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There are loads of good science demonstrations all about static. If you look back at our
other videos you'll find some examples. Every good science presenter will have some
kind of demonstration to do with a balloon. Let me show you how to do this one.
All you'll need for this particular demonstration is a pair of scissors, a balloon and a bin
bag. These thin white bin bags tend to work best.
And what you gonna do is cut off the top of this bin bag, so quite close to the top. Just
go across it like that and you want it to be quite thin, and cut all the way across
it, so what you'll find when you cut across it from side to side, you should be left with
a hoop, or a ring on the one side. So as you open this up we're gonna find that
we got that hooped shape, that ring. And this is what we're gonna and make fly, this is
gonna be our floater. All you need to do then is statically charge
both our floater and your balloon as well. So you get a nice bit of static built up on
the one, and a nice bit of static built up on the other.
Then you just rub the towel along the floater then what we should get is static charge on
both, and you can use other things for this, you can use your top, you can use your hair
swell, it doesn't matter what you use. So once you've got the static charges just
right you should be able to have your very own flying floater. And if you like this you
can share with your Facebook friends, maybe even have a party and get all the floaters
together and have your very own flying floater party.