S & S Arts and Crafts (sorry I don't have a number for them) used to sell
kaleidoscope kit supplies.
Judie
>Hi,
>I do remember a film canister Kaleidoscope lesson on ArtsEdNet. I looked
>back into the archives and found one.
>-Alix
>
>
>I went to a workshop once on how to make kaleidoscopes with black film
>canisters (2) and microscope slides (3). Three slides arranged in a
>triangle
>will fit longways inside the two canisters- this forms the reflective surface
>inside. The slides can just be wedged in there and the two canisters can be
>taped together with black electrical tape. That much of the idea worked really
>well. The really tricky part was getting the eye hole in the bottom of one
>film canister and the large hole in the bottom of the other. Then they used a
>clear plastic yogurt lid and glued on small tissue paper shapes. This was to
>make a wheel to turn- as I recall, a straight pin was pushed through the
>center
>of the lid and then the pin was taped to the side if the canister with more
>black tape. This part of the mechanism was less than satisfactory.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas on how to make cutting film canisters easier
>and on how to better resolve the "turning colored shapes" part?
>
>Susan Holland Visual Art Studies
>University of Texas at Austin
><mailto:susan_holland@teachnet.edb.utexas.edu?Subject=Re:%20film%20canister%20k
>aleidoscopes%20?>susan_holland@teachnet.edb.utexas.edu
>
