
Cap/coin grenades.
Basically:
-Get 2-3 rolls of paper caps (those ones for those cap guns that came in rolls of red paper with little bubbles of gunpowder every few centimetres)
-Score them with a knife donwn the middle all the way along the length of the roll
-Wrap them around a 2p coin until all 3 rolls are tightly wound round it
-Sellotape it into an enclosed unit
-Throw it at something. It explodes really satisfyingly on contact. Basically, all the little bubbles of gunpowder go off at once, and as there are about 100-200 of them in each grenade, they are very loud and make quite a lot of smoke.
Once, as 3rd years, me and a coupel of mates made 10 or so of these each. We hid near the basketball court and lobbed them at 6th-formers. There were little explosions and smoke billows all over the court. The 6th formers must have thought they were back in 'Nam (this was also at about the time that we thought 'Platoon' was way cool).
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Basically:
-Get 2-3 rolls of paper caps (those ones for those cap guns that came in rolls of red paper with little bubbles of gunpowder every few centimetres)
-Score them with a knife donwn the middle all the way along the length of the roll
-Wrap them around a 2p coin until all 3 rolls are tightly wound round it
-Sellotape it into an enclosed unit
-Throw it at something. It explodes really satisfyingly on contact. Basically, all the little bubbles of gunpowder go off at once, and as there are about 100-200 of them in each grenade, they are very loud and make quite a lot of smoke.
Once, as 3rd years, me and a coupel of mates made 10 or so of these each. We hid near the basketball court and lobbed them at 6th-formers. There were little explosions and smoke billows all over the court. The 6th formers must have thought they were back in 'Nam (this was also at about the time that we thought 'Platoon' was way cool).