Boredom Busters

Time Capsule

What You Need

• 1 Big envelope
• Markers, felt tips
• Coin
• Stamp
• Pictures of yourself
• Any small favourite items
• Magazines, comics
   
  How To Make It
  
• The envelope is the capsule. Write your name in big letters and the year, then you can decorate it. Use pictures from magazines, comics.
• Take a picture of yourself, your family, friends. A coin, a stamp. You can always put in Post cards, etc. Write a letter describing what things go on in your life eg school, clubs, TV programmes you watch, Games you play. You could put in newspaper articles or a comic.
• Seal it up and hide it somewhere don't open it for a long, long time. The longer you wait the more fun it is. Try to wait at least one year!

Make a Rainbow

What You'll Need

A glass of water
A sheet of white paper
A sunny day!


1. Fill the glass almost to the top with water.

2. Place the glass so that it is half on and half off the edge of a table, and so that the sun shines directly through the water, onto a sheet of white paper on the floor.

3. Adjust the paper and the glass until a rainbow forms on the paper.

Light is made up of many colors, and when it passes through water, it is broken up into the other colors seen in a rainbow.

Dancing Raisins

What You will Need

Clear, carbonated soda water
Clear drinking glass
4-5 Raisins

1. Pour clear carbonated soda water into a clear glass.
2. Drop four or five raisins into the glass.
3. After about a minute, you will observe raisins moving up and down in the glass. Watch how the bubbles control the movements of the raisins

Moving noisy Coin

What You will Need

2-litre plastic bottle
A coin
Water

1. Place the empty uncapped bottle in the freezer for 10 minutes.

2. Dip the coin in water.

3. Remove the bottle from the freezer and immediately place the wet coin on the top of the open bottle.

4. Wait and watch the coin move! As it moves, it will make a clickety-clackety noise.

Note:
When removed from the freezer, the cold air inside the bottle expands and tries to rush out of the bottle. This air flow causes the coin to move!

Jewelery Box

What You Need

• An old box (about 4 inches in length & width)
• Old magazines with lots of colorful pictures
• Scissors
• Glue
• Colorful buttons
• Colorful ribbons
• Glitter
• Sequins
• Cloth or coloured paper

 
How To Make It
 

1. Cut out little pieces of the magazine and glue them in any way you want to the outside of the box.
2. Make sure you cover it well, and let it dry. Glue a cloth or coloured paper in the inside of the box to make it look neat.
3. Start sticking pieces of ribbon on the sides for a border.
4. Glue the buttons in the corners or anywhere you think it might look pretty.
5. Sprinkle glitter to give it a shiny appearance. Use the sequins for making the box personalized by creating letters of your name with it.

Note: You can make other things besides a box, you could make a vase, Bin, pencil cup, or a picture frame.
 
Tips

You can use an empty Kleenex box, the upright kind, it works very well.

Raw or Cooked?

What You will Need

One cooked egg
One raw egg

1. Spin each egg in turn on a plate. The egg that continues to spin for a longer time is the cooked one.
2. Now spin the eggs again, then quickly stop both of them. Then let go of both eggs. You will see that the cooked egg stays still but the raw one starts spinning again.

Why?
The contents of the egg have more movement when they are raw, because they are in the form of a liquid. This movement of liquid slows down the raw egg and that is why it stopped spinning before the cooked egg. In step 2, the liquid in the raw egg was still moving when you stopped both eggs, so that movement made the raw egg begin to spin again.

Cross Necklace

For each necklace:

• 30" Leather lacing, approximately (Suede Cord)
• 7 beads one colour
• 1 different colour bead
• Glue, optional

 
How To Make It
 

• Fold the lacing in half and hold on to the folded end.
• Push on 2 beads on the folded end. Leave a small amount of lacing below the beads.
• Put one bead on each piece of the leather lacing (from the other end).
• Push on the remainder (3) of the beads onto the leather lacing on both strings.
• Tie the two ends of the leather lacing together in a knot.
• Push 2 of the blue beads towards the knot. (see photo)
• Push the other blue bead that is on both strings towards the beads that are individually strung.
• Place the odd bead sideways (open ends between the 2 beads) and then push the double strung bead down until it tightens the necklace to hold the sideways bead in place.
• You may add glue if you wish to hold the middle bead in.
• Wear your necklace or give to a friend.
  

Skimmers

Drinking straws
Paper
Scissors
Clear tape

1. Cut two strips of paper, one longer than the other.

2. Make circles with each paper strip and tape the ends together.

3. Tape the smaller circle on one end of the straw and tape the larger circle on the opposite end of the straw.

4. Go outside and throw your skimmer into a gentle breeze.  YOU DID IT! You're an inventor of a flying toy!

Now,  add several different sizes of loops and tape on  the straw. try to fly it, what happens?

Stomp Rockets

2 liter empty Coke bottle
10" long 3/4 " PVC pipe
24" long bicycle tire inner tube
Duct tape
Paper
Scotch tape

Slide one end of the bike inner tube over the mouth of the Coke bottle and tape it in place with duct tape.

2. Place the other end of the inner tube over one end of the PVC pipe and tape them together with duct tape.

3. Make a rocket out of a single piece of paper by rolling the paper around the PVC pipe and tape it snugly, but not too snug that it doesn't slip off easily.  Fold one end over and hold in place with masking tape.