Optical illusion hand

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1. Draw around your hand onto paper. With a ruler, draw straight lines in the background.

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3. Colour between the black lines, repeating your pattern. When you’ve finished, step back and squint your eyes. What do you see?

2. Next, where the handprint is, join the straight lines with curved lines.

What you need:

Bicarbonate of soda

Invisible Ink

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Top tip: You can use an earbud instead of a paintbrush

Hand sanitiser

Warm water

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1. Draw around your hand. Mix 1 tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda with ½ cup of warm water. With this solution, paint on the blood supply (it will be invisible!) Leave to dry for 10 minutes.

2. Mix 4 squibs of hand sanitizer together with a pinch of turmeric. With a CLEAN brush, paint inside the hand.

Watch as the blood supply slowly appears !

The brain is squishy and is made up of 60% fat. It contains blood vessels and nerves. The texture of the brain is similar to that of playdough. Physical activity can help you think, learn, and problem -solve better. It helps you enjoy an EMOTIONAL BALANCE

Step by Step :

Saltdough recipe:

1 cup flour

1 cup salt

½ cup of warm water

1: Mix all your ingredients together in a bowl – use your hands, it’s fun! Keep mixing until you have a smooth dough.

2: Loosely scrunch up some tin foil ~ as big as you want your brain to be.

3: Pinch a bit of dough off and roll it out like a little long sausage. Lay your sausage shapes onto your foil, making it look like the surface of a brain! Leave the foil underneath.

Top tip: Use a little bit of water to make your salt-dough stick to itself….

Memory Games!

How to play: Look at the list of words below for 1 minute.

Then take the list away and see how many words you can remember

Man Kite Bird Bridge

River Nest Home Coat

4: When finished, cook in the centre of the oven on a baking tray for 10 minutes (180 degrees / mark 4). Take out, allow to c ool, then colour with your felt -tip pens.

Challenge yourself : add things to colour your dough instead of painting or colouring …..can you map out the different parts of the brain using different colours?

Parietal lobetouch, taste and pain tumeric coffee paprika beetroot juice

Occipital Lobehelps makes sense of what you see

Girl Sticks Rain

Top tip: Try making a story out of the words and see if you can remember more!

Cerebellum – helps you coordinate your movement and balance

Frontal lobe –helps you plan, reason and pay attention

Temporal Lobehelps makes sense of what you hear

Brain Stem – controls breathing, heartbeat, facial expression and more….