My husband used to make these little rockets out of his mom's old discarded lipstick tubes...
We used to make match rockets. Just wrap foil around the business end of the match and heat it with another match, and wooosh!
I lived in a valley and one had to ascend the hills to get to town. One road was a blacktopped hill about a mile long. I road my bike with no hands down that hill to a speed of probably 40+ mph. No helmets, gloves, kneepads, or any of that junk. It was several miles from home, too.
We used to bring snakes home in our pockets and sometimes take them to school the next day. I had a couple escape my locker once. Heh. I never found them.