before it had time to bloom. But it only seems! Blow a bubble and bring it to the center of the outlet. Now the petals will stick to the bubble and rise, stretched with an elastic soapy film!

Keep blowing the bubble and the flower will open wider and wider.

soap flowers

True, it is not particularly fragrant: laundry soap. But our flower is very beautiful: silver petals and a rainbow ball in the middle!

With the help of soap bubbles, you can make other flowers - snowy. We have already talked about snowflakes. They are formed from needle-shaped ice crystals. It happens high in the clouds. But you can see the formation of snow stars on the ground, under your very nose.

On a frosty but quiet day, go outside and blow a big soap bubble. Now the water in a thin film of soap solution will begin to freeze. Ice needles will appear in it. Before your eyes, they will gather into wonderful ice stars and flowers.

Author: Galpershtein L.Ya.

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