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Align four color transparencies, each one a single color (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), and see a beautiful full color image.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 Under 5 minutes
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In this activity, learners build a paper stellated rhombic dodecahedron, a three-dimensional 12-pointed star.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 11 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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Find out what it would be like to have ears shaped differently from your own! Design and make different animal ears then try them out.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 5 to 10 minutes
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Create beautiful spirals by drawing a straight line. This sounds crazy, but you can with a turntable (a record player or lazy susan), paper, and pen.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners follow simple directions to explore and create platonic solids.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners use pattern blocks and mirrors to explore symmetry. Learners work in pairs and build mirror images of each other's designs.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, leaners build their very own rainsticks, an instrument filled with pebbles and seeds that create sounds like falling rain. Save costs by using material found around the home.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners discover how to rotate a flat shape into the third dimension. Learners draw and cut out a shape that has at least one straight edge on an index card.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners design unique tiles and make repeating patterns to create tessellations. This activity combines the creativity of an art project with the challenge of solving a puzzle.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners explore the properties of paper by constructing and modifying paper airplanes.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners construct three quick and simple mechanisms to start building a pop-up book. Learners fold, cut, and glue paper to make a bird beak, parallelogram, and V-fold.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners arrange triangles together to make patterns to create paper quilts. Learners experiment with arranging the triangles in different ways to make various designs.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 8 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners use a simple trick of perspective to dress friends in tiny cutout clothing. Learners make tiny pants out of card stock and tape them to the end of a stick.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners slide shapes to create unusual tiled patterns.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners create angle-measuring devices--protractors--out of paper. Learners follow a series of steps to fold a square sheet of paper into a triangular Pocket Protractor.


1 cent - $1 per student Ages 11 - 18 5 to 10 minutes