For Kids

You’ve come to the right place to learn about my children’s books and school visits, as well as tips and fun facts about my favorite sweet treat, bubble gum!

I love bubble gum so much, I declared the First Friday in February Bubble Gum Day! Find out how you can celebrate Bubble Gum Day at your school, and raise money for charity, too.

I’ve always loved chewing bubble gum – I still do!

Here are some tips for blowing a giant bubble:

1. Start with at least 2 pieces of gum, more if you can fit them in your mouth.

2. Try this indoors. Wind can pop your bubble, and if it’s too cold, the gum won’t stretch.

3. Chew the gum until all the sugar is gone (sorry!) and it feels soft.

4. Flatten the gum by using your tongue to push it against the roof of your mouth and your front teeth.

5. With the wad of gum just behind your front teeth, make an “O” with your lips and start pushing the gum out with your tongue.

6. Pull your tongue back out of the way. Blow slooowly and evenly.

7. Get ready to measure your giant bubble!

Try a Bubble-Inside-A-Bubble:

1. Follow steps 1-6 above, but stop blowing before the bubble gets too big.

2. Using your teeth and tongue, close the bubble’s opening in your mouth.

3. Use the wad of gum that’s still in your mouth to blow another bubble inside the first one.

How cool is that?

Can you do three?

I can!

Did You Know?

• The first bubble gum was invented in 1928 by Walter Diemer, who was working for the Fleer gum company.
  
  

• The biggest bubble ever, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was 22 inches in diameter, 1 1/2 times the size of a large pizza.
  
  

• Only 2 percent of North American fourth-graders can blow a double bubble, a bubble inside a bubble.
  
  

• A "triple whammy" is a bubble inside a bubble inside a bubble.
  

• Sixty to 70 percent of bubble gum is sugar.
  
  

• Studies have shown that chewing gum actually helps people concentrate.
  
  

• Chewing gum burns about 11 calories per hour.
  
  

• Scientists found a 9,000-year- old wad of chewing gum in Sweden.
  
  

• If you swallow your gum, it won't stay in your stomach for seven years. It ends up in the same place the rest of the undigested portion of your food does.
  
  

• Humans are the only animal that chews gum.
  

• Detectives can find criminals by comparing their gum to their dental records.
  
  

• To get gum off your clothes, rub ice over it, then scrape it off.
  
  

• Chewing gum on an airplane will keep your ears from popping. Chewing gum makes your saliva glands produce 250 percent more saliva, so you swallow more and that balances the pressure in your head.
  
  

• North American kids chew about 40 million pieces of bubble gum every day, 1.6 million every hour, 26,000 every minute or 444 pieces per second.

If you like bubble gum, you’ll love my new book!

Lester Fizz: Bubble Gum Artist
Illustrated by Thor Wickstrom

Lester doesn’t quite fit in his colorful family of artists. Then, he discovers his own unique talent in an unexpected medium. Will he finally earn the recognition he longs for, or will he blow his chance?