PPP245: Tactile Toy, Tension Terminator, or Technique Tool?

Here are just a few reasons kids are in love with bubble popper fidget toys:

• • cool shapes and colors!
  • lightweight, easy to carry anywhere
  • endless entertainment – pop all the bubbles on one side, then turn the pad over and pop the bubbles all over again.
  • quiet, yet pleasing sound
  • take it from my student, Andrew, who told me several times that pressing the bubbles was a very “satisfying feeling”
  • fun strategy game
    • Beginner gameplay:
      • take turns pressing as many bubbles in a single row as you like
      • do not jump from one row to another
      • make your opponent pop the last bubble and you are the winner of that round!
      • turn the bubble popper over and play a new round
    • More strategic gameplay:
      • follow the same rules as in beginner gameplay except the bubbles must be adjacent to one another.
      • if your opponent pops one bubble in the center of a row, you can only pop the remaining bubbles on either side of the popped bubble, you cannot pop all the bubbles in that row.