A photocopy is like a magic trick that makes a piece of paper become twins! Imagine you have a drawing of a sun on one piece of paper. When you put it in a special machine called a photocopier, the machine uses light to look at the drawing and then makes another piece of paper with the exact same sun on it. It’s as if the machine took a picture of the drawing and printed it out again, so now you have two suns that look just the same!
Think of a photocopy as a mirror that you can touch. When you look in a mirror, you see yourself, right? But you can’t hold the image. A photocopy is like making the mirror image real, so you can hold it in your hands. The photocopier is the magical mirror that turns a reflection into a real thing you can touch and share.
Imagine making cookies with a cookie cutter. You press the cutter into the dough, and each time you do, you get a cookie that looks exactly like the cutter shape. A photocopy works similarly, but instead of cookies, it’s making copies of pictures or words on paper, so you can share them with friends or keep them for later.