Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Home-made kaleidoscope

Do you have some cereal boxes, a transparent lid, sellotape, and a pair of scissors?

With three small mirrors, you can impress your children with their invaluable helping hands with this delightful kaleidoscope. 

We bought our three mirrors from Hobbycraft.

 Photo1: The ingredients



Photo2:  Use sellotape to secure three mirrors in triangular prism shape. Put some colorful small pieces like paper or beads in the lid, and cover it up with cling film, then secure the cling film on the lid with sellotape.


 Photo3 Use the cereal box to make a tube around the mirrors (the triangular prism). The blue dot is the reflection of small piece of paper.


Photo 4:  Put the tube with mirrors on top of the lid .Secure them together with sellotape.





Photo5 Cut a circle same size as the tube, and then make a small hole the middle. Secure it on the top of the tube. 



Photo 6  Then decorate with some pretty or cool paper. Here is our end result. 










 

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