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Ghost Wind Tube

Ghost Wind Tube

We love seeing how makers and educators pick up tinkering projects and riff on them in playful ways! Claire Pillsbury from the Bay Area Discovery Museum shared a few photos of kids making their own ghosts and testing them out in wind tubes for Halloween. She said "there was a lot of excitement when the kiddos got to see their golf whiffle ball and fabric ghosts fly around in and up out of the tube."

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Build Your Own: Wind Tubes is an activity that allows visitors to explore moving air with a variety of everyday objects. Something as simple as a clear plastic tube on top of a fan allows for the air flow to be constrained enough to be predictable in the ways in which it affects materials, while at the same time allowing for a broad range of materials to be tested. Within its walls a variety of common objects can be made to respond to the turbulent flow of air. More about wind tubes →  

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