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Pulling Strings
Show your child how to break a string with her bare hands
Share this amazing trick with your child, and you'll have her feeling like the strongest kid on earth.
- What You Need
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- Yarn, string, or lightweight cotton
- Instructions
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Help her select a piece of yarn, string, or lightweight cotton that's at least 3 feet long. Loosely wrap one end around her left forefinger a few times, leaving a loop in her palm and letting the rest of the string hang down behind her hand, as shown. -
Help her bring the hanging string up and through the loop in her palm. -
Wrap the remaining length of string around her right hand several times. -
Now have her clench both hands into fists, grasping the string tightly, then quickly yank apart her hands. -
She should find that the string breaks easily. Here's why: passing the string through the loop in her palm in step 2 focuses the force of her pull on that small area, right where the string intersects itself, making the string cut through itself.
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