This family activity runs during school holidays (weather permitting). We supply all the materials you will need but we do need to recycle the plastic bottles used in this activity for other children so we regret you will not able to take your creation home!

During this exciting activity children have the chance to design, build and launch their very own water rocket.

How do they work?

Using a plastic fizzy drinks bottle, a nose cone, some tail fins and a few other 'top secret' parts, each child's mission is to design and build a water rocket. Once constructed the young rocketeers use their imaginations to decorate and officially name their creations, they are then ready for launch.

Water rockets use a mixture of compressed air and water to enable them to fly. They demonstrate Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion 'For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction' just as a full-size rocket does.