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Water Works
Ways to play with water from FamilyFun
Water Swinger
Tip a bucket of water upside down and you'll have a soggy mess to explain, right? Not if you put the right spin on the situation, with the help of this string-handled bucket.
DIRECTIONS: To make your Swinger, punch three holes in a plastic yogurt or margarine container (use a hole punch) and thread through three equal lengths of rope or heavy cord. Take the Swinger outside and fill it halfway with water. Start it swinging back and forth, in greater and greater arcs, eventually swinging it in complete circles. Once you've mastered the vertical technique, try swinging it over your head like a cowboy's lasso.
WHY IT WORKS: The water stays in place as long as the pressure caused by the spinning bucket--called centrifugal force--is enough to offset the pull of gravity. How much force is that? Find out by spinning the bucket slower and slower. The answer should come to you in a splash.
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