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Hello Melissa, and thank you for the message.
There are many ways, and here's an idea to consider:
Lets say the item was stolen from a closet or drawer, and there was a small piece of fabric that caught on the door/drawer (in a metal edge, or crack in the wood, etc.) and that piece of fabric is red. Now your victim can day that wasn't there before, and perhaps you have two possible suspect .. one with a red polyester shirt and one with a red cotton shirt.
By looking at the fabric under a basic microscope (10x & 40x = 400x - and I can share images with you, if you need) You can see if the fabric at the "crime scene" is red polyester or red cotton (very easy to tell the difference).
Now, this will be one piece of evidence. That being said, fabric is always circumstantial (indirect evidence) for the most part as you are not making a definitive identification, but you can definitively eliminate one from the other. I think that small detail can easily be worked into a narrative that could be fun for kids of nay age (adults included) in solving the crime.
Does that help? Always here if more help is needed as this is the fun stuff for me :)