Elevate the paper airplane from in-class bad behaviour staple to winter break star
So how do you make a morning or afternoon of paper airplane competition?
- Study the YouTube videos and try out multiple airplane models
- Once your group of competitors has settled on a model they like, everyone makes their own. (Or, if someone has especially young and tiny hands, you may work in teams. We’ll allow that.)
- Decorate your planes if you so desire. (Makes it easier to distinguish planes from one another)
- See which plane flies farthest, fastest, most consistently and most accurately
- Hold other completions amongst various plane models
We made the Classic, the “Fast as Hell,” and the Thunder Bomber.
We liked the “Fast as Hell” best.
Pro tip: Use thin paper to make this model as the nose is prone to splitting. (We taped it back together, having used heavy printer pape.)
