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How to Make a Magnifying Glass

March 18, 2015 By Laura 2 Comments

Girl Scouts Activity: How to Make a Magnifying Glass

Our Junior Girl Scouts are in the middle of earning their detective badge. One of our requirements was to investigate different materials using a magnifying glass and I thought it would be cheaper and more fun to make our own.

Girl Scouts Activity: How to Make a Magnifying Glass

It’s really simple to make your own magnifying glass. Here’s all you need:

Materials:

  • empty water bottle
  • water
  • medicine dropper
  • scissors

Instructions:

Cut a small circle from the rounded, smooth area of your water bottle (near the neck or bottom).

Girl Scouts Activity: How to Make a Magnifying Glass

Using the medicine dropper, add a few drops of water to the plastic disc and boom! You have your magnifying glass.

Girl Scouts Activity: How to Make a Magnifying Glass

Why It Works:

The disc you made curves outwards. When you add the water, the light that goes through it is refracted, bending inwards, which makes a lens and makes whatever you’re looking at bigger.

Oddly enough, I also had a few microscope slides around the house (even though we don’t own a microscope. I can’t explain, I can only report on what I see.) I got these slides at Hobby Lobby, but they’re pretty inexpensive on Amazon, too. So we put a few drops of water on the microscope slides and viewed things that way as well. The Girl Scouts took some time comparing the different magnifying glasses to see which worked better (I think the consensus was the slides).

Girl Scouts Activity: How to Make a Magnifying Glass

This activity fulfills a few different requirements for Girl Scouts — we did it for the Junior Detective Badge, but Brownies could do it during their Wonders of Water Journey as well.

And it’s a fun experiment to just try at home — have the kids make some magnifying glasses and take them outside to explore when they finish.

More Girl Scout posts:

Fairy Gardens
Inside-Out Trefoil S’Mores
Thin Mint Milkshake

 

 

 

Filed Under: Kids' activities Tagged With: girl scouts, indoor activities for kids, kids, kids activities, science, scouting

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