How to make a kaleidoscope with your own hands

Some types of crafts for children is enoughDifficult, but there are many activities that allow you to spend time with your child fun and profitably. To create interesting and beautiful design items useful items that are usually in a hurry to get rid of, not seeing them in particular good. But even from the sleeves of a roll of paper towels or a piece of wide PVC pipe you can make amazing things, such as a kaleidoscope. Any parent will be happy to help their baby turn what is considered garbage into a bright hack, because not only the process, but also the result will bring inconceivable pleasure to the whole family.

How to make a kaleidoscope from a roll of paper towels

Many adults remember what kind of emotion fireworkHe gave them a game with a glass tube, inside which extraordinary drawings were magically folded. These are multi-colored fragments reflected on the inner mirror edges. But how to make a kaleidoscope at home with your child? Very simple. It is enough to keep a cardboard sleeve from paper towels or a piece of plastic pipe, get multicolored beads from my mother's handmade needle box and stock up on several tools that are easy to find in almost every home.

Necessary materials

Before you make a kaleidoscope of paper or plastic pipe, you need to gather in one place the materials necessary for work.

What you need:

• sleeve from a roll of paper towels;
• ruler;
• multi-colored translucent beads;
• Scotch;
• glue;
• glue gun;
• cover from a transparent plastic container;
• marker;
• scissors;
• aluminium foil;
• empty breakfast cereal boxes;
• colored paper for scrapbooking or a bright self-adhesive film.

Kaleidoscope Master Class

Now it is time to learn what you need to do to make a bright toy for yourself and your children. To do this, consistently do the following:

1. Put the sleeve vertically on the transparent cover from the plastic container and circle the bottom of the marker.
2. Cut a piece of plastic to fit inside the end of the roll.
3. Наносим небольшое количество клея вдоль inner edge of the paper. Then move the plastic circle inside the roll so that the glue holds it in place. (At this step, you need to be careful, it is better not to trust the work with the glue gun to the child, since it is very hot).
4. When the glue hardens, we start pouring translucent beads inside the future kaleidoscope.
5. Cut off the second small plastic circle,using the same method as for the first. We place it inside the pipe on top of the beads. Use the ruler to push the circle inside the roll, if necessary.
6. We put the ruler inward to measure the distance between the second plastic circle and the upper end of the kaleidoscope.
7. We cut out 3 paper strips 2.5 cm wide from a box of cereals for breakfast. The distance we measured will be long.
8. Wrap 3 cardboard strips with aluminum foil with the reflective side out. Use the tape to hold the aluminum foil in place.
9. We glue tape strips of cardboard so that they form a triangle.
10. We push the triangle inside the tube like thisso that it is on top of the second plastic circle. If the product is not very tight in the tube, it should be secured in place with tape.
11. Cut another circle out of the plastic box lid to close the upper part of the kaleidoscope with it. Glue with glue.
12. Cut a piece of paper for scrapbooking or a self-adhesive film of such a size that it can be wrapped around a roll. Glue the paper to the tube.

The toy is ready!Now you know how to make a kaleidoscope of scrapbooking paper, sleeves from a roll of paper towels, beads and foil. Direct it to the light source and twist to see the colored reflections of the beads inside.

How to make a kaleidoscope of mirrors

The best optical effect will be if insteadFoils use real mirrors, and replace transparent plastic with Petri dishes. Before you make a kaleidoscope in this way, you need to find a mirror and a place where it can be exactly cut. Then three identical pieces of the mirror are fastened together by the shiny side inwards, according to the same principle as the strips of cardboard. For the base fit a piece of PVC pipe.

Design Features

Чтобы удержать зеркала на месте, используют cords of foam. On the one hand, they sometimes make a plastic cap with a hole through which you can look at the colored patterns inside the tube. There are several ways to make bright details for a kaleidoscope of which the pattern is made. The easiest one: draw intertwining lines with multi-colored permanent markers on the Petri dish. Beads can be replaced with beads or small pieces of glass. The technology is quite simple. Do not be afraid to create kaleidoscopes. Enjoy the results of your children and enjoy yourself!