Preparing For Your Launch Party

Preparing for your launch party.  For your launch party, you need a protractor, a piece of string, and a nut.  You know, like nuts and bolts.   Not like those peanuts that you find in the sofa.  Like the kind found in my poppa’s house.  Anyway, you know it's like one them nuts and bolts like you find in a hardware store.  You just need one.  You use all those things to make a machine that you can use to measure how high your rocket goes, but you need to launch a rocket before you can use the machine in order to figure out how high it goes.  The machine will measure it out, and I forgot that you need some toilet paper without the toilet paper--like the card board from the toilet paper, like the roll.   Just the role.  You also have to make sure that the fins on the rocket are not, I repeat, not broken off by children.  Remember rockets are not to be used for people under twelve years old, except if you're like with an older person who is an adult.   Remember, rockets have engines.  This is rocket science, so be careful. Sometimes they explode if they hit something when they launch, but if you're extra careful when line it up into the sky where there's nothing that you can hit, then you're okay.  We don't want any explosions.  Remember this will be fun for everybody if you can design your own rocket and you're okay, but some the ones on this website work best.   You can make of ours yourself, and after you make the rocket be sure to see how high it goes.   When you know how high it goes you can probably send us some feedback, and tell us how high the one you built went.  I bet it will be fun.  So fun.  Really fun.  Make sure to bring an extra fun meter; yours might explode!  Bye.

Making a Parachute

Why is a parachute and important? A parachute can cushion the fall so you could reuse the rocket over and over again as long as you have enough engines. This is how we make a homemade parachute. These are the materials needed:Cardboard

• Heavy-duty garbage bag


• Hole puncher


• Reinforcing rings


• Hexagon pattern (quilting pattern)


• Exacto knife


• Scissors
  

Print out the hexagonal pattern. Cut out the pattern. Place the pattern on cardboard, and trace and cut out the cardboard. Use the cardboard pattern to cut out a hexagon out of the garbage bag.

Use a hole puncher to punch a hole in all 6 Corners.

Place reinforcement rings on both sides of the holes you made. Then you should have a parachute ready to be strung into your rocket. If you used a garbage bag you will have two parachutes so you won't need to make a second one.

Painting a Rocket

The first step in painting a rocket successfully is to put on primer. The primer helps hold the rocket together, so doesn't fall part. It also helps when it falls from the sky, deploys a parachute, hits the ground and lands safely. Also helps the paint stick to the rocket so it won't fall off, rub off, or drip on your kitty cat. Here's some good colors that we think are good: silver and chrome yellow (kind of goldish). To get an even coat of paint, keep the spray paint far from the rocket so that you can get more distance and more paint on the rocket. It also helps for little short streaks. When you want short streaks just hold the rocket 1 to 2 feet away from the spray paint and start spraying in a line. After you're done painting, it's a good idea to let it dry somewhere where your cat doesn't swallow any paint.