Fun Freetime: Wonki Wands

Disclosure: I received complimentary products to facilitate this post. All opinions are my own.

Have you ever seen some of those giant bubble wands? Wonki Wands are wands connected with string that make huge bubbles - bigger than I thought was possible! When I first saw the promo video, I was skeptical, but then I got to try some out on my own.

The moment of truth happened with my daughters and two other friends. There was quite a bit of frustration at first as we tried to get it to work. I used the Wonki bubble solution and put it on a dish, since the wands wouldn't fit in the bottle. The bubble kept breaking before it even got going. But then I used a different solution in a bottle with a wider mouth, and it worked like a charm. When I put the Wonki bubble solution in the large-mouth bottle it worked. So for me, it seemed I needed to use a bottle instead of a dish to get them to work.

The bubbles were huge - taller than my 4-year-old daughter! Even the kids could get pretty large bubbles going, and it was lots of fun. It's a great summer toy, and at $20 is pretty budget-friendly.

(The video shows it working well in a dish, but it never did for me. Maybe it depends how quickly or slowly the strings are pulled apart or something.)