To start off with, I drew three circles on a piece of white card board, drew a line in the middle, colored it in, and cut it out.
By carefully pushing some holes in the wheel and threading a string through them, I made this contraption.
The goal here is to spin this wheel by twisting the string then pulling it tight. It was really tricky but I was able to get it! Check out what happens when the wheel gets going.
Once it spins you not only see the colors I colored in, you see new ones! What other colors do you see?
I see purple, orange, and a little bit of green in the smallest circle.
Since I had so much trouble getting the wheel to spin right, I wanted to explore other ways to get this wheel spinning. So, I pulled out my Lazy Susan.
As I tried to get it going, I quickly learned that I wouldn’t get it going nearly as fast as it needed to. But the camera caught an interesting frame. Something we could not capture with our naked eye.
Fun, right? The wheel was spinning so fast that our brains cannot keep up, thus we see the colors mixing!
The WOW-rating is a 3. I wasn’t completely thrilled with his, probably because of my age. But I can totally see a small child absolutely loving this!
