Thaumatrope

A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in the 19th century. A disk with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to blend into one due to the persistence of vision.

To start this lesson we bag a by looking at the history of the thaumatrope and videos and how they worked. 

We then used a template to create our own. I started with a carousel horse, but I stuck it off centre so it did not work. I created a second using a bird in a cage. 

We then made our own using our own designs. I drew a simple cats face on a circle sheet, with its whiskers on the opposite side. When they were twisted it created a full cat. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja4QtCyE1hU