Making hot air balloons

Why were we making hot air balloons:

• We were making hot air balloons because this balloon below was on Dawson Park this morning.

How to make hot air balloons:

What you need:

• ·     A plastic bag
• ·     String
• ·     A paper cup
• ·     A hair dryer

What you do:

• ·     Cut the string into four pieces of the same length.
• ·     Put four holes at the top of the paper cup.
• ·     Thread a piece of string through each of the holes in the cup.
• ·     Tie two pieces of string to one of the handles of the plastic bag.
• ·     Tie the other two pieces of string to the other handle of the plastic bag.
• ·     Put the hair dryer under the hole of the plastic bag.
• ·     Turn the hair dryer on.
• ·     Let go of the plastic bag.

What is the difference between a hot air balloon and a parachute?

• ·     A hot air balloon goes up and a parachute goes down.

 

Was it easy to make a hot air balloon?

• ·     It is easy to make because you just poke it through the hole and tie it to the plastic bag.
• ·     No because the threading was too hard.
• ·     No is wasn’t because it was hard to put the string through the holes because the string was fatter than the holes.