Making a Paper Rocket
Ready to be a rocket scientist? There’s many types of rockets that can be made but here’s a simple one that can be done at home just using a few common crafting materials and a very special component to provide our launch thrust – YOU!!!! If you need to download a sheet with the template, this is at the bottom of this page and we have instructions below the pictures in the gallery and a video showing you how to do this.
The Gallery below shows Hannah and Dr. Graeme making a rocket and has instructions so you can do this at home..
Required Materials: Rocket sheet, colored pens, scissors, tape a pencil and a straw 
Hannah, a Cobber chemist gets ready to make a rocket 
Awesome job coloring in, Hannah 
Hannah starts to cut out the pieces to make the rocket 
Let’s Build a Rocket Guys.. 
Dr Graeme is also making a rocket 
Hannah rolling the rocket body tightly around the pencil. 
Taping the rocket body tight in a cylinder around the pencil 
Folding over the tip and taping it tight to make it airtight 
Fold the squares in half to make triangles. 
Tape the traingular fins to the bottom of the rocket like Hannah has done. 
Hannah’s rocket is fully assembled. 
Dr. Graeme’s rocket is also complete… 
Hannah’s rocket is ready to go. Remove the pencil and put a straw all the way down the rocket. 
Ready for launch. 
Blast off! Blow hard into the straw making sure no-one is in the direction of launch.
Dr, Graeme and Josh also made a video making a rocket of this so check it out below..
Further Experiments:
So now you’ve made your rocket, what other awesome science can you do with it? Well, after your first launch, you may be asking what can I do to make fly further or higher. Why not try experimenting by blowing harder or softer? Does it make a difference how far it goes if you aim it higher or more straight ahead. If you make another rocket and use no fins or maybe 2 fins only, does it fly better or worse.. Like the real rocket science that is being done across the world, the skies the limit…
Our build a rocket activity is based on one we found on the NASA homepage so check out the original version below. They use a different style of rocket fins so if you want to experiment, maybe make another rocket using their design and see if it flies any further:
NASA Link: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/project/make-a-straw-rocket/