This craft is intended for ages 5 to 12.
It contains small parts that might present a choking hazard.

SUPPLIES:
1 paper towel tube
2 5x5 inch pieces of wax paper
1 piece of plastic (like from a sheet protector) 4 1/3 inches wide, as long as the paper towel tube
1 piece of dark construction paper 4 1/3 inches wide, as long as the paper towel tube
Tape (or rubberband)
A few spangles or some course glitter
1 small piece of pipe cleaner
1 piece of the Sunday comics
Various decorations, pipe cleaners, eyes, feathers

Place 1 piece of wax around the end of the tube. Secure it with tape or a rubberband.
Make a circle the same size around as the tube with the pipe cleaner.
Place the spangles or pieces of glitter in the middle of the other piece of wax paper and put the round pipe cleaner around them.

Carefully put the wax papered end of the tube over the pipe cleaner, spangles and wax
paper and pull the edges of the wax paper up around the tube. Secure the wax paper with tape or a rubberband.
To fold the long piece of plastic and the construction
paper to fit inside the tube, hold the plastic in landscape position, measure and fold in 1 1/3 inch sections (there will be three) and you’ll have 1/3 inch left over. Crease the folds well, then unfold to make a triangle. Tape the extra 1/3 inch piece to secure. Fold the same way with the construction paper and put around the plastic, then tape together. Insert into the paper towel tube.

Cover the outside of the tube with
the comics and decorate as you like, with pipe cleaners, feathers, string, yarn, etc.
The Kaleidoscope
should be pointed toward a light source when you look through it but don’t look directly at the sun. Turn it slowly to see the patterns and colors that are created as it spins.