Rocket+Construction+Process

Time line: 1 day - all night 1. To begin our rocket we started with a plastic wrap tube that was empty. This was the body of our rocket.

2. We cut 3 fins from balsa wood using a pattern that we found on the internet. 3. We glued the fins on using hot glue. 4. We cut a piece of styrofoam for the nose cone. To carve the nose cone we heated up a knife to try and get the styrofoam to stay smooth. The nose cone did not turn out very aerodynamic because after we cut out the shape, we covered it in blue tape! 5. To make a parachute we used an old grocery bag that we found at Stacey's house. We cut out a circle that was the diameter of the rocket, and then cut a smaller hole in the center of it so that the rocket would come down faster. 6. We cut 6 pieces of thread and then after folding them we taped them onto the parachute. 7. We then attached our parachute to a bungee cord by sewing it on. 8. To attach the bungee cord to the inside of our rocket, we used hot glue and white glue. To start we used hot glue to glue the bungee cord onto the inside, and then to reinforce our bungee cord we folded a piece of paper and glued it on top of the bungee cord using white glue. 9. The nose cone was then attached to the bungee cord using hot glue. 10. To make the "engine holder" we used foam that we found in our physics classroom and glued in onto the inside of our rocket, using white glue, in two separate spots. 11. We bent a paper clip to fit onto a dime role to hold the engine in place. 12. The paper clip was then glued onto the dime role, and then reinforced with tape. 13. After we had the paper clip glued onto the dime role, we glued the dime role onto the foam rings that we made inside our rocket. 14. Before spray painting our rocket we glued on a piece of a straw beside one of the fins, which was going to hold our rocket in place when launching it. 15. We then spray painted our rocket metallic silver. 16. After the paint was dry we applied brightly coloured heart and star stickers onto our rocket.

Modifications: Some of the modifications that we made were: 1. We made an "engine holder" out of styrofoam, and it was not supportive enough, so we re-designed our "engine holder" and used foam rings that we made. 2. Our fins were very floppy at first, so we reinforced the sides with hot glue.

Haylee & Stacey's Rocket