Video Of The Week - High School Students Set Bubble Wrap Popping Record

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Hawthorne High School students set a new Guinness World Record on Jan 29, 2013 (Credit: Guinness World Records)

Who says that Swedish kids are the only ones that get to play at school? On January 29th, 2013, 336 students and faculty members at New Jersey's Hawthorne High School got to skip some classes and have fun too. In this case, however, the 'play' involved something a little more low-tech - Simultaneously popping, crackling, and snapping as much Bubble Wrap as they possibly could in two short minutes!

Besides setting a new Guinness World Record for stomping over a whopping 8,000 square feet of bubble wrap, the school also raised money for the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims. And what was even more fun was that the record was broken in the same town where the popular packaging product was accidentally created 56 years ago by two engineers trying to invent a type of plastic wallpaper!

Resources: Huffingtonpost.com, telegraph.co.uk

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  • me over 11 years
    cool man
    • edmodo-anwhpuzds3
      • huhover 11 years
        it was pretty awsome
        • fun fun funover 11 years
          that looks fun fun fun and so awsome can primery school students do it if the schools let us do it it. it looks so tots awsome i want to do it myself with some friends.
          • vpover 11 years
            cool
            • swirlylollypops
              swirlylollypopsover 11 years
              fun!
              • gbwlkGw;ghw'over 11 years
                Thats so cool- I had no idea there WAS record for that! :)
                • Mr ightRalmost 12 years
                  greejgeek its not a movie it a video O.o
                  • greekgeek
                    greekgeekalmost 12 years
                    the movie doesn't work!!! :(
                    • Hi im bobalmost 12 years
                      OMG this looks fun