Yo-yo is an exciting and useful toy that helps develop motor skills, attention and concentration. This simple mechanism will be interesting for both adults and kids. There are even competitions, where professionals are measured by the forces in the skill of performing enchanting tricks with the help of yo-yo. You can, of course, buy a ready-made professional yo-yo, but with your own hands to make such a toy is also not a problem. A little time for training - and you can surprise friends with various tricks.
Let's try to do yo-yo with our own hands from unnecessary things in the house.
We will need:
- a can of fizzy drink, energy or beer;
- liquid Nails;
- pencil;
- rope;
- knife;
- scissors;
- nippers.
- We wash the empty tin can well and let it dry. Then cut off the upper part with the scissors (with the edge-edge). For this we retreat from the edge one centimeter down and, piercing the holes, we make cuts. Try not to have jag marks on the cut - they can easily injure your hands. The opening for opening the tin can should be carefully closed without leaving any cracks.
- Cut off from the pencil a small piece of three centimeters long with the help of wire cutters. The pencil should be round, without faces. To determine if it is the right length, attach trimmed jars to the ends of your pencil. If the gap between them is not more than one centimeter, then the length is correct. Next, in both tin parts pour liquid nails, without adding 1-2 mm to the edge. We put in the center of one container the edge of the pencil and let it dry well. It is noticed from above that we put on the second part with dried liquid nails, inserting the pencil also in the center. Remember, you can not feel sorry for the glue, otherwise the yo-yo will be easy and doing various tricks will be very difficult.
- We attach to the pencil, which now serves as an axis, a rope. So that it is not damaged about the edges of the tin parts, treat them well with scissors or a file. The edges are slightly bent inside the toys.
- At the free end of the rope, make a finger loop. So yo-yo will not slip casually out of hand. Wind the rope on the axle. So, now you know how to do professional yo-yo at home in just a few hours!
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Interesting facts about yo-yo
Do you think yo-yo is a toy invented by our contemporaries? You are mistaken! By age, yo-yo is second only to the first dolls. Prototypes of yo-yo from terracotta discs are found in Greece and date back to 500 BC. On the ancient Greek vases you can also see the drawings of a boy playing with a yo-yo. At that time, wood, painted clay and even metal were used as materials for making discs. And cheap wooden yo-yo allowed to play with children, and more expensive terracotta specimens were used as ritual offerings to the ancient gods. But this is not the limit: scientists suggest that the birthplace of this fascinating toy may be China or the Philippines.
But not only was the game a yo-yo destination. Ancient hunters threw heavy disks in animals, and thanks to a rope these disks returned back.
The new birth of yo-yo is obliged to Americans Charles Gettrank and James Heaven, who in 1866 issued a patent for a toy called "bandelor." But the mass production of yo-yo began only in 1928. It is noteworthy that in the first days of the manufacture of the manufactory, about 300,000 such toys were produced per day.
So, doing yo-yo with your own hands, you not only create an interesting toy, but also come into contact with ancient history.