I need to find out how to make people out of 2 liter plastic bottles. my daughter has a school project.?
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I did something similar to this when I was in 3rd grade or so. What I did was take cheese cloth (can be bought at walmart in craft section and many craft stores) and wrap it around the head while wet with a flour and water paste. Just secure the bottom with a rubber band, the cheese cloth will create a canvis like surface on which you can use paint or markers. After that I got my brother to spray paint the bottle white and when the heas was dry I hot glued it onto the neck of the bottle letting the end of the fabric hang down inside. For clothes I used felt you can buy at craft shops that is already sticky on the back, but for yours I'd say you could just use markers on the spray painted parts because he wouldnt have really had cloth clothes if he's in a space suit. \n\nI'd sugest drawing a square on the head as a face window and drawing the face inside that. You could also go to the hardware store and get some small riged tubes usually used to secure wire to go from the back of the head to the bottom of the "suit" of the spaceman. \n\nIt would be neat to make space boots out of the bottom of two smaller water bottles glued onto the bottom of the larger bottle and painted white with the rest of the bottle. Good luck!
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Get two plastic bottles and paint one black and the other white.  Put one of those liquid crystal temperature strips on each one to easily monitor the temperature and fill them each with boiling water.  Screw on the lids and you should see that the black painted bottle cools down faster than the white one.
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Use a big Tupperware container to put it all in. I did that for the 11 year old class and it worked just spiffy.
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Get an old trunk or big suitcase and decorate the outside of it really fancy, with glitter, paint, etc. Then go to garage sales and find old dress up clothes like boas, etc. Add a mirror that you can pdecorate with that tube paint. lol I can't think of the name of the tube paint. Old empty make up containers, etc. can be added.\n\nOr make her a craft basket and put some kids crafts that you could do together in it.
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well, first, think of what you want to do. some simple ideas would be to squeeze toothpaste out the tube, pour milk into a glass, or cause some sort of a chemical reaction. just use your imagination. it dosen't have to be complex. just reasonable. good luck!
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You+ll need a large pot, a onegallon vinegar or cider bottle, a 4' or 5' length of plastic tubing (try-airline+ tubing from a pet shop), a balloon or non-lubricatedcondom, a package of wine yeast (not bread yeast), wine bottles,corks, a corking device, and 2 1/2 pounds of honey.First you need to prepare the mixture that will be fermented. Takeyour pot and add the honey and enough water to finish filling up theone gallon bottle. Bring these to a boil slowly. If you don+t wantscum in your mead and it forms on the top, skim it off. You don+tneed to boil it for any length of time, you just need to bring it up tothis temperature. Boiling for a while will release a lot of scum andadditives which you can get rid of right now and it will also allowthe mead to age more quickly. However, some of this -scum+ as I+vecalled it is made up of those very things which can create flavornuances. I don+t boil mine. When you decide it+s done, let it cool longenough so it won+t melt the plastic tubing, then siphon the mead intothe gallon jug , cap and let cool overnight. The gallon jug is yourprimary fermenter.Did you sterilize the pot? the bottle? the cap? the plastic tubing?No! Pour it out and start again - yes I am serious.Once the mixture is cooled to room temperature you will need topitch the yeast. Get a small cup half full with warm, but not hot,water and add the yeast. Let it sit for about ten minutes and absorbwater and liven up, then pour it into your gallon jug and mix it in.As of now your honey and water mixture is now being converted intomead. However, this will take about two weeks, perhaps more, tocomplete. During this time the mead mixture will bubble and foam,and this is what the balloon is for. Cover the top of the bottle withthe balloon and about an hour later, when the balloon has started toinflate but has not become too stretched, poke a few holes in it witha pin. (I understand this may make you wince if you are using acondom.) This balloon takes the place of a fermentation lock andallows the gas to escape while not allowing air in, thus keeping thefermentation bottle sterile. The holes may become clogged withfoam and you may need to poke a few more. Just remember thepurpose of this and use your common sense. I+ve accomplished thiswith plastic wrap and a rubber band, but I wouldn+t advise others totry unless you+re fond of unmet expectations.About two weeks from this point the balloon will cease to be greatlyinflated and will eventually go limp. When it has been completelylimp for a few days and the mead is clear rather than cloudy,fermentation is over. At this point sanitize your wine bottles andplastic tubing and bottle the mead. Be careful not to get the yeastinto the bottles as it+s not exactly tasty stuff. I stop about an inchbefore the bottom of the primary fermenter and we siphon off thelast inch into cups and toast the new mead. My mead has been verytasty at this point, other people describe theirs as tasting like paintthinner. In any case, you may not mind a little yeast in your cup now,but don+t inflict it on yourself in the future by bottling it.Wait two to six months and then enjoy. Since the above recipe has noadditives which would hasten aging, it may take a while for it tobecome truly fine mead, perhaps years. There are a lot of chemicaladditives that one can use to improve the flavor and process. Themost common and important addition is a teaspoon of yeastenergizer or yeast nutrient. Others include grape tannin (1/4teaspoon), malic acid (2 or 3 teaspoons), tartaric acid (1 to 2teaspoons). I recommend all of these chemical additives in your firstbatch, but if you can+t find them you can make do with naturalingredients or nothing at all.One can also add slices of fruit, raisins, or berries for flavor and inplace of grape tannin. One recipe I know of adds some apple jelly. Afew lemon peels will substitute for malic acid and a spoonful ofstrong tea will do replace tartaric acid. Hops are a common additiveand
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Do demonstrations! For volume, for example, you can show a cone has a third the volume of a cylinder with the same radius by pouring water from a cone to the cylinder. Most students guess that the volumes are about the same and it's a demonstration that sticks in their minds. \n\nAnything outside of the classroom is great (if you can do that). Interactive stuff is always good. Get them to estimate the area of the basketball court or other playing surface. Or figure out how many people you could fill your classroom with if they were all lined up lying down.
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How about visiting this site:\n\nhttp://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/category0.html
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have you thought about using pictures of these objects, instead of the objects themselves?  some ideas: UFO, unicorn, umbrella, Ukraine (map), unicycle.\n\nif the teacher won't accept pictures of these objects, just show your distaste for such a lousy homework assignment by sending your daughter to school with a ziploc bag full of URINE.
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Go to http://www.homeschooltools.com.  They have entire experiment kits for purchase and lesson plans online.
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Hi\nYou can just use a simple plastic water,drink or juice bottle.\n\nIMPORTANT NOTE:your rocket may not work if you use a screw lid.\n\nTo make rocket:\n1 Tape a straw to the side of the bottle:make sure that one end of the straw is within 1-2cm of the top of your bottle\n\nTo make launch pad:\n1 Insert skewer into a round piece of cardboard so that the skewer is standing securely upright.\n\nTo launch rocket:\n1 Insert one of the following fuels:\n   1x crushed alka-selzer tablet and 15ml of water \n   1 teaspoon of baking soda and 40mL of vinegar.\n2 Then put on the lid on as soon as the substance(s) are in the rocket.\n3 Place rocket on launch pad so that the skewer goes through the straw.\n4 watch in amazement as your rocket takes off!
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if u want to make a good sciences project and u want it easy take a cup and add watter and then grab a piece of cardboard and and cover the glass and then turn the cup upside down and then the water wont fall ok
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My friend Donna has some great science fair links on her page:\n\nhttp://www.lewismiddleschool.com/Earle/earle.htm\n\nAlso - my daughter won her elementary science fair one year with a great project on earthworms.  We got 2 one-gallon glass jars.  We put gravel and dirt in each jar, about half full.  In each jar, we put equal amount of organic garbage - small chicken bone, orange peel, apple core, small piece of newspaper, etc.  In one jar, we put 50 earthworms.  We closed the jars (with airholes) for one week.  Most of the garbage from the worm-jar was gone.  In the other jar, the garbage was still there.  It was a winner!
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milk glue\n\n(idea) by FredPenner (47.6 min) (print)  ?  1 C!Thu Feb 02 2006 at 3:33:08\n\nDid you know that milk (along with a few other common ingredients) can be used to make glue? What fun!\n\nHere's a few recipes that you can try with your kids next time Science Fair season rolls around at school:\n\nSimple Milk Glue\nIngredients:\n1 Enameled pot (non-metallic)\n500ml skim milk\n90ml vinegar\n60ml water\n15ml baking soda\n\nMethod:\n1) Heat milk and vinegar slowly, stirring constantly until milk begins to curdle (separate).\n2) Remove from heat and continue stirring until curdling stops.\n3) Let the mixture sit until all the curds (thick white bits) have settled to the bottom.\n4) Strain the curds or pour off the liquid (whey).\n5) Place the curds on newspaper or paper towel and allow to dry to a glue-ish consistency.\n6) Mix curds, water and baking soda. The vingegar will react with the baking soda. Stir until bubbling stops.\n7) Store glue in an air-tight container.\n\nThis glue will keep for a couple of days, but once it starts to smell like old milk you should probably throw it away. This applies to all these glues.\n\n\nSimpler Glue\n1) Add one cup of milk and 1/3 cup of vinegar to a mason jar.\n2) Let stand until the milk separates.\n3) Pour off the liquid (whey) and discard.\n4) Add 1/4 cup of water and 1 tbsp of baking soda.\n6) Mix and let stand until bubbling stops.\n\nI haven't tried this glue but it seems much simpler than the recipe above and requires no cooking, which makes it easier and safer for the kids.\n\n\nA bit more toxic Glue\nIngredients:\n1tbsp low fat milk powder\n80mL water\nvinegar\nammonia\n\nMethod\n1) Mix water and milk powder until dissolved.\n2) Add drops of vinegar to mixture and stir until milk curdles.\n3) Strain curd and allow to dry.\n4) Add drops of ammonia to curd, stirring until creamy.\n\nHaven't tried this one either; I'm allergic to ammonia. But it follows the same principles as the other recipes, except it uses ammonia as the base to neutralize the acidity of the vinegar. I'd stick with vinegar for the kids though.\n\nWhy it works\nIt's all about the Casein\nAll of the above recipes use milk as a source of casein, the active ingredient in this type of glue. Casein is a sticky protein composed of complex chains of amino acids that can be used to make glue as described above or even biodegradable plastics. But that's another node.
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I attach links to science fair projects. Without details of your sisters age level, it is difficult to be more specific.\n\nIt is very caring of you to do this for her but she should be the person organising the project unless there is some reason she can't.
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Go to Ac Mooreof a craft store and get some pretty crate paper and ribbon, a soap making kit and make some beautiful soaps, get some pretty scents and some real lavender or eucapyptus leaves.. put them in the soap mix.. and wrap them pretty in the crate paper, tie a ribbon around it and get them a poof or washcloth from the dollar store...find other lil fun things at the dollar store and make them a bath basket  or you can even make bath salts toooo... \n\nfor the kids get them a basket full of fun thing from the dollar store, silly putty, play doh, dolls, etc. the men get them a coffeee cup fill it with hot cocoa package, and some marshemellows in a zipply bag, maybe some candy too... the tie a ribbon around the whole thing..
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You can get help with me if you let me know what is your project about.Or you can visit some of the sites I have provided below.\n\nhttp://www.chemistrymagic.com\nhttp://www.chemcollective.org/applets/vlab.php\nhttp://www.anachem.umu.se/cgi-bin/pointer.exe?Graphics\nhttp://education.jlab.org\nhttp://chemistrygeek.com/3d.htm\n\netc