From today in history, 1885:
The Ceres club will give a “bubble party” next Thursday at Miss Minnie Pettee’s.
Apparently it was quite the fad in the 1870s-80s, among adults more than children!
https://forgottenstories.net/tag/soap-bubble-party/
https://books.google.com/books?id=M_LQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=soap+bubble+party&source=bl&ots=iGqm8PeB2I&sig=XhFpWIRCj-JFvNc9zDg70ydwCrY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9jPuYobXRAhUk2oMKHchkDhs4ChDoAQhqMAU#v=onepage&q=soap%20bubble%20party&f=false
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We should hold one and do the bubble dance!
Bubbles are a lot of fun, and there’s some good math and science with them – surface tension, volume, air pressure, etc.
Back when I was at the children’s museum we had a room set aside for Bubbles – giant bubbles, foam, square bubbles, and so on. We all got pretty adept at making and handling bubbles (wet your hands with soapy water and you can carry them). I still have my giant bubble wand, that makes enormous bubbles on good days (cool and wet days, to be precise).
How novel
That book excerpt is great… there was a lot of marching about at a bubble party.
Good games suggested – largest bubble, keeping it aloft longest, most bubbles, reaching the ceiling with a bubble.