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Flashlight Fun

Materials

• Scissors
• Uninflated balloons (one red, one yellow, and one blue)
• Flashlight
• Rubber bands

Directions

1. Cut the rounded ends from the balloons.
2. Stretch one balloon end over a flashlight and hold it in place with a rubber band.
3. In a darkened room, have your child shine the flashlight on the ceiling or a wall to see the colorful light.
4. Change colors.
5. Layer balloons to see how mixing the colors creates new ones: yellow over blue to make green, red over yellow to make orange, and so on.
6. If you have three flashlights, place a different color on each.
7. Shine two or more colors on the same spot to create a new color.