Rocket Ship

Rocket Ship

Ages: 7 and up

Parental supervision recommended

Difficulty: * * * * *

Time: 90 minutes (30 minutes for painting, 45 minutes for drying, 15 minutes for assembly)

For the future astronaut: a rocket ship for your room!  Below are a list of materials and directions on how to make a 4 foot tall rocket ship!  You may need a parent or guardian to help paint, cut, and use the glue gun.

Materials Needed (located at your favorite craft store):

• Half of a small cardboard carpet tube
• One plastic funnel
• Two sheets of Styrofoam poster board
• Spray paint in metallic and at least one other color
• Tin foil
• Hot glue gun and sticks

How-to Steps (All needs to be done with parent/guardian help and supervision):

1. Outdoors, spray paint the entire outside body of the carpet tube with metallic paint; let dry outside
2. Cut 4 equal fins for each rocket from the poster board; spray paint both sides outdoors with the opposite color; let dry outside
3. Wrap tinfoil around funnel
4. Once spray paint has dried, apply hot glue to the edge of one end of the carpet tube; place funnel on top and hold for 60 seconds to let dry in place (if glue does not hold the first time, apply more to the outer edge so that the glue will touch, and therefore stick to the inside of the funnel)
5. Apply hot glue to the longest edge of each fin and apply to the opposite end of the rocket from the funnel, placing them evenly apart at 90 degree angles (so the rocket will stand on its own); hold for 60 seconds to let dry in place