If you are at home and stuck with your kid you might as well do something fun and educational with them.

如果你也和孩子一起被困在家里 可能会想跟他们一起做些好玩儿又有意义的事情

What I've done here is put together a super, super fun science demonstration that is safe to do at home with your kids

我给大家展示的是一个超级超级有意思的科学实验 很安全 你可以跟孩子一起做

and hopefully all these ingredients you already have in your pantry or your craft drawer or something like that because I don't know about you,

希望这些原材料你家里都有 我不了解大家的情况

but I get maxed out on screen time so I think it's really fun to do something kinesthetic with your hands.

但我在屏幕前的时候超级累 所以用手做一些活动起来的事情非常有趣

And if you can learn something while you're doing it you might as well have fun too.

如果你在做的同时能学到些东西 那你也可能会很开心

Okay, this is called the bubble snake and I'm going to explain first the ingredients and then give you step-by-step instructions on how to do this.

好 这个叫做泡泡蛇 首先我会告诉大家都需要哪些原料 然后再逐步给你们演示怎么做

First things first is you need to get a small plastic soda bottle or a water bottle.

首先 你需要一个小小的塑料汽水瓶或水瓶

I have these little ones in my garage because I use them when I breathe fire but the bigger soda bottles or water bottles work just as well

我车库里有这种小瓶子 因为我会用它们吹火 不过大一点的汽水瓶或水瓶也可以

because what you're going to do with it is actually just cut it off so you have the top part of it but I'll get there in just a second.

因为你只需要把它割开 只留下上半部分就可以了 那个我待会儿再说

So, any size bottle will do. You need food coloring.

所以 任何尺寸的瓶子都可以 还需要食用色素

I prefer the reds and the pinks when I'm doing this outside but because of being on camera I'm going to use greens and blues for you.

我在室外做这个实验的时候 喜欢用红色和粉色 不过现在在录像 所以我就用绿色和蓝色吧

You're going to need a half cup of water, a quarter cup of dish soap, a bowl to mix your dish soap and water, a spoon, one rubber band and then an old rag.

需要半杯水 四分之一杯洗洁精 一个碗来混合洗洁精和水 一个勺子 一个橡皮筋 和一块儿旧布

You can use a sock, you can use a rag, you can use a towel, a tee shirt. Anything will really work for this.

你可以用袜子 一块儿破布 一条毛巾 T恤 任何布都可以

You just don't want something that's super, super porous or super thick.

不要选那种超级容易漏水 或超级厚的就行

The first thing you're going to do is you're going to take your plastic soda bottle or water bottle and you're going to cut off the bottom part.

你需要做的第一件事就是 把塑料苏打水瓶或水瓶的底部剪掉

You only want the top portion of your soda bottle.

你只需要瓶子的上半部分

So a perfect one is going to look like this.

所以最好就是这样的

You're going to see your top part here and then it's cut off right there at the edge.

留下上半部分 底部剪掉

Then what you're going to do is take your old rag and you're going to wrap it around the edge of your soda bottle so that's where your rubber band comes into play.

然后把这块儿旧布包裹在苏打瓶边缘上 这时候就需要橡皮筋了

You're going to wrap the rubber band around your towel just like this.

像这样 把橡皮筋缠在布上

Two or three times should be absolutely plenty.

两三圈应该就足够了

You just want to make sure that towel sticks on here.

确保毛巾固定住就行了

I did this once and the rubber band snapped and the stuff went all over this actor's head because I was doing it on camera.

我以前做过一次 橡皮筋断了 然后东西都喷到了那个演员的头上 当时正在拍摄呢

It was an awesome day but the poor guy was covered in food coloring.

那天超级棒 不过那个倒霉的演员身上全是食用色素

Once you have this you're going to put it off to the side and we're going to build our little concoction over here.

弄好以后先放在一边 我们来兑一下混合剂

In your bowl you need to have a quarter cup of dish soap. Any bubbles will do.

碗里需要有四分之一杯洗洁精 任何泡沫都可以

Bubble bath will work if you're keeping your dish soap around for quarantine time which I totally understand.

芳香泡沫剂也可以 如果你想留着洗洁精 毕竟现在有疫情 我完全理解

Then you've got a half cup of water so you're going to add that into your dish soap.

然后有半杯水 把水加到洗洁精里

Now you want to make sure that you stir this together so completely stir.

现在要把它搅拌一下 充分搅拌

And I would stir for at least 10 or 15 seconds.

我至少会搅10到15秒

I'm not going to do that for you here but make sure you stir for a long time because you want to make sure that your solution is super bubbly.

这里我就不演示了 不过你一定要多搅一会儿 这样溶剂才会有超多泡泡

You don't want to dip your bubble snake apparatus into just water.

你可不想让你的泡沫蛇装备蘸到的只是水吧

You want to make sure you have the soap as well.

一定还要有肥皂

So then you're going to take this, flip it upside down so that your towel is exposed and then grab your food coloring.

然后拿起这个 翻过来 毛巾朝上 然后拿着食用色素

Now the goal is to cover your entire patch down here, the whole piece on this side.

目的是要把整面都涂满色素 一整面

Cover the entire thing with your food coloring.

用食用色素涂满

I like to do stripes and zig-zags and patterns with all types of different colors, but just for the sake of time today I'm just going to use a big green blob.

我喜欢用不同的颜色画条纹或之字形或图案 今天为了节省时间 我就只画一大片绿色吧

Not super attractive but it will work for our purpose here.

不那么好看 但效果足够了

Then what I'm going to do is I'm just going to move my soap out of the way for a second here.

现在我要 我先把洗洁精拿开一下

Now is the fun part. You're going to take your apparatus.

这就是好玩儿的部分了 你拿着这个东西

Now you're going to dunk it food coloring side down into your dish soap water bowl.

把有色素的一面浸在洗洁精水里

When you pick it up let it drain.

然后拿起来 沥一下

You're going to see that the food coloring comes off, totally normal.

你会看到食用色素有脱落 正常现象

But if you're type A like me and you don't like lots of messes let it drain into the bowl.

如果你跟我一样是A类型的 不喜欢弄得太脏乱 那就让它滴在碗里

Now, for the fun part. Once it stops draining you're going to go from the side.

现在 很有意思了 等它沥干后 往边上来点儿

Take a deep breath and you blow. And you make this incredible bubble snake.

深吸一口气 然后吹气 就会出现这个超级棒的泡泡蛇

And so what you're doing is you're exhaling all of this gas that's in your lungs out so there's nitrogen molecules, oxygen, carbon dioxide, even some water in here.

你需要把肺里的所有气体都吹出去 会有氮分子 氧气 二氧化碳 甚至还有些水分

If you can go outside but stay within your little area six feet away from everybody, you can let the wind actually carry this bubble snake around and it is so fun.

如果你可以到室外去 跟别人保持六英尺的安全距离 还能让风把泡泡蛇吹起来 超好玩儿

I love, love, love it. So what I love about this experiment is it's something you can do at home with your kids.

我超超超喜欢 我喜欢这个实验是因为你可以在家跟孩子们一起做

It is completely safe. There's nothing here that's dangerous at all.

特别安全 没有任何危险因素

No explosions or fire or anything, but you're outside, you're engaged, you're having a good time, some family time, but you're learning as well.

没有爆炸或火之类的 但你在室外 你参与进去了 玩得很开心 共度家庭时光 而且还学习了

The kids might ask you what are the molecules that are in your exhale and you can talk about how you exhale carbon dioxide and oxygen and nitrogen.

孩子可能会问你呼出的气体中有哪些分子 你就可以告诉他有二氧化碳 氧气和氮气

I just think it's so fun to spend some time with the family and do some science as well.

我觉得跟家人一起做点科学实验真的超好玩

So, if you're looking for other experiments you can check out my Big Book of Experiments which has 25 experiments that you can do with things that are at home hopefully in your kitchen right now.

如果你还想了解更多其他实验 可以去看一下我的《实验大全》 里面有25种实验 很可能在家里的厨房就能做哦