One way of contributing to protect our environment is applying the tree Rs to our way of life.
We want to make our students aware of the importance to reuse materials and for that reason we are going to reuse materials or use materials which are easily to find in our homes without the necessity of buying anything.
Moreover, this activity is thought to make our students sensitive to the problem of buying toys in shops where don't mind fair trade.
So students are going to make their own toys by reusing materials. At the same time, making their own toys will reduce future useless toys, usually working with batteries.
They cost next to nothing and look great, and they're perfect for learning how to juggle.
INSTRUCTIONS
Pour about half a cup of rice into an empty water or soft drink bottle (if you don't have a funnel, make one from the top of a second bottle). Inflate a balloon to about the size of a grapefruit, twist the neck and stretch it over the neck of the bottle.
Turn the bottle upside down so all the rice falls into the inflated balloon – then remove the balloon from the bottle and let it deflate.
Cut the neck off the balloon – the rice will stay in the balloon.
Cut the neck off a second balloon and stretch it over the hole to seal the rice into your juggling ball.They look heaps better if you add more balloons for some patterns and colour.
Cut the neck and a piece of the top off a third balloon and stretch it over the ball to get a single stripe of colour.
You can cut lots of very small holes in a balloon by pinching it between your finger and thumb and carefully cutting off the tips – remove the neck and stretch over a ball to make spotty patterns.
Done! You’ve just made some fantastic juggling balls … now all you have to do is learn how to juggle!
what's going on?
Did you know that most people can learn to juggle three balls in about 30 minutes?
It's true! All you need are the right type of balls to practice with and a good instructor (see below). Apart from being fun and very impressive, juggling is excellent for your hand-eye coordination and fitness.
If you watch a really good juggler, you'll notice they don't look directly at the balls and almost never at their hands. They use their peripheral vision instead. Peripheral vision is everything you can see that you aren't looking at directly.
Well now you know how to make really good juggling balls, here are a bunch of links to websites with excellent instructions to get you juggling in no time.
International Juggler's Association - Learn to juggle links
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