This DIY stomp rocket is likely one of the easiest issues I’ve ever made and works amazingly properly! Even our heavy kitchen roll and cardboard rocket flew excessive up into the air.
All you could make your individual stomp rocket is an empty 2-litre plastic bottle, plastic tubing and paper. It’s that straightforward!
As soon as the stomp launcher is made, youngsters can experiment with rockets made out of completely different supplies to see which fly the furthest.
The right way to make the simplest stomp rocket ever!
You’ll want
An empty 2l plastic bottle
Plastic tubing
Tape
Paper/card
Felt tip pens
Directions – DIY Stomp Rocket
Connect the plastic tubing to the top of the plastic bottle. My tubing screwed on tightly, but when it’s free, you may have to tape it so no air can escape.
Make a rocket from both a kitchen roll/paper towel tube or a roll of paper.
Seal one finish of the rocket with paper or tape.
Enhance the rocket – elective.
Place the rocket on the top of the tubing and squeeze the bottle exhausting. The rocket will shoot up into the air.
We additionally experimented with a bit of paper folded over and sealed on the facet and prime, which labored very well.
In case you have any completely different designs for a do-it-yourself stomp rocket, I might like to see them!
How does a stomp rocket work?
Once you bounce onto the plastic bottle, the air is compelled out by way of the plastic tubing. The drive of the air hitting the rocket pushes it into the air.
DIY Stomp Rocket – Extension Concepts
Arrange an investigation to find out if making a rocket heavier means it doesn’t journey as far.
Change the size of the plastic tubing to analyze how the flight of the rocket adjustments.
Attempt pointing the top of the stomp rocket straight up after which ahead to learn how the trajectory of the rocket’s flight adjustments.
Purchase a stomp rocket launcher and examine it to your do-it-yourself model.
Extra rocket science concepts for teenagers
A water-powered bottle rocket is probably the most highly effective rocket we’ve made. The sort of rocket shoots upwards in a short time, so bear in mind to face properly again!
My straw rockets are very straightforward to make and a superb, easy rocket STEM problem.
A squeezy bottle rocket is a enjoyable indoor rocket exercise.
Watch a video of an actual rocket launch! This one beneath is wonderful because the boosters come again to down Earth and land in a selected place!
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Forces
Gravity
Mass
Final Up to date on January 30, 2024 by Emma Vanstone
