How To Make A Wind Vane

You need:

• a ball of clay a little bit bigger than a ping-pong ball.
• 2 paper plates
• a pencil with a rubber on top
• 1 pin
• a straw
• a triangle shaped piece of card
• a 5 sided shape (like a rectangle with 2 small triangles cut off the end).
• glue
• black pen
• coloured pens
• sellotape
• ruler

What To Do:

1.  Sellotape the two pieces of card to either end of a straw.
2. Measure the straw and mark the halfway point.
3. Stick the pin through the straw into the rubber at the end of the pencil.  (Watch out!  Don't push the pin too hard!)
4. Sharpen your pencil.
5. Stick the pencil through the middle of one plate, and into the ball of clay.
6. Stick the clay onto the other plate.
7. Glue the sides of paper plates together.
8. Decorate the plates.
9. Mark in N, S, E and W around your plate.
10. Take it outside into the wind, and see what happens!

We found different things happened with different wind vanes.

We hope your vane works well and shows the wind well!

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