Kids Can Do It

Projects and Activities during 'Kids Can Do It' at the Memorial Hall:

Index:

• create your own 55mm button badge with your name on at registration
• use pre-printed design and add your name to it
• or take a blank template, add your name and optionally draw your own design on entry
• or download the worksheet, follow the guidance, and bring your own pre-drawn badge design with your name on

• Choose your Dinosaur then try to find, a simple outline of it - try searching for Dinosaur Outline drawings in Google images for example.
• Print it and stick it on to card using wallpaper adhesive
• . . . or draw directly on to card
• Modify the outline to have slots where legs fit and draw legs separately
• Use the Chompsaw to cut out the basic outline.
• Use hole punch and scissors to cut intricate parts
• Use hole punch to make eyes
• Assemble the model as shown then paint

IT'S AMAZING!

• rock the board to and fro until the ball sits in a small hole.
• make a 15cm sq. picture by drawing, using sticky shapes or printing from a computer
• stick the picture onto card, punch a small hole (e.g. end of nose) and surround with a stripwood wood frame
• drop in a marble or bead (less than frame thickness) and stick on plastic cover with double sided tape

Marble Maze

• make similar to Game
• design a Maze on 1cm square paper or card.
• cut lengths of stripwood to create pathways
• PVA glue to base card
• drop in a marble or bead
• stick on plastic cover with double sided tape

• Search Google images for suitable scary mask designs
• If needed, resize design to fit you - e.g. centre of eyes should be about 7cm apart,
• Print from computer, a full sIze mask on paper and use wallpaper paste to stick it onto card
• Alternatively, draw design directly into card
• Get help carefully to cut out holes for eyes or make sure there is a hole bigger than 13mm so the ChompSaw can do it
• Get help with large scissors or, use ChompSaw, to cut out the mask outline
• Use paper punch to make small holes, or use stapler, to tie or fix elastic cord or string to hold mask in place

Basic Chassis Ideas:
• Push a pointed pencil or similar into a suitable size box to make Axle holes opposite each other
• Cut squares out of good quality card and punch holes in the centre to make bearings
• Thread through 5mm dowel axles, add spacers cut from plastic tube and fix pre-made and drilled wheels
Or:
• Empty two old felt tip pens or biros
• Saw to length and fix to a rectangle of card with elastic bands
Or:
• Grip pieces of old felt tip pens using spring clothes pegs glued to Chassis with PVA (add spacers)
• Stiffen Chassis with stripwood glued to card

MOVING ALONG

JETS, ROCKETS and SPACE

• Construct a basic Chassis using a rectangle of card stiffened by lengths of strip wood
• Add card triangles to make Axle bearings and thread through 5mm dia dowel axles
• Add spacers to stop the wheels rubbing against the sides of the Chassis
• Add wheels - preferably with very narrow knife-edge rims to reduce rolling Friction.
• Use the ChompSaw to cut out a template and make a balloon mounting plate - note the slot to enable an inflated balloon to be anchored easily.

• Blow up the balloon, load it into the mounting plate and let go!
• How far did it go?
• How do you make it go further?
• Could you make a stronger balloon by putting one inside another?
• Did this make any difference?
• Perhaps a plastic fizzy drinks bottle is an even stronger balloon?

• Choose an empty plastic 'fizzy drinks' bottle.
• Find a cork to fit, drill a small hole and push a football inflator through it
• Cut out a card circle with radius about 1½ times the diameter of the bottle
• Cut across to make a semi-circle and roll to make a nose cone
• Mark out 2 pairs of fins and cut-out from card with the ChompSaw.
• Crease, fold and fix to the rocket with double-sided tape or foam mounting pads.

• how high did it go with and without water?
• what is the right amount of water?
• what happens if you completely fill the bottle with water . . . and why?
• does adding liquid soap help?
• do you need to weight the nose cone?
• can you fit a parachute?
• can you devise a launch release mechanism?
• can you join bottles together to make a bigger rocket?

• Cut Bamboo 200mm drinking straws to length and drill a 2mm hole 10mm in from one end
• Make a cut 10mm in from other end and use this to glue in coloured discs to represent the planets Optionally, drill each end of the straws 10mm in from the ends and mount the coloured discs on cocktail sticks
• If available, use polystyrene balls or beads instead of card discs
• In either case, paint a large polystyrene ball or a table tennis ball to represent the Sun.
• Finally, assemble all on a wooden skewer or small dowel and fix into a wooden base (adjust the size of the mounting hole if necessary).

• “Many Vicars Eat Mushy Jam Sandwiches Under Netball (posts)” - can you think of another way of rembering the planets now that Pluto is reclassified as a dwarf planet?
• Find out why the model is called an Orrery