Rocket Power Paper Rocket

Rocket power paper rocket
©2007 Publications International, Ltd.
Make the rocket
power paper rocket.

If you're looking for a cool paper airplane challenge, try making the rocket power paper rocket.

You provide the power to send this rocket into outer space.

Get started on this great paper airplane project by downloading and printing a PDF of the Rocket Power paper airplane pattern.

What You'll Need:
  • Construction paper: yellow, red
  • Paper towel tube
  • Bright-patterned wrapping paper, 7 1/2 x 6 inches
  • Drinking straw
  • Red card-stock
  • Red adhesive star stickers
  • 25 feet red crochet thread
  • Craft stick
  • Small pony bead
  • Large balloon
Tools:
  • Compass
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • Ruler
  • Craft glue
  • Tracing paper
  • Masking tape

How to make the rocket power paper rocket:

Step 1: Use a compass to draw a 5 1/2-inch circle on yellow paper. Cut out the circle. Fold the circle in half. Make a crease along the fold line. Unfold the circle. Cut along the creased line.

Cut along the creased line when making the rocket power paper rocket.
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Cut along the creased line.


Step 2: Make a cone shape that extends 1/4 inch beyond the paper towel tube's edge when it is placed on top of the tube. Glue overlapped edges of the cone in place. Discard the other half of the circle.

Make a cone shape out of the circle when making the rocket power paper rocket.
©2007 Publications International, Ltd.
Make a cone shape.


Step 3: Apply a narrow ring of glue around the top edge of the tube. Place the cone on top of the tube, center it, and then push excess paper down, smoothing it into glue. Let dry. Cut the tube down to a 7-inch length.


Place the cone on top of the tube when making the rocket power paper rocket.
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Place the cone on
top of the tube.


Step 4: Lay the wrapping paper face down, and run a line of glue across the top edge and down one side. Lay the tube on the paper, lining up the top edges.

Press the glued edge of the paper to the tube, making sure it is straight. Roll the tube across the paper, applying glue to the tube as it rolls along.


Roll the tube across the paper when making the rocket power paper rocket.
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Roll the tube across
the wrapping paper.


Step 5: Push the extra 1/2-inch of paper at the bottom to the inside of the tube.


Push the extra paper at the bottom to the inside of the tube when making the rocket power paper rocket.
©2007 Publications International, Ltd.
Push the extra paper
inside of the tube.


Step 6: Cut the straw to 4 inches, and glue it securely to the center of 1 side of the rocket. Allow to dry.


Glue the straw to the center of one side of the rocket when making the rocket power paper rocket.
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Glue the straw to the
center of one side.


Step 7: Cut a 1 x 6-inch strip of red paper. Use scissors to fringe one long side. Glue it around the top edge of the rocket, under the cone. Decorate the cone with stickers.

Fringe one long side of the paper on the rocket power paper rocket.
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Fringe one long side.


Step 8: Make two copies of the fin pattern using tracing paper and card-stock. Cut out. Fold tabs on the dotted lines.


Make two copies of the fin pattern when making the rocket power paper rocket.
©2007 Publications International, Ltd.
Make two copies
of the fin pattern.


Step 9: Wrap thread around the craft stick. Thread the loose end through the straw from bottom to top. Slip the bead onto the thread, and tie a loop large enough to go over a doorknob. Make sure the bead is in the loop.


Make sure the bead is in the loop when making the rocket power paper rocket.
©2007 Publications International, Ltd.
Make sure the bead
is in the loop.


Step 10: Glue fins to the bottom of the rocket, placing them across from each other, with the straw centered between them.


Glue fins to the bottom of the rocket to make the rocket power paper rocket.
©2007 Publications International, Ltd.
Glue fins to the
bottom of the rocket.


Step 11: Roll a 3-inch piece of masking tape into a loop, with the sticky side out. Stick the tape 2 inches up from the bottom edge of the rocket, on the side opposite the straw.


Stick the tape 2 inches up from the bottom edge of the rocket to finish the rocket power paper rocket.
©2007 Publications International, Ltd.
Stick the tape to the
bottom edge of the rocket.


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