Possible Clues:

• Optical toy
• Child’s toy spooked Alice, unfortunately
• Brilliant optical toy in a tube
• Erratic poke around oilcase for director with optical toy
• I'd please cook, perhaps, providing multi-coloured trifles
• I'd please cook with creation of multi-coloured trifles
• Optical pattern-making toy
• Toy making coloured patterns
• A changing pattern of colours, shapes
• Optical toy in a tube