[randog]

Yeah, no kid will want to try this at home. Children aren't naturally curious.

Next week's lesson--The Dangers of Gunpowder Learned by Making It.

</sarcasm>

[nevergore]

Hey...When I was 14 years old I used to make gunpowder!

I also used to make small fertilizer pipe-bombs to blow up old tree stumps....

My buddy and I once blew up a stump but instead of it dislodging from the ground it splintered sending shards 150 yards. One embedded in the tree we were standing behind for cover....

Lucky we were not killed with the harebrained garbage we used to pull.

Of course I would not teach any kids that!

NeverGore :^)

[cynwoody]

Next week's lesson--The Dangers of Gunpowder Learned by Making It.

Class, next week's project will be off the beaten path — a Cremora bomb ...

Pyropalooza, 2004     Click here for another example (large).

Skylighter recommends adding aluminum powder for extra brightness and substituting high-fat calf's milk substitute for the Cremora.