Children's Crafts: Velcro-Ball Dartboard Balls

Video Transcript

"Now I'm going to show you how to attach the Velcro strip to the Styrofoam balls. Now, we should be using a Styrofoam ball that's big enough to give it a substantial amount of weight that it could be thrown and it can be used for for to hit the dartboard. If we use a very small Styrofoam ball, we might find that it doesn't have enough weight on it to actually even make it to be thrown at the dartboard for a for, from a distance that makes the game fun. So, make sure that your ball is big enough; that it weighs a little bit, so that it will be able to be thrown easily. And what we do is we take the Velcro strip, and we measure it around before we cut it. And we don't want it to to overlap; we want it to be exactly around where the both ends will meet around the the the, around the entire ball. So we, first we measure, then we give it a cut. Now, the Velcro strips usually have tape on the back, so you won't really need to glue them to the ball if you're using these Velcro strips that have tape. But before we do that, we go ahead and cut the strip in half, because if the the Velcro strip was used in its, in its full width, it would hang over the sides of the ball. It just wouldn't be comfortable; it wouldn't fit nicely, sit nicely onto the ball. So we take the thin strip and put it around the outside of the ball. If there's a little bit left over that looks like it's going to overlap the other side, we should go ahead and cut that. And now we have one strip around the ball. We see how it sits nice and clean. It's because we cut it in half. The width is is good enough that it sits nice and clean on the surface of the ball. And we're going to go ahead and take the second strip and put it in the other direction around and it could go over the, it doesn't; it's okay if it overlaps the the first strip, but it shouldn't have anything hanging over where where the ball meets. The reason why we put the two strips around the ball is because we want to give the ball more of a chance to stick once it's thrown at the dartboard. So this is how we cover the ball with the Velcro strips. We do it to three balls, all in an identical fashion, with two strips going around the opposite directions around the entire circumference of the ball."