Fun In The Making » reuse toilet paper or paper towel rolls http://www.funinthemaking.net Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:50:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Creative Rockets For Play or Display Made From Recycled Junk http://www.funinthemaking.net/2008/04/30/creative-rockets-for-play-or-display-made-from-recycled-junk/ http://www.funinthemaking.net/2008/04/30/creative-rockets-for-play-or-display-made-from-recycled-junk/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 00:45:13 +0000 jane http://www.funinthemaking.net/?p=73 I’m not going to give you step by step instructions, rather, I hope to spark your imagination. I will, however, supply a few tips.

Start collecting supplies. Over the next week (more or less) keep an eye out for rocket parts. Ask friends to check their recycle bin for you.

Note: Keep an “arts and crafts junk box” for kids’ projects. Inside the box add bits and bobs of “trash” such as plastic bottles that have been cleaned out, Styrofoam trays, bottle tops, thread spools, used but clean popsicle sticks, toilet paper rolls…

This rocket was made from all recycled parts

Adjusting the circumference of your cylinder is easy.

The above rocket needed the toilet paper roll to fit snugly in the top of a paper towel tube.

The nose of a rocket can be made this way.

Design your own spacecraft. I call this The Penguin for obvious reasons.

Make a space themed mobile . Don’t forget to add a few asteroids or some silly aliens.

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This is a fun yet easy thing to make and try out with the kids.
How-2: Collect about 100 toilet paper roll tubes (the number depends on the size of your TV). You might want to ask your friends to help, it really shouldn’t take too long. You will also need a stapler and a cover. The cover can be made of a large piece of velum or any semi transparent paper or plastic (even wax paper or thin white fabric will work). I used a piece of plastic. Staple the tubes together; stapling seems to be the fastest and most secure method of connecting the tubes. Then glue or otherwise attach the cover and it’s ready. The TV Pixilator has the best light show if a bright children’s cartoon or something similar is playing.

Instead of seeing the image on the tv, you will only see spots of colored light.

Does anyone know the sciemce behing this?

The colors going through a tube seems to mix and become one color.

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