A Cool Light Experiment and Science Game For Kids

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Light Experiment

A cool light experiment - one of the neat science games for kids, kids activities games and learning games for kids.

Need: a white handkerchief and a lamp

If the lamp has a shade on it, remove it and set it aside.

Get your handkerchief and stand about 5 feet away from the light bulb.

Open up the handkerchief and hold it up so you're looking through the handkerchief to see the light bulb.

You should see light in the center with shades of yellow and orange appearing around the center light.

You have a cool starburst!

Try it again with a tissue and see what color patterns you see!

Write down the colors you saw when you used the handkerchief and when you used the tissue.

Do you see the same colors? Or are different colors present depending on which one you are holding up to the light?

Try using a colored handkerchief or tissue. Do you see more or less colors? Is it easier to see with the white or the colors?

What colors are predominant using the colored tissue or handkerchief?

Then try putting a white tissue on top of the white handkerchief and hold up to the light.

Are you seeing any colors? Which ones?

Or do the two on top of each other set up a barrier where the colors are harder to see?

Then put a colored tissue with a white handkerchief, and then a colored handkerchief with a colored tissue and see what color combinations appear!