Making a transparent JPanel over a JFrame

I am new to graphics in java and I am currently working on a game. Essentially, there are rising bubbles, and the user has to pop them by moving the mouse over them.

I have already made an animation on the JFrame and I need to add a JPanel for a MouseMotionListener on top. However, when I add the JPanel on top of the JFrame (even with the setOpaque to false) it still does not let me see my animation underneath. You can see my code below. If you find coding errors, please let me know.

I have two solutions in mind, either animate in JPanel (which I don't know how to do), or make the JPanel transparent.

Game Class:

public class Game extends JPanel{

  public static final int WINDOW_WIDTH = 600;
  public static final int WINDOW_HEIGHT = 400;

  private boolean insideCircle = false;
  private static boolean ifPaused = false;
  private static JPanel mainPanel;
  private static JLabel statusbar;
  private static int clicks = 0;
  //Creates a Bubbles object Array
  Bubbles[] BubblesArray = new Bubbles[5];

  public Game() {

    //initializes bubble objects
     for (int i = 0; i < BubblesArray.length; i++)
       BubblesArray[i] = new Bubbles();
     }

public void paint(Graphics graphics) {

  //makes background white
   graphics.setColor(Color.WHITE);
   graphics.fillRect(0, 0, WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT);

   //paints square objects to the screen
   for (Bubbles aBubblesArray : BubblesArray) {
     aBubblesArray.paint(graphics);
   }
}

public void update() {

 //calls the Square class update method on the square objects
 for (Bubbles aBubblesArray : BubblesArray) aBubblesArray.update();
}

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
     statusbar = new JLabel("Default");
     mainPanel = new JPanel();
     mainPanel.setOpaque(false);
     mainPanel.setBackground(new Color(0,0,0,0));
     mainPanel.setVisible(true);
     mainPanel.addMouseMotionListener(new MouseAdapter() {
       @Override
        public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {
          statusbar.setText(String.format("Your mouse is at %d, %d", e.getX(), e.getY()));
          }

       public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e){
         ifPaused = true;
        }   

        public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e){
        ifPaused = false;
         }

     });

     Game game = new Game();
    JFrame frame = new JFrame();

    frame.add(game);
     frame.add(mainPanel);



   frame.add(statusbar, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
   frame.setVisible(true);
   frame.setSize(WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT);
   frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
   frame.setTitle("Bubble Burst");
   frame.setResizable(false);
   frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);

   while (true) {
      if (!ifPaused){
       game.update();
       game.repaint();
       Thread.sleep(5);
      }
   }
}    
}