I used to make the rockets all the time when I was a kid. They were a lot of fun!
Their way is a lot of work, though.
Take a paper match instead, lay a straightened paper clip along the matchstick up to the head, then neatly fold a little square of foil around the head end of the whole thing. About halfway down the matchstick is a fine length. Slide out the paper clip and you have your exhaust port.
Open up another paper clip into a sideways v shape by pulling up on the inner curved part, and you have a launch pad. Light the match as shown in the video and send it into orbit.
I used to form a star (asterisk style) where you would place a drop of water in the very middle and it would expand the whole thing somewhat beautifully.
Also liked rigging two match sticks into the sides of a slide-out matchbox and cramming another between the two rigged ones. Next you light the two abutted heads and the middle one would pop out flying/twirling like a fire baton.
Then, of course, when Sly Stallone appeared in “Cobra”… every kid everywhere had a matchstick in his mouth.
I used to make the rockets all the time when I was a kid. They were a lot of fun!
Their way is a lot of work, though.
Take a paper match instead, lay a straightened paper clip along the matchstick up to the head, then neatly fold a little square of foil around the head end of the whole thing. About halfway down the matchstick is a fine length. Slide out the paper clip and you have your exhaust port.
Open up another paper clip into a sideways v shape by pulling up on the inner curved part, and you have a launch pad. Light the match as shown in the video and send it into orbit.
I used to form a star (asterisk style) where you would place a drop of water in the very middle and it would expand the whole thing somewhat beautifully.
Also liked rigging two match sticks into the sides of a slide-out matchbox and cramming another between the two rigged ones. Next you light the two abutted heads and the middle one would pop out flying/twirling like a fire baton.
Then, of course, when Sly Stallone appeared in “Cobra”… every kid everywhere had a matchstick in his mouth.
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yeah, but how do you get the egg out of the bottle?
i’m hungry!