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Simple Kids Crafts is a video blog dedicated to reviving the old art of handicrafts for people of all ages. How do oil spills affect aquatic plants? A Miniature Solar Panel Fire Water Balloon Make Clouds in a Bottle Secret Messages Make a Rocket Make a Hovercraft Make an Anemometer Make a Sundial Make a Radio Make an Electroscope Make a Stethoscope Make a Telescope Make a Periscope Make a Camera Bending a stream of water with a comb Lighting a bulb without electricity Simple Motor Cotton Ball Rocks? Salt-Absorbing Art and Science Color Changing Glue Art Baking Soda Clay Oil Sun Catcher Grow a Pineapple Plant! Bead Bowls Wow, what an Air-Gun Funny Diver ! Water boils without fire Ice with Boiling Water Water that boils instantly Water boils in a Paper Pot Soap-driven Boat Pulse Moves Pin Pretty Garden—without Plants Picture made by Fire Magic Pictures Dancing Doll Smoke Goes Down The Dancing Coupl The Umbrella Dance Magic Butterfly Colorful

Make a Camera

Cameras have become a standard item in many households. You must have seen a camera somewhere, sometime. But do you know, what is a camera? What is inside it? How does it take photographs?  The most basic type of camera is the pinhole camera, which one can construct from a cigar box, aluminum foil, and sheet film. In this activity, we'll learn how to make a simple pinhole camera (we call it a pinhole scope) and how it works.  A pinhole camera does not have a viewfinder; neither does it have any control of aperture or shutter time. One has to do them manually. But  it cost so little. The major difficulty is in fixing the photographic paper/film and developing it. If you think your circumstances do not permit you to experiment with photographic paper or film, you can still see how the image is formed in such a camera. A very simple description to make such a pinhole camera is provided at the following website, (don't be put off by the brand name of the container

Smoke Goes Down !

Articles Required : An empty card­board shoe-box, two chimneys of kerosene lamp, can­dle, cigarette and matchstick. Whenever you burn something the smoke moves upwards. Isn't it? Now, how would you react if you're asked to make it go downwards? Will you be able to do it? Well, once you try the experiment explained below, you'd naturally quip after that "Oh, it was so easy!" Make two holes in your shoe-box as shown in the figure here and fix the chimneys in both of them. If you can't find such chimneys, you can use even the empty talcum powder tins after cutting their tops and bot­toms. Having done this, remove the shoe-box cover and put a burning candle just below the left chimney. Now replace the cover and paste cello-tape on the joint of box and its cover to restrict air entry from the slit. Now, if you light a cigarette and bring it on top of the second chim­ney, something interesting would happen. The cigarette smoke, instead of going upwar

The Dancing Couple

Articles Required : Two long thin nee­dles, a piece of card­board, a pair of scissors,kfive pieces of cork (one big, four small) and camphor. Make a figure of a dancing couple on the cardboard. Cut it along its outline, and stick it on the bigger cork with glue. Once it's firmly stuck, pierce two needles into the big cork making a 90° angle, to each other. Now on their four ends, insert small corks. Try to make the base as compact as possible. But in any case its diame­ter should never exceed 5 cm. Stick camphor grains on the sides of four outer corks with the help of pins and place it on water surface. If it has been made as described above, the cardboard couple will turn around and move about—as if the couple has begun its waltz. In order to have a flawless perfor­mance, you must remove all traces of oil from the container and corks. You can do this by washing these articles well with hot water mixed with soda.

The Umbrella Dance !

Articles Required : An umbrella with a "U" handle, a bottle in which umbrella handle can be inserted, string and a piece of chalk. First rub the chalk on the string. Tie this string loosely to two points of opposite walls of a room. Now insert the umbrella handle in the bottle," and try to balance the bottle on this string. Once you've found the balancing point, your job is over. Now as you give it a light jerk it will start dancing like an acrobat—going up and down in a funny manner

Magic Butterfly !

Articles Required : A thin cardboard sheet, two small coins, adhesive tape, one broom-straw. What about having a 'magic but­terfly' that can sit on your fingertip without any support? Try making it today itself because it's very simple. First of all, cut out a cardboard piece in the shape of a butterfly. Now paste a white paper on it and paint in pretty 'butterfly' colours. Now paste a coin each under butter­fly's two wings as shown in the fig­ure. Also paste the broom straw right in its centre with its ends pro­truding a little from its mouth and tail. Well, your 'magic' butterfly is ready. If the coins have been pasted in such a way that its centre of grav­ity falls on the top of its head, it can be balanced on the tip of your fore­finger very easily to enchant every­body present around you.

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Kids Projects at Home

Simple Kids Crafts is a video blog dedicated to reviving the old art of handicrafts for people of all ages. How do oil spills affect aquatic plants? A Miniature Solar Panel Fire Water Balloon Make Clouds in a Bottle Secret Messages Make a Rocket Make a Hovercraft Make an Anemometer Make a Sundial Make a Radio Make an Electroscope Make a Stethoscope Make a Telescope Make a Periscope Make a Camera Bending a stream of water with a comb Lighting a bulb without electricity Simple Motor Cotton Ball Rocks? Salt-Absorbing Art and Science Color Changing Glue Art Baking Soda Clay Oil Sun Catcher Grow a Pineapple Plant! Bead Bowls Wow, what an Air-Gun Funny Diver ! Water boils without fire Ice with Boiling Water Water that boils instantly Water boils in a Paper Pot Soap-driven Boat Pulse Moves Pin Pretty Garden—without Plants Picture made by Fire Magic Pictures Dancing Doll Smoke Goes Down The Dancing Coupl The Umbrella Dance Magic Butterfly Colorful

Fire Water Balloon

Materials The materials required for this science fair project: - 1 matchbox - 1 candle - 1 yellow colored balloon - 1 blue colored balloon - Half a cup of water Procedure 1. For this experiment, the independent variable is whether the balloon is filled with water or not. The dependent variable is what happens to the balloon when it is placed above the lit candle. This is determined by observing the balloon. The constants (control variables) are how much the balloon is inflated and the amount of water in the balloon. 2. Inflate the yellow colored balloon and tie it up. 3. Pour half a cup of water into the blue colored balloon before inflating it to the same size as the yellow color balloon and tie it up. 4. Light up the candle. Be careful when using match sticks to avoid causing fires, or burning yourself. 5. Hold the yellow colored balloon on top of the lit candle. Observe and record what happens. 6. Hold the blue colored balloon on top of