Hands-on light and sound activities and demonstrations for pre-school children, and their parents or grand parents.
One hour
$5.00 per child.
Suitable for Pre-school children
This special program includes demonstrations and hands-on activities for pre-school children, and their parents or grandparents.
Things they can hear include:
- Different ways of producing sound
(including amazing singing metal rods)
- An antique music box,
- Sounds made by rare musical instruments (including jews harp,
nose flute, musical saw, Stroh viol, etc.)
- Music made by waving your hands about in the air (the Theremin).
- Loudness and care of ears (fog horn and use of ear plugs)
- Demonstration of antique hearing
aids
- Fun with loudspeakers, tuning forks, and the Zube Tube.
Things they can look at include
- How our eyes detect light (binocular vision, blind spot, etc.)
- Amazing colour after-images
- Shadow
puppets
- Moving pictures in a Zoetrope and a real Mutoscope
- Beautiful images in a Kaleidoscope,
- 3D pictures in a Stereoscope,
- A periscope; and look into an infinity mirror
- Try the mirror writing challenge
- and the Famous Invisible
Box