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Matchstick Rocket, Make A Simple Matchstick Rocket, Rockets

video Matchstick Rocket, Make A Simple Matchstick Rocket, Rockets

How to make a rocket with matchstick and tin foil. Make a homemade rocket with matchsticks and tin foil. Launch a matchstick into orbit. Matchstick Rocket. Matchstick... More missile. Make a simple matchstick rocket.

12 comments

Jun 24, 2010. 4:11 AM92033 says:

A ''Match Holder-Upper". :-) Just stick the end in a small block of styrafoam to hold it up at an angle.

Mar 20, 2008. 2:22 PMtheosullis says:

I want to make a rocket that goes extremely high and very loud out of HOUSEHOLD stuff any one no how?

Jan 23, 2010. 11:51 PM

Kryptonite says:

Get a party popper, half fill the bottom bit with cap gun caps, fill the rest with sparkler stuff, put the cardboard thing back on. Rap the outsides with duct tape and then add a fuse through the bottom. Light the fuse. Stand back. Have fun and stay safe.

Mar 21, 2008. 6:56 PMfinnster says:

put a valve in a water bottle 1/3 filled with water and pump it up

Nov 26, 2009. 5:28 AMColonel88 says:

Ehs it would be more effective if you put vents into it.
This had been done before here.
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May 4, 2009. 2:12 AMhaydes says:

yes we have there are heaps of instructables on this websitestake a look

Apr 13, 2009. 12:17 PMpyro4226 says:

has any one heard of bottle rockets???

Aug 18, 2008. 11:24 AMpyrogoth says:

there is actually a better way of making these which can shove them much much further away. you cut a matchstick head off and place it on the foil and then u use a safety pen or a paper clip in-able 2 form the hole to the end.also if you only use enough foil for about 4 wraps it will fire sooner but make it more acceptable 2 bursting open at the side.