Today’s activities are super fun for kids of all ages and only require a couple items that you probably have laying around the house.\u00a0 The 3 activities that I’m going to show you are the following: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

• Projectile Launcher<\/li>
• Pompom Air Cannon <\/li>
• Cup Drum<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

  Pompom Air Cannon <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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  This one is fairly easy. Instead of going step by step, I found this awesome diagram that shows you how to make\/assemble it super easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  For the balloon top on mine, I simply tied off the balloon and snipped a bit of the other end and stretched it over. My balloons were kind of small, so the above method might have been better. Use your best judgment! Also, my kids quickly destroyed the plastic cup because it’s walls were too thin. I suggest using a paper cup if you have it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  While your assembling this, get a hypothesis from your kids. Ask them what items do they think will move the furthest and why. We only utilized pompoms for ours, however, I suggest also using something like mini marshmallows and making a disposable cup pyramid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  To make the cannon work, simply aim the small hole towards the items you want to move and squeeze the cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  This activity is designed to get kids thinking about what happens when air moves. Sometimes it is difficult to think about air and what it does because it is invisible. The air cannon is a way to ‘see’ air as it moves objects within its ‘blast zone’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  The air that shoots out of the cannon is a vortex of air similar to rings of smoke sometimes blown by smokers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  A vortex is a spinning flow of fluid or gas. Water going down the drain and the air in a tornado form vortices in the shape of funnels. The air cannon vortex is a donut shape or, mathematically, a torus. The air in the donut rolls from the center to the edge. The air forms this shape because the air leaving the cup at the centre of the hole is traveling faster than the air leaving around the edge of the hole. The air keeps its shape since the surrounding air is relatively slow moving (and under higher pressure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n