Saturday, August 10, 2013

how to make 3D lens camera

Pop one lens out of a pair of 3D glasses. Set your glasses aside.Place a green piece of cardstock on the top of the camera lens.Place a green piece of cardstock on the top of the camera lens.Do the same to the other end of the paper.Use a ruler and pencil to connect the two pencil marks, then cut along the line with scissors.Wrap the smaller strip of green paper around the camera lens. Tape the ends of the paper together with clear tape.Remove the green ring from the camera lens and place it on top of the 3D glasses lens. Trace around the outside of the lens with a pencil.Cut along the pencil line so the 3D glasses lens is now the same shape as your green ring. Tape the glasses lens onto the end of the ring. Put the ring back on the camera.Put your camera on a tripod in front of a white computer screen.Turn the camera lens until the white screen in the camera’s viewfinder turns dark.Hold a clear plastic object, like a cup, in front of the camera lens. Take a picture! Wow. Look at the pretty colours!Tip: To make the film strip frame, you need black construction paper and an exacto knife (to cut out the small rectangles). Glue your photos to the paper, then amaze your friends and family with your colourful photography!Print your pictures and show them off in a film strip frame.

Saturday, May 25, 2013

how to make a face sculpture

Place the Styrofoam tray on a table. To make the monkey’s eyes and forehead, use an old egg carton. Cut off the ends of the carton and place them side by side so they fit in the tray. Now cut out a rectangular piece of each carton’s top so the two egg cups inside are visible. For the mouth, place a Styrofoam bowl upside down on the tray.To make the nose, cut off the bottom half of a Styrofoam cup, but leave a point on one side. Place the nose, pointy side up, just under the eyes. Make the monkey’s cheeks by rolling up two plastic bags and placing them beside the nose.Roll green modelling clay between your hands until it is the shape of a long skinny worm. Place the skinny piece of clay above the monkey’s eyes. Roll up two more pieces of clay and place them around each eye.Use your fingers to press the modelling clay into the Styrofoam. This keeps the clay secure and gives it more texture.Place red modelling clay around the Styrofoam bowl. Again, use your fingers to press the clay into the Styrofoam.Keep placing modelling clay all around the monkey’s face, like in the photo.Place the monkey’s face on an old towel, one that you’re not worried about getting dirty. Gather together the three spray bottles and the paintbrush.Lay four strips of toilet paper, lengthwise, over the monkey’s face.To add colour to the toilet paper, spray yellow water in the middle of the monkey’s face, spray red around the yellow, then green all around the edges.Dab the paintbrush gently onto the monkey’s face. See how the toilet paper sticks to the modelling clay and the monkey’s face starts to pop out?Add five layers of toilet paper in total. Place the second layer of toilet paper horizontally. Place the third layer lengthwise, and so forth. Once you do five layers, set aside the monkey’s face to dry—it will take all night.Once the monkey’s face is dryPop the monkey’s face right off the Styrofoam tray, then trim along the edges of the face with scissors. It looks amazing!Make more animal face sculptures, like an ostrich...or the king of all animals, a lion! Roar!

how to make banana mation

Place the banana in the tape roll so it can stand on its own.Stack the books about an arm’s length away from the banana and set your camera on the books.Adjust the height of your camera by adding or removing the books so you don’t see the roll of tape.Take a picture.Carefully peel back the banana peel just a little bit.Take another picture!Peel the banana a little bit more.Take another picture and repeat the process until the banana is peeled.Once the banana is completely peeled, take a bite. Yummy! Now take a picture.Take another bite.Take another picture.Repeat this process until there’s no banana left.now you have banana mation 

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

blow up a balloon and tie a knot at the bottom.place the container  in an empty yogurt container. use the masking tape to tape the balloon to the container.place few tissue papers on the balloon. use the paint brush to spread the white glue and water mixture over the tissue paper and ballon.cover the entire ballon with tissue paper. Set aside to dry.to make the flashlights handle

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Wrap black duct tape all the way around an empty glue stick. Be sure to cover all the yellow parts!To make a circular window for the spaceship, set the glue stick on a small piece of tinfoil and use a pencil to trace a circle.Cut around the pencil line, then fold the circle in half. Cut a semi-circle on the straight edge. Unfold the circle, then glue the little circular window onto the spaceship.Cut two wings for the spaceship out of construction paper. Tape them onto the glue stick.Tip: Glue thin stripes of tinfoil onto the spaceship for decoration.Add a cool top to your spaceship! Unscrew the cap from the top of the glue stick, then glue the top of an empty glue bottle onto the cap.Cover the spaceship top with tinfoil and black tape. To make an antenna, put a small ball of tinfoil on the top of a toothpick. Stick the toothpick into the glue bottle top and cover the toothpick with black tape.Screw the cap back onto the glue stick. Look at that amazing spaceship!To make an astronaut, unbend a paper clip and stick one end through the middle of a pencil grip. (An equal length of paperclip should be on either side of the pencil grip; these are the astronaut’s arms.) Wrap masking tape around one end of the pencil grip, then draw a face on the tape with a black marker.Now for a helmet! Wrap a thin strip of masking tape around the bottom of the astronaut’s head. Do the same to the top. Make sure you don’t cover the face! Stick a small circular tab of clear floor protector over the astronaut’s face.Get creative and the astronaut with a colourful spacesuit, antenna, or whatever you like.Put the astronaut inside the spaceship. Lower the astronaut by turning the bottom of the glue stick. Screw on the top of the spaceship.

how to make a flying fish

Bend the triangular part of a coat hanger into a big, round loop.Now bend the hook part of the coat hanger into a straight line.Wrap duct tape around the straight handle.Now it’s time for your chip bags. Cut along the crease lines to open up two jumbo chip bags. Clean the grease off the silver part with soap and water, and then scotch tape the two bags together.Turn it over so the silver side of the chip bag is facing down. Place the bottom of the wire loop onto the bottom middle edge of the wrapper.Now fold and tape the other side of the chip bag until the wire hoop is completely covered in wrapper.Now take your small chip bags and cut along the crease lines to open them up. Wash off the grease on the silver side of the bags.Cut the chip bags horizontally into one-inch strips.Now tape these strips to the inside of your wind sock at the back. Go all the way around the windsock until you have no more strips. You can add as many strips as you like!Make fish eyes for your windsock by cutting out two circles from a piece of white paper and colour in the eyeball with a black marker.Tape eyes onto the windsock with scotch tape.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

how to make a water bottle waterfall

With a marker, draw a big rectangle on one side of a water bottle.Find a spot on the rectangle and poke a pencil through the plastic. When you’ve made a large enough hole to fit scissors through, cut the rectangle out.Repeat the above steps on the rest of the empty water bottles.The plunger is the stand for the waterfall. Find a spot on the plunger about five inches from the bottom. Angle the bottle downward so water can flow out of it.Clip the binder clip onto the bottle and use duct tape to attach one of the binder clip arms to the plunger handle.Place a bowl where the water will pour out.The next bottle will go above the first bottle. Make sure it’s aiming into the first bottle so the water flows from one bottle to another. Clip the bottle and duct tape it into place onto the plunger handle.Add the third bottle above the second bottle. Again, make sure it’s aiming into the second bottle. Clip the bottle and duct tape it into place. Repeat this as many times as you can until you’ve run out of room on the plunger handle.Time to test the fountain! Pour some water into the top bottle. If the water spills anywhere, just adjust the position of the bottles and try again.Once everything is working, go ahead and decorate it. You can use more recycled bottles, hangers or whatever you like!