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Can your water balloons survive a big drop? Find out with this experiment.

Supplies:

• One balloon
• Water
• One plastic shopping bag
• One rubber band

Directions:

1. Add water to your balloon, don't fill the balloon, leave lots of room to tie the balloon closed.
2. Cut the ends of the handles of the bags. Tie or rubber band them to the knotted end of a water balloon.
3. Go outside and drop it from a high place to see if it breaks when it lands.
4. Test and retest until your balloon breaks.
5. Try it again with another balloon.

See what else you can attach to your parachute and let drop.

Take and Makes for this project will be available at area libraries beginning, Friday, July 23, 2021. Watch this project at: https://youtu.be/nrhKBIg0sl4?list=PLMEg2Dd0dSFctLfDQxsL5SmuE8zkwQFmu

Supplies and Directions:

Provided in your bag: a paper bowl, streamers, fishing line, assorted decorative materials (decorative materials vary amongst bags)

From home: glue, markers, tape, other decorative materials (optional)

Step 1
Color and decorate the outside of your bowl. Make sure to leave room to draw some eyes if your jellyfish needs them!

Step 2
Cut your streamers in half longways and glue/tape them to the inside rim of your bowl so they are hanging down.

Step 3
Poke a hole in the middle of your bowl and string your piece of fishing line through it; tape it on the inside so it stays in place.

Step 4
Hang your jellyfish up (you can use a piece of tape to attach the other end of the fishing line) and enjoy your new, colorful friend! Give them a name too!