Art for Kids: How to Make a Zoom Ball

Video Transcript

"For this clip I'm going to show you how to make a zoom ball on a piece of string, a very easy job which we'll zoom around like a firework wheel on a piece of string. For this clip you need some silver foil, cooking foil, sticky tape, some streamers, nice shiny ones if you've got them, a bit of scrap paper and some string. To make a zoom ball with a streamer going behind it first you need some scrap paper, screwed up nice and round into the middle of that, put some streamers of tinsel and sticky tape them in so they shouldn't come out and make sure the scrap paper is found that right round it. Then you need to wrap the whole thing into some silver foil, mind the sharp edges so you don't cut your fingers and be careful you'll be fine with that. As you are getting towards the end of it put the string on some more sticky tape and fasten that into the center. So I fasten the sticky tape and the string into the middle and then roll it all up into a round ball, make it as round as you can by pushing and pushing you should get quite a nice firm ball. So the string is coming out of one end of it and the streamer out of the other and that is the job finished. But then you need to experiment and you'll find that you can wrap it round like that. You can have it going in a figure of eight, down and up and down and up and down and up and if you are outside and you are able to do this in a safe place you can get it going round really really fast like a firework and let go so it zooms right high as the trees and is great fun. You might be able to catch it and that's how to make a zoom ball on a string from things you find in your house."