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We used to make hot air balloons.
You take six drinking straws. Attach 3 together by sliding the ends over each other. Then you have two long 3 straw straws.
Cross those over eachother and put a pin through the middle like a big X. Then poke 3 pins through each arm.
Now you have 13 pins sticking up through a big X of drinking straws.
Put birthday candles on each pin.
Then take a drycleaners bag and with wax paper iron the top shut, where the hanger used to go.
Cover the X with the bag and poke it through the ends of the straws in four even places at he bottom of the bag. Put a pin in each arm to hold the bag.
It takes a couple of kids to do this right, but you hold open the bag while one of your knucklehead buddies lights all the candles. Slowly the bag fills up with hot air and you let it go.
We chased one of these things about 5 miles on our little bicycles, down the traintracks one night and could not catch it.
It was either that or have bottle rocket fights in the park or sometimes soak a tennis ball in gasoline and kick it at eachother.
Never got into explosives.
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