What are Flic-Flacs you may ask?
A Flic-Flac is a piece of cardboard folded in half, with two holes on both sides with an elastic band threaded through each hole, held by a match stick on each side, so the elastic band won’t go back to its original place.
When you finish making the Flic-Flac, to make it jump you have to set it inside out. Place it down on a desk and hold it down with your finger. When you move your finger away it will jump into the air if you make it according to the directions.
The reason why the Flic-Flac jumps is because of the elastic band that tightens the card board when folded – when you let go of it, the elastic band will release energy making the flic-flac jump and flick in the air.
By:Yilmaz, Andrew, Sabina, Min Uk
So that’s what it is. Can you tell us how to make it though. It would be great to make one by myself and play with it. That would be great fun, well after you wrote about it it sounds like fun, at least.
So on your next topic maybe you can tell me how to make one of those you call “Flic-Flacs”.
Ok AllStars,
Who’s up for writing a better explanation of a Flic-Flac?
Seems your writing so far has not been clear enough for people who don’t know what one is.
Why not see what you can do this week.
PS, don’t forget to use our writing charts to help you in your explanation!
Good Luck!
This is so cool, now i know how to make one! Thank you Sabina, Andrew, Yilmaz and Min Uk for teacing me how to make Flick-Flacks, i have made 5 already. I think it’s a great explaination on how to make them, how else would i know how to do it?! Thanks again guys.
We would like to make some Flic-Flacs too – but we need a clear set of instructions to follow. Would you be able to send us some instructions – maybe with some pictures to help us understand how to build our own?
Hope you can help
Priestsic6
Good gob you guys
Nancy.
HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DID CLEMENT GET A SMILEY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:-(
[...] One of these great moments happened this year when we saw a post about Flic-Flacs by the 5/6P Allstars in Sydney. We read it with great interest as a class but struggled with the instructions – so we commented and that’s what we asked for, better, clearer instructions. Well they really set to it and the resulting piece of writing was just great and proves my point about REAL PURPOSE and a REAL AUDIENCE. Take a look. We then made our own and closed the loop by commenting further on these improved instructions. Take a look at some of the comments we wrote back to them. [...]