Thaumatrope MiniTask.

A thaumatrope is a toy that was very popular in the Victorian times. A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to the phenomenon and persistence of vision.

Today thaumatropes are not used as much, but they are still really simple to make. Today at college we have been given the task of making one, but using pictures that we have gone out and taken instead of drawings.

Find a circular box, and draw around the outside of it on to card. Once you have done this cut the card to be left with a circle of card.  

Next you have to choose the two pictures that you are going to use on the thaumatrope. 

Here are my two images that I chose to use. 

Image1

Image2

Now that I have my images I need to cut them out to the same size as my circle of card. Once that has been done I stick one image on each side of the card, remembering that one side must be the right way up and the other must be stuck upside down. 

After all the sticking has been done, I have to make a hole punch on each side of the thaumatrope and attach some string so it will be able to spin around. 

And here is my finished result of my zoetrope...