Zen Art With A Water Bottle

Recycle that water bottle, and make a cool sand art pendulum.

This is a nice project for the kids on a day when you can't go out and play. This entertained them for hours. But when you're all done, you WILL need to vacuum, and they WILL need to take a bath.

You will need:

a water bottle
string
scissors
a big piece of cardboard
salt or sugar (or sand)
a needle, or drill bit, or awl. (something to poke some holes.)

Step 1 Build your pendulum

Take an empty water bottle, and cut off the bottom. Poke three hole equally spaced about 1/4" from where you cut. Tie a sting to each hole. Tie strings together at the other end. All 3 strings should be the same length.

Now take the cap, and drill a hole through the top. (about 1/4" diameter)

Comments

[Self-Serving Martyr]

This is a really great idea, but I think it would be better to use play sand. If I'm not mistaken, it can be bought in small amounts at craft stores. That way, you're not wasting food, well, ingredients anyway.

[rtgould]

did i see the FSM on the light fixture

[crazycommanche=US=]

fsm?

[brendangillespie]

I saw it... all hail pastafarianism!

[domestic_engineer]

I never heard of FSM before. Now that I know about it, I am intrigued. Who knew my piece of string that I was too lazy to cut down would be a sign.

[codongolev]

put salt in it to make mazes for slugs.

[domestic_engineer]

That's evil. I LOVE IT. I hate slugs.

[arentnancy]

Nice idea ! If you use heavy paper inside a shallow box, you can pick up the salt and slide it into the bottle, skipping the cup step and the shallow box (such as a lid from copy paper carton, helps to contain the salt. I used this method with glitter for decades. Also, Kosher salt is good because its more coarse than table salt and works a lot like sand. aren't nancy

[stib]

nice idea! I'll test it out on the minions sometime.

[alex-sharetskiy]

cool!

[nevarxxxraven]

Zen art with a combo of spilling salt omen. i love it

[Father Christmas]

well, technically, it inst spilling so...

[nevarxxxraven]

i said i love it lol gosh

[Father Christmas]

lol

[duck-lemon]

Spilling: The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles; The action of spreading out in the manner of a fluid Spilled: spilled - The amount of the material spilled, in gallons or pounds. The amount field often contains an estimate made at the time the spill is reported. Yeah i reckon it come under it, but in all truthfulness it is intentional spilling so we could let this one slide as "debatable, but not worth debating"

[Father Christmas]

i wasn't really trying to start a debate, so i will agree with you on that.

[duck-lemon]

indeed

[codongolev]

it was quite a shoddy argument to begin with, so I don't see why a shoddy person like you could possibly win such a shoddy argument.

also, zoom in below...

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[duck-lemon]

Ha i don't need to given they are all the right size in my comments box on my user page. I FOILED YOUR SHODDILY MADE PLOT!

[Father Christmas]

what exactly is this term "shoddy"? i have never quite been able to grasp it.

[moira.colette]

cheap-jack
deceptive, you know what i mean

[codongolev]

It's a very shoddy term that depicts the shoddiness of the object of the sentence and also is a very shoddy term to use in an argument, as people tend to see it as shoddy. in other words, GOOGLE.

[Father Christmas]

eh. ill stick to my ignorance. if i haven't been able to figure it out by this point, i don't need to.

[codongolev]

OH WELL. OH LOOK, CAPS LOCK IS STILL ON FROM MY LAST COMMENT. there we go.geez, my vocal cords hurt now.

[duck-lemon]

You sir, are a deprived man.

[Father Christmas]

aye. very much so.

[codongolev]

aye, a very shoddy argument there, aye. aye, you know, shoddy and aye are fun to slip into shoddy sentences, aye.

[fwjs28]

sweet ......5/5

[HAL 9000]

cool! i remember seeing one of these at a sort of hands on science museum locally, only it was about 20 feet tall and i think used markers instead of salt. neat idea, love the pics

[canida]

This is awesome!