Just Add Water!

Visit Tim’s Toy Shop, at _______________________________________________________________________ Tim demonstrates some of his water-based toys! Arachnophobes watch out - this spider climbs up the plastic stick! Sake cups sometimes have a hidden image in the bottom. A clear glass marble lens on top of the image causes it to distort. However when you pour sake - or water - into the cup, the image becomes visible. Of course after a few glasses of sake, the image might start to blur a little! A ceramic cup with a whistle as part of the handle. Just inside the cup is a small hole, and if you fill the cup with water so that the hole is covered, the whistle becomes a warbling whistle! A metal cup from Germany. One side of the cup has a thicker wall then the other, so when you place the empty cup on a flat surface, it leans over to one side. However when you fill it with water, the instability is cancelled out, and the cup becomes upright. Japanese balloons with very thick walls. You can fill it with water, and it can be used as a kind of yo yo. Finally, a toy which appears to be one thing, but ides something else. Called a Crap Shooter, you turn the handle to roll the dice. However when you turn the handle, you get squirted with water. Who saw that coming?