Shadow Puppets

Using index cards, brass fasteners and wooden skewers, children make jointed shadow puppets.

Pinhole Camera

This activity appeared like a great way to explore how light, our eyes, and brain simultaneously works together to produce images.
This simple activity also shows some of the interesting things about how our brain takes in information and processes. You can see this best when the image that the pinhole camera shows upside down, how then do we see the world right-side up?