Just add water and the tiny beads absorb 300 times their weight in water and turn into… well… eyeballs. The secret is a special water-absorbing polymer called Jelly Marbles. Imagine reaching into a jar filled with slimy, gooey eyeballs for Halloween. Add a few drops of Atomic Glow and then a few drops of dish soap to create the bubbling, glowing concoction below…
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Very creepy and cool!ĭrop a few pieces of dry ice into a cylinder filled 3/4 full with warm water. Just add it to water in a beaker, turn off the lights, turn on the black light, and watch the glow spiral and spread through the water. Add it to any of your Halloween liquids and watch them glow. Under normal light, Atomic Glow turns water a cool greenish-yellow color, but under black light it glows an eerie green color that looks “atomic.” Unlike glow powder, Atomic Glow needs a black light to glow. Spray the pumpkin with stick adhesive (for younger children or a less toxic version, you can also “paint” the pumpkin with Elmer’s Glue.) Shake glow powder evenly over the pumpkin to cover it. Use contact paper and cut out face pieces. Glow powder charges in regular light or under black light and then glows in the dark. Instead of carving your pumpkins, make them glow. This activity was featured on Martha Stewart a few years ago. The bag glows in the dark while they are out on Halloween night. I’ve also used Glow Powder to decorate trick-or-treat bags with kids during Halloween parties. My kids do this activity and then run to the windowless bathroom to check out their designs in the dark. Hold the paper up to a black light or regular light to “charge” the glow powder. Shake off the excess back into the container. Make faces, patterns, or whatever you want to create, then sprinkle the glow powder over the paper. Squeeze Elmer’s glue or use a glue stick on the paper in a design to make it sticky. One of my favorite activities for glow powder is decorating paper designs. Glow powder can be used for craft projects in place of glitter or crayons. When they are completely frozen, add them to your party drinks to create an eerie, glowing beverage! Just pour tonic water in your ice cube trays and freeze. If you don’t want to drink tonic water, why not use it to create glowing ice cubes to add to your favorite drink. Set the stage, turn off the lights, drop the Mentos and you have a glowing geyser… an amazing finale to your Halloween party! Tonic water still contains a small amount of quinine, which makes it a perfect material for glowing geysers. Quinine was added to tonic water to help fight off malaria. Tonic water contains quinine, a chemical that glows (fluoresces) under a black light. We'll look at this reaction in the next section.You can make your drinks and Mentos geyser glow by using tonic water. (See How Atoms Work and How Light Works for more information.)Ī light stick does the same basic thing, but it uses a chemical reaction to excite the atoms in a material.
When it eventually falls back down to its original level (closer to the nucleus), it releases some of its energy in the form of light photons. When this happens, an electron will be temporarily boosted to a higher energy level (farther away from the atom's nucleus). If the atoms are excited enough, the collisions will transfer energy to some of the atom's electrons. When the atoms speed up, they collide with each other with greater force. When you burn something, for example, heat energy causes the atoms that make up the material to speed up. Laser generation - The concentrated emission of light using stimulated emission (see How Lasers Work for details).Īll these processes work on the same basic principle: An outside source of energy excites atoms, causing them to release particles of light called photons.Fluorescence and phosphorescence - The emission of light in response to radiation energy (as in a fluorescent light bulb or a television).Incandescence - The emission of light due to heat (as in an ordinary light bulb or a gas lantern).
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