• 4 Paper Cups
• Corrugated Cardboard
• Thumbtack
• Hot Glue Gun or Stapler
• Scissors 
• Colorful Tape 
• Your Choice of Items for Spinning Portion (See directions below.)

To make your homemade wind gauge, begin by cutting your corrugated cardboard into 2 strips that are approximately (3.8 x 30.5 cm).  

Use hot glue or a stapler to connect your 2 pieces of cardboard together so they form a cross. Try to center the pieces as much as possible so you have an equal amount of cardboard on each side.  

Once that is finished, use your colorful tape to decorate one of your paper cups.  You could also use a paper cup that is a different color but is still close in size to your other cups. Then staple or hot glue each of the paper cups to the ends of the cardboard cross.  Make sure the cups all face the same direction!  

To make the spinning portion of your homemade anemometer you have a couple choices. The first choice is the best one.

Choice 1:   Use an old pen and dowel rod.  

• Take apart an old pen and slide the hollow plastic portion over the end of a thin wood dowel, making sure there is enough room for the pen piece to spin around the dowel.  
• Use your thumbtack to fasten the center of the cardboard cross to the end of the pen casing.  
• Then stick the free end of the wood dowel into a lump of clay or playdough.  (We left our playdough in the container.)  

 Choice 2:  Use a new pencil and a plastic container with lid.  

• Check your recycling for a plastic container that is at least 6.3 – 7.5 cm  tall with a lid.  Use the tip of your scissors to make a hole in the center of the container’s lid.  The hole needs to be just a tiny bit larger than the width of your pencil.  
• Use your thumbtack to attach the center of your cardboard cross to the pencil’s eraser.  
• Stick the free end of your pencil into the hole of your container’s lid.