How To Make Rope: A Child's First Tutorial
My little girl made a her first tutorial (with my help) for her own blog--to show her cousins-- and it was so great I thought I'd share. Here's how you make rope... step one take three pieces of thread, string, yarn or twine and cut them to equal lengths. Step two tie a pencil to each end of the 3 strings (it can be a stick also) Step three pull string taught between two people (one can improvise) Step four spin pencils in opposite directions Step five balling string is bad Step six after you are done spinning the three strings together you are going to fold it into thirds. do this by putting both pencils together. the string should loop around pencil #1 and go back to person #2 then pull the folded string onto pencil #2 making three strings again. Like this Step seven spin string in the OPPOSITE way from last time. (remember balling is bad, but if it balls just pull away from each other as hard as you can... it will eventually work) step eight pull off of penci