
This activity promotes development and learning by encouraging children to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of cause-and-effect.
- Maintain focus and sustain attention, by following multi-step directions.
Materials Needed:
- Paper
- Sharpened pencil
- Scissors
- Tape
- Straw
- Measuring tape
- Markers, crayons, and/or colored pencils
Directions:
- Cut out and shape the rocket body. Draw and cut out a long rectangle, wrap it around the sharpened end of the pencil tip, tape the rocket body to form a tube, keep the rocket body on the pencil.
- Cut out and attach fins. Draw 3 to 4 triangles and cut out, then tape fins onto the rocket body towards the end of the pencil near the eraser (do not tape on the pencil).
- Bend the fins outward (to create a 90-degree angle).
- Make and measure the nose cone. Pinch the end of the rocket together near the sharpened pencil tip and tape to create a nose cone.
- Prepare to launch. Take the rocket body off the pencil, insert the straw into the rocket body and blow swiftly through the straw to launch.