 Welcome back to Kids Fun Science. My name is Ken. Today's experiment is the safe solar eclipse viewer. Very easy to make. As always, adult supervision is required. What you need for this experiment is a Pringles can, a push pin, or a drill bit, a paper, box cutter, glue, and a tripod is optional. Start off the experiment. Take off the plastic lid of the Pringles can, trace it on a piece of paper and cut that out right on the line there a little bit inside the line because we're going to place it inside the plastic lid so right like that and it should look like this goes right in the lid like that then take some glue i'm using elmer school glue any kind of glue will work just kind of put a thin coat on the inside of the plastic lid this is just going to help us view the sun a lot easier so you're just going to take that and then take your cutout piece if it's a little too big just you know trim it up a little bit press it down and i'll let it dry it should just take a little while to dry uh while we do the rest of the project shouldn't take that long now we're going to flip the can over to the bottom part which is the aluminum tin we're going to measure halfway to the middle um so it does not have to be exact but it makes it a lot nicer if it's right you know right in the middle so kind of like just get a good rough draft for the middle there now you can either take a push pin and push it in or a drill bit um i'm going to show you the uh three different sizes in the drill bit as the larger you get the more um not as crisp of a view of the sun you're going to get uh with the drill bits uh this is uh a one sixteenth one sixteenth drill bit here and um it's a little bit bigger than a push pin so you're going to get a little bit bigger viewing of the sun so i i typically like to use the one sixteen i also will show you a couple other sizes and show you what they look like with the full sun of course because we don't have the eclipse up yet so go ahead and mark that um be very carefully i want to push down too hard and go very easy and uh make sure it's lined up and um and drill that through just a little like i said nice and easy doesn't have to be exactly centered and you're there you are you're set you got a hole in the bottom of the can and if you don't have a drill bit you're just going to take a push pin and push very hard into the center and pop a hole it's just going to be a little bit smaller now we're going to measure the sides we need to cut out with a box cutter um six centimeters um up uh directly deep you know uh straight up there so six centimeters and then we're going to make it uh four centimeters wide so mark a couple um six centimeters kind of make a line there just guessing how far four centimeters is and now we're going to mark the four centimeters and um once we get that marked um used to going to inches there it'll go centimeters you have four right there mark that you're going to go all the way to the edge there so we'll draw a line up in just a second um doesn't have to be exact uh this is just that you know if we get it in this ball park you're going to be okay i'm going to draw a couple straight lines and then we're going to cut it out so i use a box cutter you can use scissors uh whatever you do make sure you have an adult um because you know any sharp objects uh is dangerous you have to be very careful with this and so i take my box cutter i always find it uh to be pretty safe using a box cutter push it out with an adult and then i always pull away so it should end up looking like this and then we're just going to put the cap on the end of it that we made with the white cut out so now we're outside and what i did is i uh took a rubber band and i just wrapped it around the can i actually had two rubber bands tied together and then it kind of looks like a telescope and then with the push pin that's the size it's going to be when it's 1 16th so it's a little bit smaller but you can see when the the sun when the moon comes across and covers the sun um it's going to block out the part and you're able to safely see the solar eclipse without looking at the sun you're going to be able to see the image and what it looks like there so this is a smaller one at 1 16th i'm going to show you a couple other sizes that i drilled um it goes a little bit more out of focus but here we go here's the 1 eighth or 3.1 millimeters so you can see i'm just holding it here it's a little bit bigger um it's still not out two out of focus so it's pretty nice and then i have one more after this i have a 5 30 seconds uh 3.96 millimeters and that is very large so you can experiment through larger holes um you will get um some results you can see my finger going over how low is the solar eclipse anyway so the total solar eclipse begins august 21st 2017 at 901 a.m pacific standard time california maximum 10 15 and it ends at 11 37 a.m pacific standard time all across the united states to south carolina and um if you're not in that part of the view then you won't see a total but a partial eclipse i hope you enjoyed this video remember to click thumbs up and to subscribe and thanks for watching