Kids Science Activities
Light a bulb with balloon
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- Hard rubber comb or balloon
- Fluorescent light bulb (not an incandescent bulb)
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How to do it
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- Take the light bulb and comb into the dark room.
- Charge the comb by rubbing the comb on your hair or sweater. Make sure to build up a lot of charge for this experiment.
- Touch the charged part of the comb to the light bulb and ask the child to watch very carefully.
- You and your child should be able to see small sparks.
- Experiment with touching different parts of the bulb.
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Explanation
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- When the charged comb is touched with the bulb, the electrons from the comb moved to the bulb, causing the small flash of light inside.
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