Let us light up your night!
These quick and easy necklaces are always a huge hit at any event we visit. As a quick "make and take" this project can be completed in 20 minutes as a craft or preceded by a lesson in electricity, optical properties of glass and plastic and the differences between mixing colours of paint (Red, Yellow and Blue) and mixing colours of light (Red, Green and Blue). The expanded, hands-on experimental science lesson is approximately 75-90 minutes.
Follow-Up Activity: After we leave, we encourage educators and camp leaders to build a creative story-telling activity into the subsequent days. It could be an oral story telling of “how I earned my amulet” or a written storybook about the adventure. Or both.
This program was developed and is run in partnership with Mindful Makers. It is a favourite at school STEAM faires, classrooms as the days get longer in the fall, and community summer picnics -- especially ones that last into the twilight of the evening.
Prices begin at $349/group*
Ontario Curriculum Intersections:
NOTE: This program uses CR2032 button cell batteries. As of September 2022 Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) has advised that children under the age of 6 not do projects such as this unless the batteries are secured with a screw-locked door. This is not viable for this project so we’ve raised the minimum age of this activity to 6+. If you really want to do this activity with younger students then we will require parents to sign and return an awareness waiver.
This program can be adapted to emphasize or demonstrate learning objectives in the following broad categories:
Visual Arts
Drawing on clear surfaces
Use of positive and negative space
Science & Engineering
Optical clarity and demonstration of how light travels in a solid medium
How and why we 'see' using light
How light behaves as it moves from one medium to another (plastic to air)
Simple electrical circuits, polarity and voltage
*All programs are subject to HST. Locations outside of Waterloo Region also require a travel fee.
2 Classes: $698+HST (~55 students)
3 Classes: $950+HST (~82 students)
4 Classes: $1125+HST (~110 students)