OOZ & OZ
Mirror-aculous Art Activities
- Age Range:
- 6 - 12
- Price:
- $19.99
- Phone:
- 703-750-3338
- Intro Year:
- 2003
- Toy Types:
- Arts and Crafts
- Active
- Creative Product
- Educational
- Learning Skills:
- Fine Motor
This is an amazing recreation of a Renaissance art form called Anamorphoscopes. Curved mirrors placed on wacky, stretched drawings magically decode the drawings and reflecting them as normal again. Out of squiggles and swirls come delightful ready-to-color optical antics in art, perception and reasoning. In 1550, Renaissance artists were just exploring how to draw in three-dimension. As their movements expanded, Leonardo di Vinci began to experiment with anamorphoscopes in his famous sketchbooks. OOZ & OZ founder Myrna Hoffman was a freelance graphic artist when she saw a tiny anamorphoscope on display at Harvard University. Enchanted, she developed software to morph an image and later developed a learning tool for young art lovers. The Mirror-aculous Art activity kit comes with 32 computer morphed activity pages, two child safe mirror decoders, sixteen non-toxic crayons, easy instructions in English, Spanish and French and a use-anywhere carrying case. This is a fantastically unique product that is a lot of fun and has educational value for the whole family. More designs are available.
