Rubber Band Illusions

Rubber Band Illusions

Here's a trick almost any kid can learn. A rubber band magically leaps from two fingers to the other two fingers of the same hand. Amaze your kids and then teach them to amaze their friends. This site tells how to do it:

http://www.covenanthealth.com/parentingfair/magic-4.html

A little more complicated but still cool is this one. You take an index card, fold it, draw a fish on one side and a fishbowl on the other. This site tells you how to use rubber bands to spin the card rapidly, making it appear that the fish is inside the fishbowl.

http://www.pacsci.org/education/si/demos/sciencefun.html