Last year my children were told to stop blowing bubbles around the tents on a campsite. Is it normal to stop children having fun like this?
It’s amazing how children can create a great game out of something as simple as a few bubbles and it’s a mean spirited person that doesn’t want children to have fun. However making the bubbles requires an amount of detergent added to water and it’s the detergent that’s the concern.
For those with caravans and motorhomes it’s not much of a problem, unless they have a fabric awning, but for tents and folding campers the detergent could impact on the performance of any water proofing treatment on their holiday home. This could lead to leaks, which could spoil someone’s holiday. So we ask children to blow bubbles away from – and ideally down-wind from – any tents and awnings.
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