Light art

A night time activity. You need a dark room, torches and coloured cellophane (or coloured torches!!) and your camera.  Set your camera to slow exposure or fireworks setting.  Place the coloured cellophane over the light, attach with elastic bands.  Then get your kids to grab torches and see what they can draw in the 3 - 10 seconds the camera gives you.  When they see the photos they are amazed, but just jumping around with torches in the dark is exciting enough.  Squiggles were the favourite but we did try some shapes, fish, flowers and writing names.