Get Creative: CD Hovercraft
Thursday 27th July 2017This is a great craft activity which will provide lots of fun afterwards.
Equipment
- 1 x Balloon
- 1 x CD/DVD
- 1 x Pop-up Water Bottle Lid
- Strong glue or a hot glue gun
- Permanent Pens or Paints to decorate (optional)
Instructions
- Take the CD or DVD disc and glue the water bottle lid to the centre of the disc, so that the hole in the disc lines up with the lid.
- Make sure the pop-up lid is in the closed position.
- Blow up the balloon and without letting it deflate stretch the opening of the balloon over the top of the pop-up lid – just over the push-up bit.
- Making use of an empty space pull the pop-up lid to the open position and set the hovercraft down and watch it move around the floor.
- The disc and the balloon could always be decorated.
You could try seeing how far the hovercrafts travel or find out what happens if you add a bit of weight to the hovercraft (perhaps some Blu-Tac or Playdoh on the disc), or if you blow up the balloon more.