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Make a kaleidoscope to view beautiful coloured shapes
Kaleidoscope means 'observer of beautiful shapes' and it has been a fascinating & fun toy to many for over...
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Make your own homemade telescope
Fancy becoming an astronomer and find out more about the stars in our galaxy? It is quite easy to...
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Make your own homemade periscope
The most common example of the use of a 'periscope' is in submarines. The commanders of submarines use the...
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Build your own camera out of a shoe box
All cameras work by focusing light onto a light sensitive material called 'film'. In this science experiment, let's build...
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Make a magnifying glass with a pin and paper only
A pinhole in an index card can act like a magnifying glass, helping your eyes to focus on a...
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Make colours vanish to white by a spinning colour wheel
A rainbow is produced by the sunlight shining onto droplets of moisture after rains. The rainbow take the form...
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Learn more about motion pictures by making a flip book
Motion pictures work by rapidly projecting a series of still drawings or photographs recorded on film in sequence onto...
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Have fun with a curvy fun house mirror
People have a lot of fun looking at themselves in curvy fun house mirrors at amusement parks. You can...
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Learn how motion pictures work by making a ‘Thaumatrope’
We all love going to the movie theater to watch the latest cartoon or movie, but did you ever...
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Make some gears out of cardboard to learn how they work
'Gears' are special toothed wheels of varying sizes that work together in a set. Gears can work together to...
