Bouncy Ball Grasshopper
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Directions: download pdf below; copy (green cardstock if possible); cut out; use a tiny hole punch to put holes in the 4 marked spots; use hot glue to attach bouncy ball to the grasshopper by making a "belt" circle around the ball that touches both sides as per the 2nd picture below (the glue won't stick directly to the ball well at all); use a full-size pipe cleaner for the legs and a half-size one for the antennas; drop and watch it bounce!
Supplies: green cardstock; scissors; tiny hold punch; pipe cleaners; 1.25" bouncy balls; hot glue gun and glue
Notes: I used this for the story of the 12 spies ("We looked like grasshoppers in their sight!"), but the 10 plagues or John the Baptist would work equally well; it took a bit of experimentation to get the glue right to hold the balls (my daughter is a hot glue expert or I might have failed); these bounce really crazy when dropped!; I would have preferred 1.5" bouncy balls, but these were cheaper, so I sized the grasshopper accordingly
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Directions: download pdf below; copy (green cardstock if possible); cut out; use a tiny hole punch to put holes in the 4 marked spots; use hot glue to attach bouncy ball to the grasshopper by making a "belt" circle around the ball that touches both sides as per the 2nd picture below (the glue won't stick directly to the ball well at all); use a full-size pipe cleaner for the legs and a half-size one for the antennas; drop and watch it bounce!
Supplies: green cardstock; scissors; tiny hold punch; pipe cleaners; 1.25" bouncy balls; hot glue gun and glue
Notes: I used this for the story of the 12 spies ("We looked like grasshoppers in their sight!"), but the 10 plagues or John the Baptist would work equally well; it took a bit of experimentation to get the glue right to hold the balls (my daughter is a hot glue expert or I might have failed); these bounce really crazy when dropped!; I would have preferred 1.5" bouncy balls, but these were cheaper, so I sized the grasshopper accordingly
grasshopper_bouncy_ball_pdf.pdf |