How to Make Paper Helicopters

You'll seem to float through the air while watching your hover craft helicopter levitate.

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How to Make a Hover Craft Helicopter:

Step 1: With a compass, draw a four-inch circle on the cardboard. Cut out. Center the squirt-bottle cap on the cardboard circle and trace around it with a pencil.

Step 2: With the help of an adult, use the craft knife to cut out the center circle, cutting through the top two layers of cardboard only. Peel away these two layers of the center circle, leaving the bottom layer intact.

Step 3: With an adult's help, use the craft knife to cut a 1/4-inch square hole in the center of the bottom layer. Push the bottle cap down into the circle. It should fit firmly and tightly. (Remove cap before painting and decorating the cardboard.)

Step 4: Push bottle cap back into the center circle. Paint both sides of the circle, letting paint dry on one side before painting the other side. Let dry. Decorate the top with binder reinforcements. Add silver rays with glitter glue. Let dry

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With some strips of paper and a few paper clips, you can create a mini papercopter that spins like a real helicopter.

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How to Make Papercopter:

Step 1: Fold a 1X10-inch strip of paper in half. Fold the ends down about two inches, but don't fold them straight down. Instead, fold them at a slight angle.

Step 2: Push a paper clip onto the bottom, and fold the wings out. Decorate your papercopter with markers or crayons. Holding your papercopter by the paper clip, throw it into the air and watch it spin.

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Fun to make and even more fun to fly, the whirly bird helicopter twirls through the air.

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How to Make a Whirly Bird Helicopter:

Step 1: Download the Helicopter Pattern as a PDF. Place tracing paper over the pattern, and secure with paper clips. With a pencil, trace over all the lines, including cutting and folding lines. Use a ruler to help trace straight lines. Remove tracing paper from the pattern.

Step 2: Place carbon paper between the cardstock and the tracing paper pattern. Paper clip the three together and trace over all the lines to transfer the pattern onto the cardstock. Remove the clips. Cut out. Make the three cuts as indicated on the pattern.

Step 3: Fold section C forward and section D backward. Bend the stem up at E. Fold A forward and B backward. Decorate with stickers.

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