• Make a copy of the Straw Rocket Template on plain copy paper. 

  Color the three DIY straw rockets with markers, colored pencils, or crayons in a design of your choice. The rectangles roll the long direction- in case your design needs to go a certain way. 

  Cut the pieces out noting which is rocket straw #1, #2, and #3 (#3 has three parts). You can cut them out one at a time if you prefer.

Rocket #1

• Take the rectangle piece of paper and roll it (long direction) onto a pencil. Tape the paper along the edge to keep it in a tube shape but don’t tape it to the pencil.

  Slide it off the pencil. Fold one end about ¼ inch and tape it in place to keep air from escaping. Put the tube on a straw to use as a straw rocket launcher. Blow through the end of the straw to launch and watch the rocket fly.

  Note: Do not blow the straw rockets at people.

Rocket #2

• Cut a larger smoothie straw to about 4 inches long. This larger straw should be about ⅜ inches in diameter. Tape the rocket shape lengthwise onto the larger straw.

  Place a smaller drinking straw into the larger straw as a straw rocket launcher. Blow through this straw and watch the paper rocket straw “blast off”!

Rocket #3

• Rocket #3 has three parts on the rocket straw template- a rectangle piece and two fins. Wrap the paper rectangle piece around a pencil and tape it in this tube shape. Don’t tape the tube to the pencil.

  Slip the tube to the end of the pencil point. Twist the point of the paper tube around the pencil point to make a nose cone for the rocket. Use a small piece of tape to keep the cone in place. 

  Bend each of the fins along the two dotted lines. Tape them onto the open end, the bottom of the rocket. Place one on each side of the tube with the wide end of the fins at the bottom. 

  Slide the rocket off the pencil. Place a straw in the straw rocket tube as a launcher. Blow and launch the rocket! This rocket has a pointed end so I remind you again not to blow it towards people.