Milk Carton Windmill: Filling With Sand

Video Transcript

"Now we want to fill the milk carton up with sand, which will give it some weight, and that will enable us to be able to put it outside and it can stand securely, so when it blows in the wind, that the milk carton will not tip over. This way we can have it stand nice and secure, so the way we do that is that we try not to open up and destroy the milk carton. We really could open up the top and just pour it right in, but milk cartoons today usually come or juice cartons, they usually come with a nice cap, a nice space that we can use to pour things inside, so the way that we're going to do it is we'll make a little funnel out of regular cardboard paper. We just bend it over and you're going to cut the end to give it a nice, straight edge. And we hold the ends together until it fits nicely inside the hole of the milk carton. And then once it is fit inside the hole nice and secure, we can go ahead and pour sand into the funnel, and if the sand is a little wet, it might need the help of a stick or just a long object to be able to stick it inside and make space in the hole so that all the sand can run down. If you're going to be using wet sand it's a little bit heavier, you might not need as much, but you'll probably need between two and three cups or whatever you're using, whether it's sand or salt or any other kind of - you can also use some small pebbles, if they're more accessible to you. So you go ahead and pour the sand in, and this will give us a nice, clean to the windmill. We won't have to worry about closing the top of the carton, we'll just be able to seal it shut with the cap. And it's also important to make sure that the carton itself is dry from the paint that we put on it because the sand - if any sand drips over or pours over the side it's going to stick to the milk carton and it's going to make the whole thing a little bit messy, so just make sure that the milk carton is dry from the paint that you put on so that when you pour the sand in, any sand that sticks to the outside will actually won't stick it will be able to be brushed off easily. And this is the way that we fill the carton up with the sand to give it some weight that it will be able to stand nice and securely wherever we place it."