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Model rocketry is a fun, interesting, and educational hobby. It is also fairly inexpensive (for a hobby). If you like building things, model rocketry is definitely your hobby. You can usually find model rockets and everything you need for them at a hobby or store.
Model rocketry helps you learn how rockets work, how to build them, and how to have fun. A good way for a beginner to get into model rocketry is to buy one of the packages that Estes (the main, and only provider of rockets, engines and accessories that I know of) puts together with a beginner rocket, launch pad, launch controller, recovery wadding, etc.
Somewhere on the outside of every rocket box, it tells you what you need to complete the rocket. If you were to buy the supplies separately, this is what you will need to build and launch your rocket:
launch pad
launch
controller
Estes engine
(the box that you buy the rocket in tells you what size you need)
recovery
wadding
igniter plug
model paint
glue (the
model will probably require either white, or plastic model glue,
or both)
scissors
hobby knife
(x-acto)
pencil
ruler (not
always needed)
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