 Welcome back to Kids Fun Science. My name is Ken. Today's experiment is a static electricity butterfly. As always adult supervision is required. What you need for this experiment is tissue paper, tape, scissors, balloon, and paper. So there's two different ways we can do this. This one I'm going to cut out the tissue paper to be the same exact size as the paper itself. This way once I get the tissue paper cut out I'm going to show you how I tape that onto a regular piece of paper and able to put it into my printer and so I could use a template for a butterfly that I'm going to use in the experiment. So you want to cut the tissue paper just as tad smaller than the paper itself. You don't want it larger than the piece of paper you're using for your printer and then once that's cut out we're going to take some scotch tape and very thin pieces we're going to tape three pieces on the top of the paper and it'll hold down the tissue paper so you're able to print it out. So you go ahead and take your scotch tape a little piece and roll it up so it's back and forth like it's two-sided or use two-sided tape and then just put that on one corner and then you're going to repeat this process to the middle and then also to the far side of the other side of the tissue paper and then you're going to stick that on to the regular paper and then I'll show you how to print it out from there. So there's the middle and then I'm going to do one more piece to the outside and put that there. So I have three pieces of the tape as you can see right here and now I'm going to stick that tissue paper onto the regular piece of paper that I want to put into the printer. So very carefully align it to the top of the paper and make sure it's spread out evenly and then just press down on those three pieces. Very important that that piece goes into your printer first otherwise it won't work and then it should just pull all the way through. So once you have your pattern up here's my printer and then I put the paper in already and it's starting to print. You have to make sure if it reverses on the other side which side you need to put in but once it comes out as it's coming out now then your template that you had put it into Word or Pages is out and then carefully you just need to remove the three pieces of tape or cut it out with a scissor and then you've got your butterfly wings. The second way and you can trace it yourself or the third way which I don't show you you could just be creative and draw the butterfly yourself. Anyway I'm showing you here that I'm just going to trace it so you put down the tissue paper and then trace out the butterfly you want. You could go into as much detail as you want. You do need the body piece cut out. This whole wings need to be cut out as one piece so though we're not cutting out the whole body we're going to want to cut out the wings itself. I mean the body itself the base in between the wings as you'll see in just a second because we need to put it down as one whole and then you need to print out the body separately to hold down the wings for the experiment. So once that's all completely there now I'm going to cut it out. You can see I drew that extra line for the body piece. I didn't draw the whole body because I don't need that for this piece. I just need the in between part of it so I can actually you know hold it down as one. You don't want to have not have the body there and then you cut it out and you cut it into two different pieces. It wouldn't work this way when we cut it out. We're able to have it as one piece so we go ahead and cut this all the way through and I'll come back in just a second. And here we are I got it all the way cut out and so now I just laid on the table and then I've already pre-cut. You want to make sure your tissue is flat. You don't want it folding up. There's a crease in there. You want to make sure it's flat. I cut out the body right here. I printed it out and cut it on cardstock. I put three pieces of tape on double sided tape and one on the bottom and then I'm able to put this over the wings and it will hold down my wings for the experiment. So like I said you want to make sure the tissue is completely flat. Put that there. Remember I had tape on the top part of there and on the bottom and so now it's secure. Now you can be more creative and put more designs on the wings. Also you want to tape the body down on the sides. So here again once again I've already printed out the version here of the body so I'm going to put the body now. Same thing with the three pieces of tape on top and one on the bottom and then I will show you here that I'm going to put another piece of tape to hold it down. You can see it kind of wants to slide around so I'm going to put a couple pieces of tape to hold that piece of the body down and then once I get just like this this way now the wings won't slide back and forth for the experiment and now we're completely set up and we're ready to do the experiment. So you need to positively charge a balloon up either on your hair or on a carpet and then when you bring the balloon down you can see it actually the butterfly grabs on to the balloon and when you do it a second time it's not as much charged on the balloon so you have to recharge the balloon up and this time using a yellow one and it wants to grab it. It's impressive. Well why does the butterfly's wings move? Well when you rub the balloon on your hair or in the blanket or a carpet the electrons that lost from your hair are gained on to the balloon giving it a static charge known as static electricity. When the negative charge balloon gets close to the positively charged tissue paper they attract to one another and they pull of the attraction is so great that the lightweight tissue moves towards the balloon. You have to recharge it every time. This is a pretty cool active hands-on experiment. I hope you enjoyed this video remember to click thumbs up and to subscribe. Thanks for watching.