Kaleidoscopes

Kaleidoscopes as Toys for Children

Here we present our kaleidoscopes for children.

Kaleidoscopes are imaginative and versatile toys that bring a lot of joy in their blaze of colour and variety of patterns. The optical toys provide changing shapes, colours and patterns. This circumstance is also the attraction of the beautiful tubes.

The structure of the kaleidoscope
In most cases, a kaleidoscope is formed from a tube. The material used is cardboard or plastic. The tube is usually also beautifully designed from the outside and thus forms a nice commonality with the inner variations.
At one end of the tube there is a small opening on one side to look through. At the other end is a (milky) glass pane that serves as a projection surface. This also serves as lighting for the kaleidoscope.
Between this matt glass pane and a second clear pane, there are many loose, differently coloured and also differently shaped elements made of glass or also plastic.
Since this is an optical toy, something very elementary is missing - namely three mirror strips that have to meet each other at the edges. These mirror strips ensure that the coloured elements mirror each other and thus produce patterns that resemble colour explosions. By turning the kaleidoscope slowly or quickly, the coloured particles fall into countless and diverse positions and create new patterns every second.

Various uses for a kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscopes are a nice gift idea for children from the age of three. However, the biggest difficulty for children at the beginning is to look through the small hole with only one eye. But as always, practice makes perfect.
There is another kaleidoscope version: an embedded prism creates the most amazing patterns. It is amazing what light and dark, close and distant make up when looking at the most diverse objects and also people. Mummy's mouth or daddy's nose viewed through the prism makes the little ones curl with excitement.

Conclusion
What we find so great about kaleidoscopes is that they are a classic toy from at least the day before yesterday, function completely independently of electricity and still provide hours of fun and variety. They are wonderful to play with alone, but of course you can also play creatively with others. Have you ever tried to pass on a particularly colourful pattern with a steady hand? D