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How to Make Glass Triangles for Kaleidoscopes

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Summary: Learn how to arrange your cut strips of glass to make a triangle for your kaleidoscope with expert crafting tips in this free online kaleidoscope making video clip.

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Ben Gonyo learned kaleidoscope making from his mother, a teacher of crafts. He has since made dozens of kaleidoscopes and taught this exact technique at grade schools, recreation...read more

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"Ben Gonyo here with Expert Village going over how to build a kaleidoscope. So we have our three glass pieces, our mirror pieces and now we are going to construct those in to the triangle, which is going to reflect our images to create the patterns. So what we want to do is want to stand them up in to a triangle, actually you want to make sure that they are clean. So I am working on a towel here. You can just make sure that there are not fingerprints, oil or hot glue or anything on them. I have done that before I turned the camera on so we are ready to go. Stand them up in a triangle shape. Hold them. I have got a piece of tape and you are just going to tape them together. You are going to make an equilateral triangle which is a triangle with angles of sixty degrees and here are some close ups of what it should look like."

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