Rm 32s Kaleidescopes

Yesterday Room 32 made Kaleidoscopes. We were donated the sets to make them by a company who didn't need them anymore. The set came with:

• 4 different sized cardboard tubes, one tall, one medium, one tiny slit, and one white one to hold the rest in place.
• Assorted beads for inside the kaleidoscope.
• 3 glass lenses, one frosted, one clear, and one small one for the eyepiece.
• Coloured paper for decorating.
• 3 mirrors and foam packing, also for the inside.
• Black fittings for the eyepiece and connectives.

Here is how you make them...

1. Take the medium sized cardboard tube and fit one of the black fittings (the one with only the rim) into the bottom of it.
2. Put the frosted lens into the bottom of the tube.
3. Add the tiny cardboard slit into the tube, then add the beads that you want in your kaleidoscope.
4. After you add the beads, add the clear lens on top, then set the tube aside.
5. Get the longest tube and slide the white cardboard pipe onto the bottom of it, then glue it in place.
6. Once the glue has dried, add the other black fitting (the other one with only the rim) onto the top of the white cardboard tube and fit the medium tube (from steps 1-4) on from underneath.
7. Get the 3 mirrors and tape them together in a triangular prism shape.
8. Then add the foam packing around the mirrors.
9. Insert the mirrors into the tube and put the small lens on top.
10. Insert the black fitting with the little hole in the middle and you have completed your kaleidoscope!

View the from inside of the kaleidoscope 

Outside of the kaleidoscope

By Holly and Gretta