{"id":3168,"date":"2013-05-29T07:46:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2013-05-29T23:19:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T04:19:37","slug":"paper-worm-racing-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=3168","title":{"rendered":"paper worm racing tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMGP4500-002\"<\/a>waaaaaaay back in 2008, i wrote a blog post about some worm races that we held at our library<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 this year’s summer library theme is “dig into reading” and my worm race post has been getting a lot of hits lately, so i thought i’d update it with the promised instructions for paper worm races.\u00c2\u00a0 i haven’t done this at work recently, but i tried it out with the happy toddler to make sure it worked and we took pictures of that.<\/p>\n

what you need:\"IMGP4482-001\"<\/a>–paper<\/p>\n

–pennies (two per worm)<\/p>\n

–scissors<\/p>\n

–double-stick tape<\/p>\n

–crayons, markers or something to decorate your worm (optional)<\/p>\n

–drinking straw (not pictured above, but necessary for the “racing” portion of this project)<\/p>\n

step 1:\u00c2\u00a0 tape the two pennies to the paper with the double stick tape. \"IMGP4485\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMGP4487\"<\/a>step 2: draw a long, skinny oval that goes around the pennies and makes a straight line between them (see below).\u00c2\u00a0 this is the body of your worm.<\/p>\n

\"IMGP4489\"<\/a>step 3 (optional and i forgot to photograph this step):\u00c2\u00a0 cut out and decorate your worm!<\/p>\n

step 4:\u00c2\u00a0 fold the ends of the worm so that the middle curves up (see below).\"IMGP4490\"<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 step 5:\u00c2\u00a0 race the worms by blowing air on the front of the worm and then the back of the worm through your straw.\u00c2\u00a0 unless you have a very narrow table across which to race your worms, only two racers recommended at a time.<\/p>\n

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waaaaaaay back in 2008, i wrote a blog post about some worm races that we held at our library.\u00c2\u00a0 this year’s summer library theme is “dig into reading” and my worm race post has been getting a lot of hits … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-kid-stuff","category-library-stuff","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}