Easter - the only time it’s okay to put all of your Eggs in One Basket.
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Rekindle Creativity this Easter Learn & Earn Offer Inside!
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March 2018
CreativKits’ February issue is hosted by
Instein, the Artsy, Maker, Scientist & Gadgeteer
Table of Contents 1. Make-your-own Easter Basket Introduction Things you will need Instructions Easter Bunny Poem
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2. Build-your-own Spy Periscope 10 Introduction 10/11 Things you will need 12 Instructions 13/14 Some Inspirations 15 3. Paint-your-own Neon Rocks Introduction Things you will need Instructions
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4. Power-your-own Lemon Clock 20 Introduction 20/21 Things you will need 22 Instructions 23/24 Inspirations 25
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Make-your-own Easter Basket
Build-your-own Spy Periscope Art & Craft and Plus Kits
Science, Combo & Plus Kits
Paint-your-own Neon Rocks Art and Craft Combo & Plus Kits
Power-your-own Lemon Clock
Science, & Plus Kit
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Activity 1:
Make-your-own Easter Basket
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Introduction • Knowledge Nugget •
Why Easter Baskets? Easter, a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, is closely associated with the arrival of spring. Easter is observed on the Sunday that follows the first full moon after the vernal equinox, the day on which day and night are the same lengths. Celebrating the return of the sun and the start of the growing season has been important in many cultures for millennia. The tradition of filling Easter baskets with eggs and candy likely originates from the cultural practices of several groups celebrating spring. Scan the bar-code and read more... Do you know what’s the Vernal Equinox? Find out!
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Activity 1:
Make-your-own Easter Basket
Things you will need •
What do you need to make an Easter Basket? Cups
Easter Egg Capsules
Fringe Garland
Easter Eggs Scissors (Not included) Double-sided Tape
Note: Brand, Colour, Packaging and Quantity may differ based on activity requirements and availability.
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Instructions (1/3) •
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Go to website at the link below (or scan code) for original instructions
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nce you have gathered all the material, follow these steps. Make sure your mum or dad is watching over while you do this so that you can reach out to them when you need help. Step1: Get Ready
Gather all the material required and use a flat surface like a table or a bench to do the activity. Keep some tissues or cleaning cloth ready for use in case of spillage.
Step 2: Attach the Handle Cut a length of garland for your handle. Place a piece of double stick tape on the smooth side of each end and attach to your cup as shown in the pictures.
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Activity 1:
Make-your-own Easter Basket
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Step 3: Preparing the Basket Wrap the garland around the cup to measure and cut your first strip. Place a piece of double stick tape on each end, and one in the middle of your strip. Starting just under the rim of the cup, wrap your garland strip around attaching it to the cup, covering over the ends of the handle. Refer to the images below.
Step 4: Covering the Basket Repeat the step 3 until your entire cup is covered. Mine took four strips, each one getting slightly shorter as the cup narrowed. Pull the fringe out of the way (it’s ok if some get stuck!) and place each strip directly under the previous one using the technique above described in Step 3. Refer to the images attached.
Step 5: Decorating the Basket Fluff your fringe and fill with fun things like jelly beans, Easter grass (shred some tissue paper using a scissor) or mini eggs! Your very own MINI Easter Basket is ready!
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Easter Bunny Poem •
Easter Bunny Hugs And Kisses That cute little bunny has hopped all day, delivering baskets for the holiday. His paws are so tired and his nose how it itches, He left you something special to fulfill all your wishes, Lots of cute little Easter bunny hugs and kisses. - Written by Unknown
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Activity 2:
Build-your-own Spy Periscope
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Introduction • Knowledge nuggets •
What is a Periscope? It’s an optical instrument used in land and sea warfare, submarine navigation, and elsewhere to enable an observer to see his surroundings while remaining under cover. The simplest type of periscope consists of a tube at the ends of which are two mirrors, parallel to each other but at 45° to the axis of the tube.
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Activity 2:
Build-your-own Spy Periscope
Things you will need •
What do you need to build your own Periscope? 1 x Small Periscope Template
1 x Large Periscope Template
2 x Mirrors for Large Periscope
6 x Strips of Double Sided Tape
2 x Mirrors for Small Periscope
Glue Stick (Not Included)
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Instructions (1/2) • Information Video •
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ave you ever wanted to peek around a corner without your head poking out? How about peering through your window without people seeing you. In this activity we will show you how to make a super easy periscope that will keep you hidden while you spy! Scan and Learn
How does it work?
Periscopes work by using mirrors to show you an image out of your direct line of sight. It allows you to look past obstructions in your line of view, look around corners, or over walls.
Watch this video to learn how Periscope works.
https://youtu.be/Xp7Qe1R_S6g
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Step 1: Get Ready Gather all the material required and use a flat surface like a table or a bench to do the activity. Step 2: Folding the Periscope Folding these two periscopes is very easy. The method is same for both Small and Large periscopes. We have used Small periscope in these instructions. Fold along the scored lines (dashed lines shown in the picture A). Glue the long edge (marked with dots on the diagram) to the other end in order to form a shape of a box (as shown in diagram B).
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Activity 2:
Build-your-own Spy Periscope Step 3: Adding Mirrors Apply the double sided tape to the back of the mirror (shown in diagram C) and insert it into the slot (shown in the diagram D). Apply pressure to stick the mirrors firmly. Repeat this step with all the mirrors provided.
Step 4: Decorate your Periscope Use pens to decorate or colour it to camouflage for some spying fun (shown in the picture below).
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Instructions (2/2) •
Some Inspirations • Step 5: Make it work To use your new spying periscope, it is advised that you first hide behind something, like a corner, or under a window sill. Place the periscope so that one mirror is eye level with you and you can look through it. Turn the other end, with the mirror facing out, towards what you want to spy on. If you are around a corner, you have to stick it out from around that corner. If you are under a window sill, you have to stick it up over that window sill. After you’ve done this, you will be able to look through the mirror that is eye level with you and see everything happening through the other mirror.
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Activity 3:
Paint-your-own Neon Rocks
Rock Painting is the oldest form of Art! In the beginning, people used to paint on cave walls. These were called as Cave Painting. Cave paintings are paintings on cave walls and ceilings. Usually these paintings were made in prehistoric times. Most cave paintings date from 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. The oldest are from about 32,000 years ago, but scientists still disagree if this dating is correct. Today, there are about 350 caves known which have paintings in them. Many are in France and Spain. The best known are probably the caves of Altamira (in Spain), Lascaux (in France), or Creswell Crags in England.
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Introduction • Knowledge Nugget •
This particular type of rock painting is called as “Mandala” Did you know?
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Activity 3:
Paint-your-own Neon Rocks
Things you will need •
Contents of the Rock Painting Kit are: 1 x White Paint
4 x Neon Paints
4 x Stones
Dotting Tools Paint Brushes
Pencil (Not included)
Ruler (Not included)
You can paint 8 different designs with these simple tools. Amazing!
Cleaning Cloth or Tissues (Not included)
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Instructions Booklet •
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efer to the 22 pages colourful booklet included “Paint your own NEON Stones“ by Katie Cameron and follow the step-by-step instructions. The book includes 8 different designs that you can paint on the rocks. Start with the simple “X-Marks the Dot” and progress to the final “Rock Garden” design. This kit includes 4 stones and you can get more stones from the local market should you wish to do all the designs. Let’s get started!
X-Mark the Dots
Infinity Stone
Triangled
Owl Friend
Spiked Stone Sea Urchin
New Bass Friend
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Rock Garden
Activity 4:
Power-your-own Lemon Clock
Lemons are more powerful than you think - How’s that? You already know that your Toys, Tablets and Torch runs on batteries that need charging. However, do you know that lemons can run some of these devices. They can’t run big toys or gadgets but they are powerful enough to run a basic electronic watch. That’s the power of lemons. Not only lemons, some other fruits and vegetables can also produce enough power to run these gadgets e.g. potatoes. Let’s make a Lemon-powered Clock and also learn how does it work? Let’s get started!
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Introduction • Knowledge Nugget •
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Activity 4:
Power-your-own Lemon Clock
Things you will need •
What do you need to Power-your-own Lemon Clock?
Electronic Watch/ Clock with Black and Red wires.
2 x Copper Plates 2 x Zinc Plates
White Wire
2 x Lemons (Not included)
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Can’t believe that generating power could be this simple!
Instructions (1/2) • Information Video •
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Watch the instruction video to follow this experiment:
https://youtu.be/4pCf2RalbCs
Refer to the a separate instruction booklet provided and follow all steps in the following sequence. If required, ask for help from your mum and dad. Step 1: Get Ready Gather all the material required and use a flat surface like a table or a bench to do the activity. Keep some tissues or cleaning cloth ready for use in case of any spillage. You may need an adult’s help to complete this activity.
Step 2: Setting-up the Experiment Take two lemons and put the plates in the lemons with the hole side up. These holes will be used to connect the wires later. You only need to put the plates about 5 cm inside the lemon. Watch the video for easy reference. Make sure you have put one copper and one zinc plate in each lemon.
Step 3: Connecting the Clock Connect the Black wire coming out of the clock to the Zinc plate of one of the
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Activity 4:
Power-your-own Lemon Clock
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lemons and the Red wire to the copper plate of the other lemon. To connect the wire you can loop them in the holes on the top of the zinc and copper plates. Connect the left-over Copper and Zinc plates using the White wire provided. This should now complete the whole circuit through the Lemons.
Step 4: Set your Clock As soon as you connect the white wire you can see the clock begins to blink. You can set up the correct time using buttons on the side of the clock. The middle button is A and the button closer to the red wire is B. Press A twice and the display will show the “ Set Month” mode. Press B to adjust the month and then Press A to confirm. The “Set Day” mode will be displayed now , Press B to adjust the day and then press A to confirm. Then the “Set Hour” mode will be displayed, Press B to adjust the hour and then Press A to confirm. Then the “Set Minutes” mode will be displayed, Press B to adjust the minutes and then Press A to confirm. You will see the two dots flashing in between the hours and the minutes numbers. Your clock will now display the correct time. To view the date press B once and it will show the date.
Admire your Lemon powered Clock! Step 5: Ready for some fun? What else can you use to power this clock? Apples, Grape fruits, Potatoes may be…
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Inspirations •
Which other fruits or vegetables are powerful?
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