Rubber band Ball

I decided to do a craft with the kids today. When I made the craft list yesterday, I knew right away they'd love to make the rubber band ball. So after lunch we drove to WalMart to buy the rubber bands.

Since the kids are little, I "cheated" and we started the balls with a sheet of rolled up newspaper.It just took one half sheet, rolled up tight into a ball shape. We started with the smaller rubber bands first, saving the larger ones for the outside when the ball got bigger.

The basic craft is so easy, even my 4-year-old could put them on by himself. And he was very happy to be able to do the same craft the bigger kids were making.

I bought each kids two bags each with 100 multicolored rubber bands. They ended up only putting on half a bag themselves, and asked me to finish the first bag for them. I was able to double wrap the large rubber bands to make the ball tighter.

To be able to tell each kid's rubber band ball apart, I kept out most of one color until the outside, so they'd have not a solid color outside but mostly one color. (To make a solid color ball, buy several bags and separate the colors; then each kid could make a solid colored ball.

The end result was a baseball size ball that's solid enough it would hurt if the kids threw it at anyone, much like a baseball.