Making your parachute.

Today I tried a handkerchief and sewing thread and that worked but got tangled a bit.
So I decided to try a Paper Towel and Wool, and also a Keyring.

This set up worked fine, no problems at all. I held the parachute up and it floated to the ground.

In Image 3 the wool is tied (You can do it more neatly than me) to each corner of the Paper Towel, and in Image 2 all of the other ends of the wool are threaded into the Keyring.

What you can do is thread the wool ends into the keyring and then tie them all together.

Why, you ask, why the Keyring????

The Keyring is for you to experiment with, you can thread things into it, tie a toy to it, a peg, a flower, whatever, experiment, have fun.

Now, the Paper Towel.
You could possibly use a tissue as well.

The Paper Towel is stiff. And because it is that way it holds the wool, string, whatever you use, apart and they tend to tangle less.

I used the whole Paper Towel and that meant a rectangle Parachute, but you can cut yours into a more Square shape and that.

If you have a balcony, stairs, a high place you can have lots of fun with these, or possibly use a stone as weight and throw it up, I once had a parachute like that. Instead of the Keyring I used a stone, folded the parachute, threw it and on the way down the parachute unfolded and the stone floated down, but the heavier the stone the faster it will want to come down. Experiment, have fun.

All the best from
James M Sandbrook.

8th of May, 2021