Blast Off!

For The Boy's birthday earlier in the year he got a rocket kit. I had put it up for later and we totally forgot about it. We recently found it again and the boys have been begging to do it. We needed to get to the store to get a 2 liter bottle of soda and drink it. This of course was a big hit with the boys. LOL This is The Boy after we had taped up the contraption.

We had to take our paper, wrap it around the clear tube and tape it up. Making sure it would slide off the tube, Then we had to punch out the wings for the bottom and the cone for the top. I saw we but this was ALL me, it was way to hard for the kids to do it. I used a glue gun to glue the wings on the bottom and the cone on top. Once I finished all the boy's rockets we headed outside! Here they are with their rockets.

We would put the rocket onto the tube and then stomp on the bottle. This would force the air out of the bottle, through the tire tube, and push the rocket off the clear tube. We had to make sure the top was totally glued onto the rocket or else to much air would leak out and the rocket would not shoot. There was a lot of rocket repair after shots that had the rocket land on its' tip. The kids had a blast and even loved blowing into the tube to blow the bottle back up. As we went we had to re-tape the bottle to the tube and it was starting to leak air. We got some pretty good shots off and it went farther then I thought it would a few times.