Your child hides natural objects in plain sight, times how hard they are to find, and works out the real rules of camouflage, the survival trick animals use every day. Part hiding game, part real experiment, ending with a rule they proved themselves and a hunt for camouflage in the wild.
Ages 6–14 · Activity guide · 3 skill levels
Your child hides objects against different backgrounds and works out the rule for what disappears. Change one thing, the background, and see what changes. By the end they have built a rule from evidence they gathered, which is what animals have been relying on all along.
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