However it is called, I believed it was a recent invention BUT NO - to my great surprise it seems that it existed as a game since ancient times! (For such things I love the human species - plagues, disasters, pandemics, but bubbles bubbles!!!)

We do not know which clever child first invented this phase, but it is said that there is an ancient Etruscan vase in the Louvre on which people are depicted blowing bubbles!

The painting by Sardent is fully prophetic because indeed the first mass-produced bubble games were in the form of pipes! (like smoking pipes)

Feel a little how these "innocent" bubble games managed to become popular BECAUSE THEY WERE A WAY FOR CHILDREN TO PRETEND TO SMOKE AND IMITATE ADULTS!

And our conspiracy theory - What if the bubble game was ultimately created by the tobacco industry to "prepare" their future customers ???? WHAT ARE THEY HIDING FROM US??!?!1

Anyway, the first patents for bubble games were filed around 1920! In fact, in 1918 John L. Gilchrist had already made the first commercial pipes for bubbles!

From 1940 onwards, complete sets of bubble games started to be released in beautiful colors. They included not only the wands and pipes but also soap bars and plates to make your own soap bubbles!