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Printable Paper Rockets!

Posted on July 5, 2012

printable paper rockets
I needed an activity that the 8 year olds and the five year old could do together. Something easy, but fun. Something that could be simple for small fingers but could also be more details for older hands.

Trawling pinterest I came across this idea for making paper rockets at Curious Kangaroos and knew I had hit gold!

To make it manageable for the five year old I created a printable template for him to colour and cut out. Everyone helped come up with the designs for the rockets, then we printed them and set to work colouring and making them our own, ready to assemble.

To make our printable paper rockets you’ll need:

printable paper rocket

My printable blow rocket template, or some paper.
Something to colour or decorate with.
Some glue
A pencil
Some tape
Bendy straws!

You can download the pdf printable paper rocket template here.

printable paper rockets

Now just print out the blow rocket template, colour in and cut around each rectangle.
Using a pencil, roll your rectangle around it and glue along the long edge to make a tube.
Flatten the top of your rocket and tape it closed.
Then pop your rocket over your straw and …5, 4, 3, 2, 1, blow!

printable paper rockets

Filed Under: Activities for kids Tagged With: activities for children, activities for preschoolers, activities for school kids

Read the comments or scroll down to add your own:

  1. Mandy says

    Oh we did that one too, way too easy and lots of fun.

  2. Kate Sins says

    Kate – again – this is a fabulous activity! My boys are going to love it when I surprise them with this. You are genius…

  3. PlanningQueen says

    We will do this tomorrow – can’t wait to give it a go with my kids. Thanks for sharing Kate!

  4. Marita says

    What a brilliant idea! Thank you Kate.

  5. Kelly says

    What a great fun idea, and I love the simplicity of it ~ I know this will be a huge hit with my son, so have pinned :-)

  6. Bek @ Just For Daisy says

    Kate I just love this idea! :) I think it’s even something Miss Daisy could manage! Thanks, will be giving this one a go!

  7. Jode says

    I have never seen this…what a fantastic idea! Love that last pic!! Shall pin it right now!

  8. Ali says

    oooh I love your rocket printable, we are going to have a lot of fun with this one.

  9. Amie says

    What an awesome idea. Love the printable. Thank you! Showcasing your post on Triple T Mum’s Kids Co-op Showcase on Thursday and pinning to the Kids Co-op Pinterest Board.

  10. Kelly says

    One word: AWESOME!

  11. ally says

    super cool
    we will be doing this soon

  12. Debs- Learn with Play says

    My daughter would love this. Thanks for the idea! (and the printable!) pinning and tweeting! :)

  13. stephanie says

    My son just saw this over my shoulder and now cannot wait to do it. I am printing the template now and will be getting straws in the morning. Thanks! Pinned it too for safe keeping.

  14. Tamsyn says

    These are really cute, I bet the kids loved them!!

  15. Caz says

    We haven’t made paper rockets for ages, I know what we’ll be doing this weekend now! These ones look like heaps of fun and so easy to make too.

  16. Natasha says

    these are great!!!

    would love it if you could share this on my link party – http://serenityyou.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/serenity-saturday-47.html

  17. Theresa says

    This is a great idea. It is very creative and uses things that many people already have at home. It would be great if you would stop by and add a link to this post to Artsy Play Wednesday on Capri + 3. It is a new linky featuring posts about arts, crafts and play activities for children. I hope to see you there.

  18. Krissy @ B-Inspired Mama says

    Oh – my kids will love this! We love shooting our straw papers at each other at restaurants. This is way better! Thanks for sharing with the Kids Co-Op!

  19. Krys - Baby Massage says

    We made these today! They were great!!! Thanks.
    I actually taped across the long edge instead of gluing because I didn’t plan ahead and leave a “gluing tab” and I didn’t want to cover any of my boys’ (or my own) colouring in effort.

  20. vanessa says

    My three year old son is going to love this!

  21. Kawanik says

    I’ve just spent sometime with my 5 year old making a bunch of these rockets and he has given them 5 thumbs out of 5 for fun!! :D

    I printed out one pagefor him to colour in himself and then cut and paste the doc into a graphics program and coloured one page in electronically myself – it was a fun activity and I am going to take the idea into my sons daycare/kindy to recommend as a fun activity to do :D Thanks for sharing it!

  22. jackie says

    You are seriously brilliant, Kate!

  23. Heather says

    Excellent activity to do with the grandies at Nana’s house :-)

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