How to Make an Easy Paper Rocket Body

Making the Rocket

• 1

  Measure a 4- by 28-inch strip of paper. Cut out the number of strips you need, based on how many rockets you will make.

• 2

  Begin at the pencil eraser and wind the strip diagonally around the pencil until you reach the tip.

• 3

  Wrap tape around the pencil at each end and the middle to secure the rocket body.

• 4

  Cut off the ends so you have a tube at each end. Fold one end over itself and secure with tape, closing off one end of the tube.

• 5

  Cut out three small fins in the shape of a parallelogram. Cut small tabs on one side and tape the tabs around the bottom (open end) of the rocket.

• 6

  Insert a straw into the open end of the tube. To launch, blow through the straw.