How to Make Paper Rockets Fold

Video Transcript

"So you don't have two billion dollars to build your own rocket ship? Well, I'll tell you what. I'll show you how to make one for about a dollar. My name is Robert Segundo, and what we're going to do today is we're going to start with a... This is just basically a paper towel tube, and I've rolled it with a piece of paper just to give it some color. What we're going to do is we need to roll a top for this, so take a piece of paper here and just basically going to take it, roll it into a funnel, maybe. There we go. That's something close. Just take a little piece of tape here, and we'll tape it off. There we go. Just tape it off at the bottom down here somewhere, and what we'll do... It's a bit long, so let's just cut it off. There we go. What we're going to do is we'll just stuff this down at the top here like so. There we go. If you want to... Let's go ahead and do that. Let's go ahead and add a little piece of tape to the top of that just so it stays on. There we go. This is just some fun stuff to do. Don't use too much tape now or you will exceed your two billion dollars. Just top it off a little bit. There we go. Now, what I've done here is I've cut out some fins out of some cardboard here -- just some little shapes. And what I've done: I've split one from the top down and one from the bottom up. Just take them, and we'll put them together like that. Take your little rocket here, and we'll cut four lines in him like so, or something close to that. And just pop it on the bottom. Look at her. Look at her. Just as good as a NASA rocket. I'm Robert Segundo. Have fun playing with your paper rocket."