If you don't have access to an air compressor or air tank with a spray-nozzle, you can either make your own rocket launcher (watch second video below), or make the blow-gun rockets. Either way, you're going to be launching sky-high in no time!

 

Materials:

 

  • Two straws each in two different sizes
  • two sheets
  • index cards
  • scissors
  • tape
  • hot glue gun
  • air compressor or air tank with spray-nozzle
  • metal tubing that fits just inside the larger straws

 

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14 Responses to “Rocketships”

  1. You do not need facebook to watch these videos, simply push play and you can watch the videos!

  2. amy_lawrence says:

    For those of us who are not on facebook, can you please upload the launch video to the website?

  3. floatingdandelions says:

    Hi. We’d like to see this launcher in action. Do you have a video you can share so we can watch the launch?

  4. I’ll see if I can post a video right below the main video.

  5. vinitayemul says:

    can you give me a video of the launch

  6. Linda Griffith says:

    where do you get pvc glue.

  7. I got mine from the hardware store like Home Depot, but craft stores might also have them (JoAnn’s, Beverly’s, or Micheal’s).

  8. Nicole Whitaker says:

    Where can we get the metal tubing?

  9. Oops – another uploader error.. Ok, I just transferred the file and tried it myself – works all the way til the end. Let me know if you still have trouble.

  10. Ben Wagner says:

    Hi Aurora.
    I got to the bit where you were just showing me the air compressor nozzle.
    Also now it’s saying video not found or access denied!?!?!?
    Ben.

  11. The video length is 7:27, and it should play all the way through for you – where are you finding the error occurs? The last part of the video says “go have fun…” did you get that far?

  12. Ben Wagner says:

    Hi Aurora.
    I was watching this video and noticed that there is 2 minutes of it missing off the end.
    Could you work it out.
    Thanks.