Any of the materials at hand for a child can be a wonderful toy or craft for a school exhibition. To do this, you just need to show a little ingenuity and use additional, no less available materials. You have probably already tried to do or. In this article, we will show you how to do different models rockets from an ordinary plastic bottle.
A rocket made of plastic bottles for the little ones
Let's start our master classes with the simplest rocket that can be made together with the baby. To make it we need:
- empty plastic bottle;
- small pieces of foam;
- stationery knife;
- scissors;
- baking foil;
- paints, preferably acrylic;
- brush.
Children's craft "Rocket" from a bottle
Another version of a rocket made from a plastic bottle, which can be used as a craft for an exhibition, is also made with the child. To make it look neater, we will use stencils.
So, for the rocket we will need:
- plastic bottle without relief;
- acrylic paints;
- brush;
- dense colored paper;
- scissors;
- stationery knife;
- Scotch;
- cardboard.
Craft "Rocket" from a plastic bottle with your own hands
An original rocket can be made simply by slightly changing the manufacturing technology and adding a few more new elements. So, for the next version of the rocket, we need:
- clear plastic bottle rectangular;
- white acrylic paint;
- three plastic lids different diameters and different colors;
- plastic cup;
- two cardboard tubes;
- thick cardboard in red, yellow and orange;
- felt-tip pens or pencils;
- scissors;
- hot glue.
- To paint the bottle, pour a little white paint into it and, closing the lid, shake well so that the paint evenly stains the bottle from the inside. This process can be made less time-consuming if you immediately take a plastic bottle of the desired shape and white... A dairy bottle may work for this.
- We paint cardboard tubes with pencils. Cut out strips of flame from colored cardboard and glue them to the tubes from the inside. Glue the resulting nozzles with a flame with hot glue to the bottle.
- We make portholes from multi-colored plastic covers. To do this, glue them back to the front of the rocket using a hot glue gun.
- Cut out two triangles from cardboard, paint them with felt-tip pens or pencils and glue them on the sides of the rocket.
- Glue an inverted plastic cup to the bottom of the rocket with hot glue, which will be another nozzle, and at the same time a stable base of the rocket. After the glue has completely hardened, our rocket is ready!
Haven't you ever wanted to become an astronaut and fly into space aboard a rocket? To become an astronaut, you need to spend many years in education and training. In the meantime, you can make and launch your own homemade rocket in the yard, which, thanks to our instructions, you can make yourself.
To make a homemade rocket you will need:
A4 paper sheet
35mm film (with a lid that goes inside the opening of the jar, not over its circumference)
Duct tape
Scissors
Water
Antacid effervescent tablet (a neutralizing agent used to calm an indignant stomach)
Eye protection: sunglasses or safety glasses
How to build a homemade rocket?
1. Make an enlarged copy of the rocket so that it fits on a sheet of A4 paper. Cut out the details of the template.
2. Remove the cover from the film can. Using adhesive tape, glue a large cut out of the template to the jar. Make sure the opening end of the can is right up against the edge of the paper.
3. Now roll the paper around the jar to form a cylinder and glue it 
duct tape. The jar should be at the bottom of the cylinder.
4. Take the part of the nose cone. Use duct tape to glue the ends together to form a tapered shape. Glue the cone to the top of the paper cylinder.
5. Take the stabilizer templates and fold along the dotted lines. Glue to the rocket bodies. Your rocket is now ready to launch!
6. Take your homemade rocket outside and put on your glasses to protect your eyes.
7. Turn the homemade rocket upside down and fill the jar halfway with water.
8. Drop half of the antacid tablet into the container and quickly close the lid.
9. Place your homemade rocket on a launch platform, such as a concrete path or paved area. Step back and wait. In a few seconds yours will take off!
How a homemade rocket takes off and works
When the tablet is placed in a jar of water, it begins to dissolve and fizzle. The hiss produces more gas inside the can, but when the lid is closed, it cannot escape from there. Eventually, something has to happen! Therefore, the can shoots out the lid. and the gas rushes outward and downward, pushing the can together with the rocket attached to it upward.
Real rockets work the same way. Instead of water and an antacid pill, the rocket's fuel tank contains a mixture different types fuel that causes an explosion. An explosion erupts from the bottom of the fuel tank, forcing the rocket upward.
The first rocket to launch anything into space was the R-7 launch vehicle. With its help, on October 4, 1957, Sputnik-1, the first artificial Earth satellite (AES), was launched in the USSR.
Take a regular plastic bottle of lemonade or other liquid. It should be undamaged. Sometimes there is a special coating on the bottle, on which you can paint with ordinary paint. It is necessary that the body looks like a rocket. Have your child come up with a name for the spaceship and write it down.
The top of the rocket should be on the bottom of the bottle. Take a piece of colored paper and roll it into a cone. Wrap tape around the cone to keep it from falling apart. You can use special duct tape or colored tape. Attach the cone to the bottom of the bottle. If the cone sticks weakly on the glue, use additional scotch tape.
In order for the rocket to stand, it is necessary to make a base. To do this, cut 4 triangles out of thick colored paper. It is desirable that the color of the paper is the same as that of the cone. Attach the triangles to the bottom of the rocket so that it rests on them and stands firmly. Use scotch tape for reliability. To make the structure even, place the rocket on the neck and only then attach the triangles.
Water rocket
In order to make a water rocket, or a hydro-rocket, you need two plastic bottles and a ping-pong ball. Cut off one upper part, measuring 10 cm from the neck. Then cut off the neck and insert the ping-pong ball into the hole. To keep it tight, grease it with glue. Attach the resulting cone to the bottom of the second bottle. Wrap the joint tightly with tape. The rocket body itself can be pasted over with colored tape and made on it.
The startup process is the same for both aquatic and aquatic. Fill the rocket one third with water through the neck at the bottom. Close the neck with a lid and make a small hole in it. The hole should be large enough to accommodate the drift cord. A bicycle pump can be used. Insert the cord into this hole and push until it reaches the middle of the bottle. The cord should go in tightly so that there is no free space in the hole.
If you are launching a space rocket, point it up and hold it by the neck. Now pump air into the bottle. There will be a lot of pressure inside. Release the rocket: it will take off, and the water will splash out.
When launching a hydro-rocket, direct it into the water and repeat all the same actions as with a conventional rocket.
The air-hydraulic model belongs to the simplest type in rocket modeling. It is characterized by simplicity of design and operation. This model makes it possible to carry out many different experiments and, most importantly, to get acquainted with the operation of a jet engine. The air-hydraulic missile can be easily built by yourself.
Such a simple rocket can be made very quickly from scrap materials. First you need to decide what size the rocket will be. The base of her body will be simple plastic bottle from under the soda. Depending on the volume of the bottle, the flight characteristics of our future rocket will differ. For example, although 0.5 liters will be small in size, it will also take off 10-15 meters low. The most optimal size is a bottle with a volume of 1.5 to 2 liters, you can of course also take a five liter vessel, but this will be too powerful for us, not to fly to the moon. To start, you will also need the main tool - a pump, it is better if it is a car and with a device for measuring pressure - a manometer.
The main unit in the rocket will be a valve, from which the efficiency of our entire rocket will depend. With the help of it, air is injected into the bottle and retained. Take a punctured or maybe a working chamber from any bicycle and cut out a "nipple" from it, the part to which we connect the pump. You will also need an ordinary cork from bottles of wine or champagne, but since there are a lot of them different forms and sizes, then the main selection criterion for us will be a length of at least 30 mm and a diameter so that the cork fits into the neck of the bottle with an interference fit for 2/3 of its length. Now, in the found cork, you should make a hole of such a diameter that the "nipple" enters with effort into it. It is better to drill the hole in two steps, first with a thin drill, and then with a drill of the required diameter, and the main thing is to do it gently with little effort. and we connect the cork together, after dropping a little "super glue" into the hole in the cork to prevent air from seeping out of the bottle. The last part in the valve will be a platform that serves to attach the valve to the launch pad. It must be made of a durable material, such as metal or fiberglass with a thickness 2-3 mm and dimensions 100x20 mm. After making 3 holes for fastening and nipples in it, you can glue a plug to it, while it is better to use epoxy glue for a stronger connection. 8-11 mm, otherwise there will be nothing to connect the pump.
I proceeded to the rocket itself. For its manufacture, it will require two bottles of 1.5 liters, a table tennis ball, colored tape. One bottle can be put aside for now, and with the second we will perform the operation. The top of the bottle should be carefully cut off so that the total length is approximately 100 mm. Next, we saw off the threaded head from this part. As a result, we got a head fairing, but that's not all. Since there is a hole in the middle, you need to close it and in this case you will need a prepared ball. Take a whole bottle, turn it upside down, put the ball on top and put on the head fairing. In total, it turned out that the ball protrudes slightly beyond the circumference of the bottle, it will serve as an element that softens the impact on the ground when descending from orbit. Now the rockets need to be decorated a little, since the bottles are transparent, then in flight the rocket will be hard to see and for this, where there is a flat cylindrical surface, we wrap it with colored tape. So the coveted missile turned out as a result, although it looks more like a ballistic intercontinental missile. Of course, stabilizers can be made to resemble a standard rocket, but they will not affect the flight in any way on this projectile. Stabilizers in the amount of four pieces are easy to make from cardboard from household appliances, by cutting them out of a small area. You can glue them to the rocket body using liquid nail glue or other similar.
Now let's start making the launch pad. To do this, we need a flat plywood sheet 5-7 mm thick, sawn out in a square with sides 250 mm long. In the center, we first fix the previously made platform with the valve, the distance between the holes is chosen arbitrarily, the distance between the two platforms should be at least 60 mm and for this we use bolts with a diameter of 4 or 5 mm and a length of at least 80 mm, respectively. Further, in order to fix the rocket on the launch pad, you will need to make a holder with a launch device, which consists of two corners, two nails and 4 bolts with fasteners. At the corner, on one side, we drill two holes for fasteners to the launch pad, the distance between the holes, both in the corner and in the main platform, should be the same, for example, 30 mm. On the other side of both corners, you also need to make two holes with a diameter of 5 mm for two large nails of the same diameter, but the distance between the holes should be such that the distance between the nails themselves is from 28 to 30 mm. When everything is assembled, you should adjust the height of the position of the fixing nails. To do this, we will install the bottle on the valve, as in combat mode, with great effort, and after that we need to choose the height of the corners so that the nails slide easily in the holes themselves and between the neck of the bottle. The nails also serve as a release mechanism, but we also need to make a special plate connecting them and for the rope that we will pull to launch the rocket. The final elements in the launch pad will be the legs, for which you need to drill 4 holes in all corners of the pad and fasten 4 small bolts from 30 to 50 mm long, they serve to fix the launch pad in the ground.
The rocket must be filled with water in a strictly specified amount, this is 1/3 of the total length of the entire bottle. Empirically, it is easy to make sure that it is not worth pouring in too much water, as well as too little, since in the first case there is too little space for air, and in the second - too much. The engine thrust in these cases will be very weak, and the operating time will be short. When the valve is opened, compressed air begins to eject water through the nozzle, resulting in thrust, and the rocket develops the appropriate speed (about 12 m / s). It should be borne in mind that the amount of thrust is also influenced by the cross-sectional area of the nozzle. The thrust, which decreases as the water is thrown out, will allow the rocket to reach an altitude of 30-50 m.
Several test launches in weak or moderate winds allow us to conclude that with a hermetic connection of the valve with a bottle, correct filling with water and with a vertical installation of the model at the start, it can reach a height of about 50 m.Installing the rocket at an angle of 60 ° leads to a decrease in altitude ascent, however, the flight range is increased. With shallower trajectories, either the model starts will be unsuccessful, or the flight range will be short. A model launched without water will be very light and will only climb 2 to 5 m. Air-hydraulic models are best launched in calm weather. As a result of the tests, it is easy to see that the model has good stability and a tendency to orient itself against the wind, both in the presence of thrust and after the engine stops working. The flight time of the model from the start to the moment of landing, depending on the achieved altitude, is 5 - 7 seconds.
By the way, air-hydraulic rockets can be multistage, that is, they consist of several bottles or even five or more. In general, the record for the flight altitude of such a rocket is as much as 600 meters, not every standard rocket model will be able to reach such an altitude. At the same time, they can lift a significant payload, for example, some testers install cameras or mini video cameras and conduct aerial photography successfully.
So, when everything is ready, you can go outside and make the first launches. Along with the rocket and equipment, you still need to take additional fuel - several bottles of water. Such missiles can be launched anywhere, in a schoolyard, in a forest clearing, the main thing is that there are no buildings within a radius of 20 meters that impede combat flight. In the center of our test site, set the launch pad so that the installed rocket is strictly vertical. Next, we connect the pump to the valve, fill the rocket with water of the prescribed volume and quickly install it on the launch pad, so that the valve fits very tightly into the neck of the bottle. Now we cock the trigger, insert two nails into the holes, fixing them. It is better to launch an air-hydraulic rocket together, one will pull the rope to start, and the other will pump air into the bottle. The length of the rope should be about 10 - 15 meters, this distance is enough so that the launcher does not spray water from the rocket with a fountain, but you cannot envy the one who will work with the pump, he has very good chances to take a cool shower during a non-standard flight of a rocket. Since our rocket consists of a 1.5-liter bottle, it should be pumped to a pressure of 4 - 5 atmospheres, you can try more, but the valve itself and the connection to the pump with such a high pressure will not withstand, and a leak will occur. When pumping, you can not be afraid that something might happen to the bottle, because according to technical data, it can withstand 30 - 40 atmospheres. Air injection takes approximately 30 seconds. When the required pressure in the bottle is reached, the launcher is given the command "Start", which with a sharp movement pulls the rope and after a moment the rocket rushes into the sky, performing a combat mission. the trajectory of the rocket.For the next launch, all that remains is to add fuel from the reserve and pump air into the engine compartment again.Such a rocket can be good fun on a sunny summer day.
It is very important to foster respect and culture in our children. I consider it very correct to widely celebrate the All-Russian Cosmonautics Day, which takes place on April 12. It is inextricably linked with the name of the first earthling who flew out of the Earth's orbit, Yuri Gagarin.
And it is even more important that this is our compatriot. For our children, this is authority, courage and courage. Therefore, in all kindergartens and schools on this day, a handicraft competition is held on this topic.
The first thing that comes to mind is a rocket and an astronaut. However, I found for you a lot of original ideas on the topic of Space, let's get down to their implementation.
You need to start the most simple options, so let's look at what can be made with our preschoolers. With them we will use the most simple materials: paper, cardboard and plasticine.
For this rocket, you need to make blanks, because the children of four are not yet very good at using scissors, so they need help to cut out the parts.
My daughter just loves to glue rockets. We have already dedicated an entire album to them. Self-adhesive paper was specially bought for this purpose. It is very bright and easy to stick.
I caught the eye of the idea of a Martian from a ball. It certainly couldn't be easier!
Also, the alien can be made of cardboard, and decorate the plate with sequins, which adhere well to PVA glue.
To help, I suggest taking a ready-made rocket template and stretching plasticine over it with your fingers. To be able to use this picture many times, laminate it or glue it on both sides with wide tape.
Also use the ready-made forms of planets for application, at the same time and broaden the horizons of the child, explaining to him that there are several planets, and we live on the one that is blue and is called the Earth.
I quote two step by step wizard class, how to evenly cut in blanks from colored paper.
And another template for cutting. All figures have a long tongue with the former base. This base needs to be glued. Then you will succeed volumetric applique with 3d effect.
Another idea made on a piece of cardboard wrapped in a garbage bag. How to do these I gave detailed master Class.
More templates for cutting.
This flying machine can be assembled from cardboard.
Toilet rolls can be used to glue cool simple rockets.
Or use shiny paper for decoration.
Now I will show you how to make such a rocket step by step.
You can combine a craft and a postcard. And make the tail of the rocket out of threads of red, orange and yellow flowers that resemble a flame.
Look at these templates, it immediately comes to mind that there are still lunar rovers, satellites and the planet Moon itself, how many options for creativity at once. Or you can simply cut out these figures and stick them on blue or black cardboard.
Also, just give your child a coloring on the Space theme and keep it as a souvenir.
Any of these coloring pages can be used as a template to make crafts from plasticine, stained glass paints or cereals! you just need to fill the space between the lines with the selected material.
For example, my child and I love to stretch plasticine with our fingers. And for this, a coloring book with large pictures was specially bought.
By the way, buy soft plasticine for these purposes!
Crafts for April 12 for schoolchildren
For schoolchildren, the requirements are more complicated. But on the other hand, it is much easier for them than for babies, because the number of materials that they can use increases.
For example, make gingerbread cookies on the theme of Space in the form of a comet, planets, flying saucer. You can replace gingerbread salt dough... And also after baking, paint it with colored glaze. How to cook it is well described by my colleague https://azbyka-vkysa.ru/vozdushnyj-pasxalnyj-kulich.html
Or use cotton pads. They can be colored and passed off as the planets of the solar system.
Also a very painstaking work for those who like to embroider with beads. It can be replaced with bugles, sequins, or even use the cross-stitch technique.
Here's an example of how to replace beads with buttons.
First graders can be asked to make a rocket from a cardboard roll.
Or this option with a passenger)))
How to correctly make a rocket that has a base is shown in the instructions. Everything is very detailed and the child himself will be able to repeat all the stages.
You can cut the stand according to this scheme.
How do you like the idea bulk crafts? When the whole Cosmodrome is looking at you, maybe Baikonur itself?
You can make a craft on a stick. We need skewers for a kebab. For the tail, use corrugated paper or napkins.
A cocktail tube works great too.
Use two pieces to hide where the tube is attached.
You can create a whole composition of crafts using this technique. By the way, you can put them in a glass with semolina, sugar or salt. Grains and spices will prevent the sticks from moving and bending.
Glue the planet out of papier-mâché.
Older children also work with plasticine. But they are already using sophisticated techniques work with flagella and forms.
Another cool plasticine work. Look, the whole sky is made of these same flagella.
And here is our favorite technique of stretching plasticine with our daughter. It is suitable for children of all ages.
Teachers will also like cardboard hangers with passengers inside and string tails.
If you like to use unusual materials, then I advise you to take pasta. What is not done with them! Even the balls are pasted over, as we did with threads and PVA glue. Or they create beautiful design for work.
Felt is also suitable for creativity. It is easily glued transparent super glue... Products are made from it according to the same patterns as paper appliques, so this fabric holds its shape perfectly and has a convenient thickness for work.
In fabric stores, you will be offered many shades and different sheet thicknesses of this material. There is a lot to choose from.
But according to these patterns, you can assemble an astronaut, a plate and a rocket.
They need to be transferred to paper and then to felt.
Make a fabric applique from it.
This template will do.
Or this is not at all simple, but super-duper photo frame with the image of children.
By the way, about the photo! There are still very original ideas with them. For example, to portray a child as an astronaut.
Or use this angle. You can also stick photos of friends or classmates on each planet.
A paper helmet will help you feel like an astronaut.
It can be made thicker and more real by using the papier-mâché technique.
To do this, you inflate a balloon, a newspaper is applied to it, abundantly moistened with paste. Many layers are done this way. Then, after drying, the ball bursts and gently peels off the structure. The final layer always comes from white paper so that you can beautifully decorate the craft.
From sponges and polyurethane foam you can cut out such balls and assemble them into a smaller copy of the solar system.
I think original idea this wreath with stars, planets and astronaut. Shapes can be cut from the above coloring pages.
For home use, make a jet engine with your son from plastic crafts.
An even more serious version of the space composition, which can be made from salt dough, plasticine and even clay.
Plastic ball and disc Saturn will conquer any teacher!
These balls are sold in florist shops. We made a similar one from polyurethane foam. We poured it into the model, dried it and cut out the shape we needed with a clerical knife.
The joint will be fixed with a toothpick.
The volumetric applique will also appeal to everyone.
All its highlight is in the paper spiral that holds the plane or rocket.
Quite a complicated idea from pieces of paper. It is important here to observe the color scheme and shape of all objects. It can take quite a long time, but it looks very grown-up.
More options for simple rockets in different colors.
And now I'll show you how to conquer all classmates and teachers! You need to do something big, like a growth rocket!
In the assembly hall, it can be used as decoration and decor, as well as as a photo zone.
Or you can leave at home, let your son rejoice.
Here is a variant of the exhibition samples.
It's not a shame to nominate such a rocket for the competition, but we'll talk about this later.
A step-by-step origami rocket masterclass?
Origami allows you to create independent paper objects without the use of scissors and glue. Often one A4 sheet is enough for them. And there are a lot of missile options, there are those that stand on their tails, and there are those that are used for volumetric applications.
The simplest version of the rocket is made in three minutes.
After you find the middle of the sheet along the length, you need to roll both upper corners to it.
Then we shape the body.
And side elements. Turning the edge outward.
We repeat the same for the second side.
I will also give step by step diagram, which is backed up by the upper master class.
The origami base can be supplemented with paper tubes.
There is a technique modular origami when a picture or figure is assembled from many small parts of the same size. Here's an example of this technique.
Of course, you won't be able to do it quickly, but hand skills will develop.
And, of course, you need to see how a complex craft is done.
Be patient and repeat all the steps shown with your child. Perhaps he is your future engineer, or designer!
Making a rocket out of plastic bottles and waste material
They are gaining more and more popularity. They are used by summer residents to decorate their site and from them they make homework to school.
For example, using different volumes, you can make such an instance.
Or you have disposable tableware left at home, then it can be used almost as intended. Replace the plastic saucer with a flying one for an alien.
Or convert a bottle from a rinse aid into a flying machine, and even with a photo of an astronaut.
Ice cream sticks, a plastic container, and a cream cheese box can also make a cool plate.
And make radars out of wire.
Another idea from disposable tableware.
And when you have a whole bottle of Fanta and some cardboard, put together a very realistic model.
Aliens can be made from wire and kinder eggs.
Old discs come in handy too.
This option deserves all the praise. People did their best and captured the name of the Mir rocket and lifted our country.
I think you were inspired by these simple crafts so let's take a look at how to make them step by step.
You need to cut off the bottom of the bottle, and cut out the porthole.
A cone can be made using this technique, when one cut is made at the circle to the middle and the edge is superimposed on the adjacent side.
We paint all the cardboard parts and the bottle body itself.
It is better to use hot glue for gluing, so all the parts will be better fixed.
Ideas for the competition by April 12
Of course, all kinds of contests are organized in every educational institution and children are obliged to participate in them. But not all works are then taken to the exhibition. Let's take a look at the options that deserve close attention.
For lower grades, choose a cardboard rocket.
For older adults, offer to make a whole composition with elements of the Cosmos.
It is made on the basis of a cardboard box, which is painted blue or black from the inside. And all the prepared elements are attracted to its top on the fishing line.
I specially selected a lot of photographs made in one idea to make it clearer for you.
You can hang any content in the style of Space: planets, stars, comets, rockets, astronauts, etc.
I also liked the voluminous idea of the parade of the planets.
It is glued together in layers, in which a smaller circle is cut.
This is what the blank looks like.
The sheet with the cut out circle of the largest diameter is placed first, the rest are in order of decreasing diameter.
I would also take a plasticine idea to the exhibition, which is very neatly executed and rather laborious.
An option for how you can make craters on the surface of the moon.
Well, remember about the growth rocket, which can also be submitted to the competition. after all, at such events, they are very fond of large crafts.
I'm finishing up for today. If you have any more ideas, please describe them in the comments below the article.
