Hover crafts

We were recently kindly gifted some excess CDs from a local choir. We decided to use these CDs as an inspiration to plan our take time activity for the week. After doing some research I discovered that we could use them to make hover crafts.

To start our construction the students had to decorate their CDs (purely for aesthetically reasons) and hammer a hole into a bottle cap.

These two parts were then hot glued together ready for hovering.

Attaching the balloon was the trickiest part and the students had to do this with a buddy. The students persevered though and the hover crafts were a great success. It would be interesting to use these hover crafts as a science experiment looking at the effect of different airflow.