The children could go on to build a ‘light maze’, using construction bricks and small mirrors. Can they successfully navigate a torch beam through their maze?

Use your hands and fingers to make different shapes in front of the torch beam and see what different animals or characters you can make. A bat is a nice simple animal to start with that your ...

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It also has a bright light built in – a pleasingly streamlined way to illuminate your nostrils, and undoubtedly less fiddly than trying to angle a separate torch beam up there with the other hand.