Build Your Own Water Bombs

It doesn't have to be a water "fight" if it's all in good fun! Create these water bombs out of paper following instructions from Boy Craft by Sara Duchars and Sarah Marks, then prepare to get wet!

You don’t have to fill these with water and throw them at your friends - you can string them up and use them as decorations. If you make these out of sparkly paper, or maybe an old map, you can thread them into a garland and hang on the Christmas tree.

1. Start with a square of paper (a page from a comic is fine).
2. Fold the paper in half and then in half again.
3. Open back out and fold corner to corner.
4. Open up again and fold the other corner to corner.
5. Open back out and start folding it along folds 1 and 2 at the same time. It looks a bit like a collapsing pyramid at this stage. You should end up with a flat triangle.
6. Fold point A and B up towards C.
7. Turn over and do the same to the other side. It should look like a diamond with a vertical line down the middle.
8. Fold D and E in to the middle.
9. Turn over and do the same to the other side.
10. Fold the two points at the bottom into the flaps. Turn over and do the same to the other side.
11. Gently blow into the hole at the top to inflate into a cube shape.

Excerpted with permission from Boy Craft by Sara Duchars and Sarah Marks (Frances Lincoln, $19.95).