When we teach balancing, we use peacock feathers. Peacocks often lose their feathers. So, the supplier we buy our peacock feathers from never plucks or harms the peacock. An on-line supplier of peacock feathers is located at the The Wild Peacock Page . The page has lots of information on peacocks and also a section to purchase various feathers.
Peacock feathers float slowly from side to side and drop very quickly.
Let's learn how to balance a peacock feather. First, look at the top of your peacock feather. At the top is the eye of the peacock feather. When you balance any object, it helps to look at the top of the object. Generally, if you keep the top still even when you move the bottom, the object doesn't fall.