Quick Bottle Rockets With Baking Soda & Vinegar
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How to Make a Bottle Rocket
Supplies you’ll need:
Corks
Small plastic bottles (water bottles or small soda bottles work great)
Baking Soda
Vinegar
Small squares of tissue paper or toilet paper
Funnel
Pour about an inch worth of vinegar into the bottom of the bottle.
Put about a teaspoon of baking soda onto the tissue square and fold it up (this will create a time-release packet).
This is most definitely an outside project!  You can get as messy as you want. When you are ready to watch it explode, drop the baking soda packet in, put on the cork- tight, but not too tight- and let it explode. Place it cork side down to watch it fly!
You can do it two different ways. Right side up, the cork just pops out. If you do it with the cork side down, the bottle flies up- that is lots more fun!  It happens so quickly that it surprises you!
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How fun!!!!
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Best day!!! I was looking at making a bottle rocket for an activity coming up and just clicked on a link without lookin at the website, and I see the cutest video with one of my college roommates in it. It was so wonderful seeing your beautiful face. And you made the rockets look very easy and doable.
<3 Thanks Kelley! Love you, friend!
Can you tell me if you use water bottles that the cork does not fit can you put duct tape around the cork
Should you also use pencils?
You want the cork to be able to easily pop out. If you used duct tape to make the cork a little bigger, that would probably work, but do not tape it to the bottle. Not sure what you mean about the pencils?