Making A Cone

• 1). Arrange the poster board so that one edge is facing you. If you would like a long, thin cone, face the shortest edge towards you. If you would like a short, squat cone, face the longer edge towards you.
  
  
• 2). Measure where the midpoint is on the edge of the poster board facing you. Make a mark at this point with the pencil. This will be point A.
  
  
• 3). Tie the string to the pencil. Place the tip of pencil at the opposite end of the poster across from point A, as near to the edge of the board as you can. Pull the string tight and press it down on top of point A with your finger.
  
  
• 4). Move the pencil to the right. If you keep the string properly taunt, the pencil should curve slightly towards you till it drops off the right edge of the poster board. The point where the pencil line hits the right edge of the board will be point B. Repeat this process going left. The identical point on the left will be point C.
  
  
• 5). Use the ruler to draw a straight line from point A to point B. Repeat this process going from point A to point C.
  
  
• 6). Cut along the lines drawn with the pencil. Your board should now look like a triangle with a rounded bottom.
  
  
• 7). Curl points B and C toward one another till they touch, making the cone's circular opening, and then continue moving the corners past each other, keeping the straight edges on the bottom even with each other until you have an enclosed clone. You should now have a completed cone shape.
  
  
• 8). Hold the cone together and fix it in this position with the tape.