It's Tomorrow!!!!

So, the party is near.

At this time tomorrow, we will be working feverishly assembling all of the chaos!!!
(not really, chances are, we'll be sitting on our lawn chairs listening to music in the front yard {grins}).

If you have nothing better to do tomorrow night, please join us for our yearly excuse to blow something up!

See the post below for all of the details!

So, I've been a total flake about posting instructions to build your rocket for tomorrow night. But here is a general overview of how to build a pop-bottle rocket.

1st you take a bottle. (Preferable size is the 16.9 oz size. We would rather avoid 2ltr bottles. With the crowd size, I'm concerned that we could have an injury.) Either way, it needs to have an opening the size of these bottles or it wont fit on the "launch pad". Then you need weight for the bottom of the bottle. I didn't have a tennis ball handy but I think that is our preferred method of weight. Though golf balls, coins and even rocks will work.

Then you need a STRONG tape. Packing tape, duct tape, or even electrical tape. It just has to be more than scotch or masking tape. We want these things to stay together all the way to the ground.

Then attach your weight to the bottom.

Again, coins work too, you just have to make sure that they are nice and stuck to the tape. Them apply several layers of tape over them to keep them in place.

They do attach nicely to the bottom.

Now after this you can decorate the rocket all you want. My kids have honestly found that "what's the point". The object is to see how high up that cool little rocket will go, and the more stuff you add to it, the more stuff that goes flying off as the bottle lands.

However, they are very cool when they have a nose cone and fins on the sides. We have used construction paper for these, but have found that the different color electrical tape twisted around the side of the bottle make really cool looking rockets. Use your imagination to decorate and personalize your rocket.

Then we fill it with water, and attach it to the launch pad (hopefully I will have a 4 or 5 place launcher built by tomorrow. That's been the goal, but it's been a busy week. I'll see what I can do.

They are a BLAST to see go flying. Depending on the weight and the water, and of course the air pressure from the compressor, the rockets fly REALLY HIGH. If you have any other questions about building your rockets, check with my kids. They are really much better at it than I am.
Remember, we will also have things here to help you build a rocket, if you don't have one when you come.

Anyway, We hope you are all getting excited for our
7th annual CUL-DE-SAC of FIRE!