Balance

Gravity and Friction, two forces we are always up against can be used to our advantage. Learn to put these forces to good use by building a car whose speed depends on weights, incline, and gravity. Can you design a car with the greatest potential energy? This is your opportunity to make predictions and record your hypotheses. Make your car unique by designing how it looks too.

The evolution of color engineering began 40,000 years ago when primitive artists expressed themselves in colors made from natural pigments. They tested their colors on different surfaces and mixed them to concoct more colors. When you combine the fun of playing with a spinning top and combine it with interchangeable patterns. Build a Benham’s disk top and learn how black and white spinning designs are processed by the three kinds of cones in your eye. Play with blending lights and making many colors out of three key ones.

Playfully experiment with a figure that tumbles down a slope. Decorate and experiment, test your acrobat with a friends, try variations and learn from trial and error while playing with this amusing project.

With your own set of acrobats, design, color, and have fun with a theme of your choice. You can also design both sides with opposing themes. Then stack, balance, and construct with these figures. Challenge a friend, build a domino inspired track, see how high and how many you can balance at once. This is a fun challenge and can be fun for all ages.