Holiday Challenge Solutions -- Tremendous Trees

Again, apologies for the delays in posting. Please go back and see the new solutions added to the rock challenge, the hands free art challenge, the marshmallow arch challenge and the hat challenge.

7-year old Tucker was joined by his parents in this challenge. Tucker did a terrific job with his tree(a classic cone with slits). His dad, Jeff (47) drew upon his Swedish ancestry to make his tree and his mom made two Seussian trees (Cindi, 42). We Older brother Jackson worked on a cone then went with making beautiful foil angels. Dad was the only one to find a good use for the twisty noodles. You guys should be proud!






9 year Michaela constructed a tremendous tree in almost Northern Ontario, Canada! you should be proud!




Over at School for Us, Alexandra's grandma, mom, and Alexandra made some awesome trees! Check out the post here.

Holiday Challenge

Your challenge is to build a tree using only the materials below. It should support as many birds/ornaments as possible. The jelly beans or pennies will represent the birds/ornaments. The tree must be constructed on a flat surface. The tree must have a trunk, branches and leaves.

2 sheets of paper
4 inches of tape or 4 mailing labels
2 drinking straws
5 noodles (any kind)
3 spaghetti noodles
10 inches of string
1 piece of chewing gum
3 paperclips
1 6” square aluminum foil
And, lots of jelly beans or pennies (these are the birds/ornaments).

As always, send us your results and pictures!