Kaleidoscope Making Kit

Make up a 25cm long kaleidoscope whose object chamber is specially designed with a removable cover. Simply change the different trinkets included and make a colour changing kaleidoscope, or a mystic glow kaleidoscope, or a sparkling holographic kaleidoscope, or a snowflake kaleidoscope. You could also put in your favourite trinkets to create your very own style kaleidoscopes. Lots of ideas included and the fun is unlimited. This is a fun science project for the whole family. Contains 1 paper cone, 1 holographic foil, 1 set chamber with removable cover, 3 safety mirrors, 4 bags of different trinkets (glow, holographic, colour and clear transparent), 3 colour filters, 1 eye piece cover, 1 card strip, double adhesive tapes, detailed instructions with fun facts and ideas for making different kaleidoscopes.

A kaleidoscope is a tube of mirrors containing loose colored beads, pebbles or other small colored objects. The viewer looks in one end and light enters the other end, reflecting off the mirrors. Typically there are two rectangular lengthwise mirrors. Setting of the mirrors at 45° creates eight duplicate images of the objects, six at 60°, and four at 90°. As the tube is rotated, the tumbling of the colored objects presents the viewer with varying colors and patterns. Any arbitrary pattern of objects shows up as a beautiful symmetric pattern because of the reflections in the mirrors. A two-mirror model yields a pattern or patterns isolated against a solid black background, while a three-mirror (closed triangle) model yields a pattern that fills the entire field.