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Are you looking for things for kids to do outside when it’s cold? Freezing bubbles are a family favorite. Mowglis boys’ overnight camp understands the importance of keeping your child active even in the coldest months, filling our blog with ideas to get you through to spring. Frozen bubbles offer a popular outdoor activity for kids of all ages during sub-freezing temperatures. It requires little time and materials to accomplish and combines science with nature – our favorite boys’ summer camp combination.

Dive Out in the Deep Freeze for Fun with Frozen Bubbles

Bundle up and head outside. A day below 20 F with minimal wind offers the ideal environment – the colder, the better. Seek out suitable bubble solution containers: A small amount of soap in a tiny dish will quickly freeze outside, so we recommend larger containers for storing bubble solution. Figuring out the ideal outdoor temperature and bubble-blowing techniques requires trial and error – something our summer campers excel at – so be prepared for lots of experimentation.

Making the Best Frozen Bubble Solution

You can make a bubble solution using everyday household products:

Standard bubble solution doesn’t provide the thickness and strength required for frozen bubbles – and the sugar in our recipe enhances crystal formation. Mix the first three ingredients in a plastic container with a lid until nearly transparent. Add the dish soap last and stir gently to prevent foaming.

Frozen Bubble Tips and Tricks

It may take several attempts to freeze a bubble successfully – don’t give up! It’s worth the effort. To make the process easier, we offer these suggestions:

Freezing Bubbles Doubles as an Outdoor Activity and Science Lesson

Bubbles freeze differently than a lake or puddle, starting when the edges come in contact with snow or ice. Water freezes in a systematic progression, called the freeze front, from these touch points, moving toward the body’s interior. However, when bubbles come into contact with snow or ice, crystals rapidly appear, moving around on the bubble’s surface to form distinct patterns, dubbed ‘the snow globe effect’ by scientists. Why? As bubbles freeze, each crystal forms a freeze front. Liquid portions keep moving, tearing apart ice crystals until freezing through. Though appearing as a single layer when frozen, there are actually three bubble layers. Only the middle, a layer of water, freezes. The surface and interior layer of bubble solution do not. Temperature impacts crystal formation, changing from leaf-shaped crystals in warmer temperatures to snowflake patterns in frigid weather.

Break Away from the Screen with Help from Camp Mowglis

From things for kids to do outside when it’s cold to tech-free activities your child can enjoy all summer long, Camp Mowglis has you covered. Dive into new and exciting adventures with help from our overnight summer camp for boys. Contact us at 603-744-8095 to make reservations for the upcoming camping season today.

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The Mow-Trow Gear Exchange: Smart & Sustainable Gear Sharing:

If your son has outgrown Mowglis uniform items (aka Mow-Trow) that are still in good shape, please add them to this spreadsheet. If you’re looking for Mow-Trow or other gear (hiking boots, backpacks, etc.), you can check out this spreadsheet, and if you find what you’re looking for, contact the parent who posted it up and either arrange for shipping (or to pick it up if you live in the same area).

 

The best way to pay for shipping will be for the family with the items to box them up and bring them to a UPS Store and have the parent receiving the items call the store with their credit card number. That is how we send lost and found items at the end of the summer, and it works quite well. Please note when items have been claimed once they have been. Any unclaimed items can be brought to camp on arrival day or shipped to camp.

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Protect Your Investment: Program Protector Tuition Insurance:

Program Protector, tuition insurance, is now available for purchase during the online registration process.

 

If purchased, may protect up to the full cost of your son’s session and include various other benefits should the need arise.

 

To buy this coverage, please go HERE.

 

Determine if Program Protection Tuition Insurance is right for you by going HERE.

Please be in touch if you have any questions about this program. 

 

PLEASE submit all camper forms by May 15th. There aren’t too many forms; all are important, and most can be completed right online.

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Keeping Campers Safe: Our Tick Management Approach:

How do you manage the threat of ticks?

While we have fewer ticks in NH than in more southern New England states, we still take ticks extremely seriously.

 

Here are some big-picture ways we protect our campers from ticks:

 

  • Our defense starts with staff education – all campers and counselors are taught what, where, and when to look for, and we have the campers do tick checks at least daily and every time they’ve been out in the bushes.
  • If a tick is found embedded on a camper while at camp, he will go to the nurse for removal and bite-site mapping, and then the tick is saved, and the camper will be monitored daily for any signs of infection.
  • If there is a parental desire or signs of infection, the tick is sent to a lab for testing.
  • We have bottles of bug spray throughout camp and on all trips.
  • We cut back brush to minimize the chance of ticks hopping onto folks as they walk around camp.

Mowglis Boys Summer Campers are Family

Our families know that Mowglis overnight summer camp for boys aged 7-15 is an extraordinary place. This is due in no small part to the wonderful families who have chosen our outdoor leadership camp for their sons. In joining the Mowglis family, you help us pass the torch, carrying on the tradition of summer camp to future generations and other families across the country.

 

From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you for becoming part of the Camp Mowglis family. Please help us spread the joy of camping. If you know of someone you’d like to invite to join our camping family, please complete our camp referral form so we can reach out.

 

Thank you – and see you soon!

Nick Robbins, Director

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