Measure across one end of the tube as shown, a few millimetres in from the edgeĢ. How to Make The Kaleidoscope Step by Stepġ Measure across one end of the tube as shown, a few millimetres in from the edge.ġ.
Scrap of black card, about 3½ x 3½in (9 x 9cm).Cardboard tube (you can use a toilet paper roll, kitchen roll tube, a Pringles tube, a cardboard roll that a small poster was mailed in… etc).To make this DIY Kaleidoscope craft you will need just a few basic supplies from around the house Kaleidoscopes work by reflecting light, so this is a fun science project for kids, as they think about how the light bumps into the shiny surfaces, changes direction, reflects back and forth and makes the kaleidoscope work – with such cool results. A kaleidoscope (/kəˈlaɪdəskoʊp/) is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces tilted to each other at an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of the mirrors are seen as a regular symmetrical pattern when viewed from the other end, due to repeated reflection (definition from Wikipedia)