One recent Saturday morning we were a bit stumped for things to do as it was peeing down with rain outside, so I noticed we had two juice bottles in our recycling and I thought surely we could make something out of these? We’d been watching an episode of Ben and Holly when they go into space so I thought why not make model rockets from them? It seemed like a fairly easy idea in my head and actually in practice it was too. The kids had a lot of fun helping with this as it really is very simple. So here’s our crafty instructions on how to make a rocket…..
Materials:
1 Bottle – we made a small rocket from a small lunchbox drink bottle Silver Foil
1 toilet roll
Black card squares
Stickers to decorate your rocket
Bright orange/ yellow/ red tissue paper to make the flames
Sticky tape
1 – Take your bottle and cover the entire thing in silver foil – ensure you make a point at the top for a real aerodynamic look
2 – Take your toilet roll and cut in to 3 pieces and also cover them in tin foil
3 – Stick the 3 covered toilet roll pieces to the bottom of your covered bottle using sticky tape– these are your rocket exhausts!
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| With the obligatory tongue out.... |
4 – Stick some black squares on the side of your rocket for windows and then stick lots of shiny stickers all over your rocket to make it look really state of the art
5 – Finally tear some strips of bright orange/ yellow/ red tissue paper and stick to the rocket exhausts for flames - there you have a a really speedy to make rocket!
Making the rockets was a lot of fun and then playing with the rockets after was also a big hit!
