A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to the phi phenomenon and persistence of vision.
Instead of string to cut and measure and untangle, we made our thaumatrope easy with a stick.
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| Crescent Moon & Star Thaumatrope by A Crafty Arab |
If you have a 3 inch circle punch like I do, you can make them tons of the circles ahead of time and let them go at it. You can substitute straws for our use of the un-sharpened orange pencil above, so this craft can be done on the cheap for birthday parties, or keep a little baggie of circles, straws and pencils for long restaurant waits.
Some silly ideas to try on your thaumatropeis include a lady and her hat, a baby and it's bottle, a car and it's driver, etc.
However you adapt this, it's guaranteed for hours of fun. At least in our household!
Supplies
2 3inch circles of cardstock. The thicker the better.
Pencil
Colored pencil, or crayons, or pens, etc
Extra pencil, straw or stick for swirling
Tape
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| Crescent Moon & Star Thaumatrope by A Crafty Arab |
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| Crescent Moon & Star Thaumatrope by A Crafty Arab |
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| Crescent Moon & Star Thaumatrope by A Crafty Arab |
Color in your moon and star with your pencil.
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| Crescent Moon & Star Thaumatrope by A Crafty Arab |
Glue down your pencil, straw or stick to one of the circles and then use double sided tape or roll up plain tape to put around this. Place your second circle on top of the first circle, making sure you study the locations of your images so they line up.
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| Crescent Moon & Star Thaumatrope by A Crafty Arab |
Kids: Twirl, twirl, twirl! Mothers: Nap, nap, nap! :)
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| Crescent Moon & Star Thaumatrope by A Crafty Arab |
1 comment:
Thanks! We are doing a multicultural presentation with my daughter's 1st grade class, and this was perfect!
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