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Kaleidoscope
What
you need:
- Mirror board
- Coloured paper
- Tracing paper
- Thin clear
plastic
- Sequins
- Tape
- Card
- Pencil
What to do:
- Cut three strips
of mirror board to the same size.*
- Tape the three
mirrors in a triangle, mirror facing inwards.
- Stand the tube
on its end and draw round it onto a piece of card.
- Cut out the
triangle and pierce a hole in the middle of it with a pencil.
- Tape it to the
end of the tube.
- Draw around the
tube again on a sheet of clear plastic and some tracing paper.
- Cut them out and
place one on top of the other. Tape along two of the sides.
- Fill it with a
few sequins and tape along the other side.
- Tape it to the
other end of the tube, tracing paper facing out.
- Cover it in
attractive paper.
- Look through the
hole and see the pattern!
Difficulty: average
*see bright ideas
by clicking the light bulb
Please e-mail
your craft ideas to: craft@craftforkids.co.uk
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What do you call an
instrument that's always bumping into things?
A collide-oscope
Book: Looking into
kaleidoscopes Author:
Pat Tern
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