Northern Lights In Our Living Room

One afternoon last October, I suddenly noticed a strange light on our wall!

 On further investigation, it turned out to be sunlight reflecting on some red holographic card. A friend had bought lots of holographic card cheaply as it had small faults in it. We gathered up a few different colours and started playing.

 

We enjoyed this so much that a few days later we played some more and improvised further with our holographic card.

This proved to be so popular that we kept returning to it for several weeks to come. Yeubi, in particular, found it entrancing and sat for ages bending the card in different ways to produce different effects. Both children enjoyed chasing and battling each others lights on the ceiling.

You can find more fun play ideas at the Play Academy