Levitating Lantern | KiwiCo

The rubber-band tension setup felt a little fiddly at first, but once I got it balanced, the lantern genuinely hovered like magic. My kid and I both said "whoa" out loud when it clicked.

Watching the lantern float above its base still feels like magic every time I turn it on—the rubber-band tension trick is genuinely clever. My kids and I built it in about twenty minutes, and the "how it works" science behind the floating is explained so clearly that even I understood it.

Watching the lantern hover above its base without any visible support genuinely feels like a magic trick, and the rubber band tension system is clever enough that I actually understood the physics by the time I finished building it. The assembly took about twenty minutes and the floating effect work