Kid Kleen has a great concept here with Bath Blizzard. A bubble maker for the bath tub! Awesome idea. The component has a little fan inside it to blow the bubbles into the tub. My kids love the bubblemakers they see outdoors so imagine how exciting an ‘in house’ bubble maker sounded to them and me too! I take products at their word. I was ready for a blizzard of bubbles. My kids couldn’t wait to take a bath the day it arrived. Bath Blizzard can hang on your faucet in the bath or can be suctioned to the side of the tub. I was excited too. I figured that any time you have constant bubbles it’s got to be better than the bubble evaporation that usually comes within the first five minutes of the kids in the bath with the regular bubble bath. I was set to love it.

But I didn’t love it. Or rather I didn’t love the process. I’m the kind of mom who is exhausted by bath time. The last thing I want to do after I’ve made dinner, washed dishes , overseen the picking up of the living room and the dining room, is to do additional work. Bath Blizzard was work. I was immediately reminded of trying to learn to drive in a 1973 Volkswagen camper where I watched my grandmother slap the dashboard, jiggle the gear shift and say a prayer to get the engine to turn and the thing to move. This is why I have a 2002 Toyota Corolla: you turn the key, it goes. I’m the kind of mom that really likes it when you press the button and whatever is supposed to happen, happens.

If you get one of these make sure you have 4 C batteries on hand as I seriously disappointed my kids on Day 1 by not having C batteries. On Day 2 we followed the instructions that came with the package and couldn’t get it to work. On Day 3 we followed the directions that some guy put on YouTube. On Day 4 we gave up on the bubble bath that came with it and started experimenting. On Days 2-4 we had bath flurries. It gave us hope.

My kids were troopers through out. They kind of took the whole thing as a mini science project. We would get this to work if it killed us. I credit myself for trying Nature’s Gate Herbal Shampoo on Day 5 and continually rubbing the vent in front of the Bath Blizzard. That did it. Voila! Bubbles! Bubbles galore! Eureka we found it! A veritable blizzard--for a few minutes.

My kids liked it—which of course is what matters, right? I still adore the concept and I’m sure they’ll get the kinks out of it—which could be as simple as rewriting the instructions. But unless your kids are fairly self sufficient (my kids took over rubbing it to get it to work) this isn’t a toy where you can press a button and walk away. It requires time and energy from mom that more than likely, she doesn’t have.