Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

Here is one simple way to find out how much dust particles actually fly through the windows and into our home.

[Well obviously it won’t measure exactly how much, but at least it can give us a rough idea]

What you need:

>> Paper

>> Scissors, a piece of string, and a very STICKY transparent sticky tape

Cut out the paper into whatever shape you and your kid likes, and cut out the inside part of it.

Then place the sticky tape across the hollow bit in the middle. It should all be covered, with the sticky part facing the other way.

Make a hole at the top of the paper and tie a string to it.

Now simply choose a spot where you’d like to ‘catch and measure’ the amount of dust coming in (remember to let the sticky side face out).

For our case, Anya chose our bedroom window (and she said she’d want to make more and hang them on all our other windows!)

Anyway. The next thing we do : wait and observe..

It’d be interesting to see how much dust it can collect in a few days. Or even a week or more.

It’s so easy to make, have a go at this yourself

PS: If you happen to make these too for your home, I’d LOVE to see how this experiment turns out for you too! If you live in a different country, better still!

Please email me your photos! Might post them here some time.

Purpose of this experiment: to observe the interesting differences in ‘air quality’ (read: flying dust, basically) in different local regions and countries!

Cool!