Product

Flashlight

  Physics concept: Optics

  Age Group: 5 and up

What is it?  

  This toy is essentially a flashlight. There is a power button at the end of the handle for the white light that the flashlight emits. Above the light bulb is a section that will fit cylindrical inserts. The flashlight comes with various  cylinders that have differently shaped holes. Each hole corresponds to a clear plastic shape.

  Once the correct shape is placed in a cylinder and that cylinder is placed in the handle the light is affected in different ways. Some of the clear plastic shapes are just picture projections. One is a prism that causes the white light of the flashlight to become rainbow colored.

Inspiration

  I got the idea to do this from a kaleidoscope. I wanted to do something optics-based and I know that kids like colorful things.