Getting Ready for Summer??!!

Its barely spring! Why am I making a blog post about summer stuff when yesterday was the first day of spring!?  Answer: because if you have any young brothers or sisters, you might want to start stocking up now.  This is a water-balloon-made-out-of-paper, so they are single use, and when you fill one up with water, you have to use it pretty quickly.  This is called a water bomb.

 You start out with a square of paper (if it's a rectangle instead of a square, this won't work). you crease it on one side, so it looks like a triangle. unfold it, then crease it on the other two corners. Then crease it in the center.

It should look like this:





Then comes the hardest part. You can see six triangles? Take the smallest four and tuck them inside the largest two.

I find it useful to shape it like a cone while folding the first time.
When you finish with both sides, it should look something like this:

The picture on the left shows what you should be seeing if you look t it through the top.


Then, fold up the two corners to make a diamond on one side at a time.

It should look like the below:

Then,fold in the sides of the diamond to look like the picture(I often have to tape it so it stays put).








 After that, fold the flaps on the top in, then do the same thing on the other side so it looks like the below geometrical shape... a somethingagon...

So here's the fun part; when your ready to use your water bomb, you blow up the somethingagon through the open end(in the finished picture its the bottom part). it will look something like a cube.

                  So here, you see the pictures of before, after, and after.  hope you have fun!