Optical Science and Art Experiment Kit

This kit deals with the sciences of light, optics, and visual perception, which find applications in disciplines ranging from physics to psychology to painting. By witnessing optical illusions that involve shapes, color, depth, and scale, and learning how optical illusions relate to artists' techniques, children can engage with the complexity of optical science and art in accessible and entertaining ways.

Among the 24 experiments in the kit, children will:

• experiment with light and the color spectrum by building a color wheel, a fiber optic peacock, and diffraction glasses
• build a camera obscura and pinhole glasses to learn how the eye and a camera are similar and different
• experiment with lens and light refraction
• use 3D glasses and an Ames room model to experiment with spatial vision and depth perception

Kit is accompanied by a 48-page, full-color experiment manual.

Ages 8 and up.