The rules of the game Ten things you didn't know about conkers. First you will need to find your conkers. You will find them on the ground by horse chestnut trees. Collect as many as you can, as some won't be as good as the others. Once you get home, break open the prickly green cases to reveal the shiny conker. You need to choose a conker that is uncracked, firm and symmetrical. When you've chosen your conker, you need to prepare it so it strong enough to be the champion conker!
Put your conker into the vinegar and leave for two minutes - no more! Make sure you use the timer. Make sure an adult does this for you. Put your conker in the oven for one minute and 30 seconds. Take you conker out of the oven and leave on a hard surface until lukewarm. When the conker is cool enough to pick up, ask an adult to pierce a hole in your conker. To win at conkers you need to have the toughest conker. There are various simple methods for this and I have tried and tested them all but here is a good web guide to winning at conkers.
Making your conker tough is the key so here are some ideas. Bake your conker By baking your conker in the oven at a very low heat please check with an adult before doing this you will toughen it and this makes your conker less likely to crack under pressure! You need to leave it in the oven long enough to make it tough without making the outside wrinkly.
THE ONLY way to actually harden conkers , despite what many people say, is to store them in a cool, dry place for at least one year. It is best to store about twenty or more in a shoebox in a garage. Many of the conkers will go mouldy and the insides will become full of a green dusty substance, but one should survive. Jordan Diouf Professional. What does vinegar do to conkers? Lavonna Virella Professional. How do you keep conkers shiny?
Ask a grown up to use some some clear nail varnish, and get painting! Cover your conker in the clear varnish, wait for it to dry and then do a second coat. Pros: it's easy to do, and it'll make your conker super strong. Cons: it can make your conker look shiny , so all your friends might be onto you!
Alondra Kufer Professional. How do you make conkers hardest? Methods include: soaking or boiling the conkers in vinegar or salt water, soaking in paraffin, partially baking them for in the oven to harden the case, coating with clear nail-varnish, filling them with glue or simply storing them in the dark for a year. Yiying Goulden Explainer. How do you stop conkers from going Mouldy? Glennis Goraigazu Explainer. Can you roast conkers? Inside, the conkers are round and glossy. Sweet chestnut cases have lots of very fine spikes — so they look like little green hedgehogs!
Open up the sweet chestnut and you 'll find two or three nuts inside. And unlike conkers , chestnuts are really tasty when roasted. Jun Srimal Explainer. Why are conkers called conkers? The first recorded game of Conkers using horse chestnuts was on the Isle of Wight in The name may come from the dialect word conker , meaning "knock out" perhaps related to French conque meaning a conch, as the game was originally played using snail shells and small bits of string.
Assitan Quilumba Pundit. What can you make with conkers? Ten things to do with conkers. Decorate them and hang them on your Christmas tree. You can paint them, sprinkle them with glitter… Keep spiders away. Conkers release a handy chemical that spiders seem to hate. Science experiments. Make a friendship bracelet. Make a good luck charm. Play boules.
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