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In this activity, learners create an optical illusion by spinning two attached cups. A round ball seems to magically appear when the cups spin.

We don't normally view people upside down and so our brains aren't accustomed to it.

In this activity, learners investigate visual perception as well as plan and conduct their own experiments.

How can you make one shade of gray look like two? By putting it against two different color backgrounds! This activity allows learners to perform this sleight of hand very easily.

In this activity, learners make a Benham Top to explore visual illusions and optics.

In this activity, learners control the (apparent) size of a hole with their brain.

In this activity, learners surprise their eyes with an optical illusion involving arrows made out of pipe cleaners.

In this activity, learners make an optical illusion toy from the 1800s to explore persistence of vision.

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.

Make a camouflage cut-out animal! Using patterned paper or magazine pictures from around the house, use your craft skills to make a paper animal that blends into its background.

In this activity (on page 2 of the PDF under GPS: Light and Color Activity), learners will see the illusion of colors produced by a rotating black and white image known as Benham’s Disk.

In this fun and interactive online exhibit, the straight lines of a tile wall appear to curve. The learner moves the rows of tiles and changes the color of the grout to achieve the intriguing effect.

In this optics activity, learners discover that when they rotate a special black and white pattern called a Benham's Disk, it produces the illusion of colored rings.