- [Instructor] Here's a fun activity to try on a cold, snowy day.

Can you see what has happened to my bubble?

It's frozen.

Playing with frozen bubbles is another way to watch crystals form right before your eyes.

Stay tuned and we'll show you how this works.

To watch crystals form and see the fascinating process of frozen bubbles, you only need a few supplies.

One is something to hold your bubble solution.

As you can see, I have a can flipped over here that has a depression in the top that I've poured a small amount of bubble solution in.

The next thing you need is just a simple straw.

As you can see, I've cut this straw to make it a little smaller and this is the tool we're going to use to blow our bubbles.

So right now, as you can see, it's a snowy day.

The temperature outside is about five degrees.

I've made sure that I'm very bundled up and I'm ready with my bubble solution to try our crystal formation experiment.

Put a small amount of bubble solution into the depression on the top of your can or your mug and let's blow some bubbles and see what happens.

As you can see, the ice crystals are forming very quickly in our bubble.

I'm gonna bring the camera over, so you can take a closer look at the individual crystals that have formed on the surface.

Notice how the crystals have branched and feathered out similar to how our snowflakes grow arms as they fall through the sky.

Try this experiment a couple of times and see if you can notice the different patterns that form in your bubbles.

Remember, you need a very cold day, so bundle up and have fun exploring.