Blinds Solutions

Check out these fantabulous solutions from Boo and Zee:

Cars

One of my favorite challenges is to build a car. This time, the challenge calls for using materials you find in your bathroom (anything). You may not use anything that you would not find in your bathroom in construction or the solution. If you can send a video that shows your car rolling, please do! Good luck.

Window Blinds

Using the following materials, make a window blind (and, if you can, make one that can open and close).

Good luck.

a cardboard box (this will be your window)

string
paperclips
straws
a ruler
index cards

Castle and Drawbridge Solutions

Magnificent solutions this week!

Benny and Braidon did a fantastic job! Congrats!





Orca and Alce did a tremendous job as well! Congrats!




Ross, Sadie and March also did a marvelous job! Congrats!







Lukas and Noah did an amazing job too! Congrats!




Selena, Samuel, Solomon, Lily, Josh also did a superb job with their castles with the drawbridges! Congrats!

Castles and Drawbridges

Build a castle with a drawbridge using some/all of the following materials:

cereal boxes
5 index cards
tape
2 pencils
paperclips
2 toilet paper roll
2 spools
string

You may use scissors and markers in construction but not the solution.

Nails and Strings Solutions

Congratulations to the Bray family! They did a marvelous job with this challenge. You can read more here. Here are their solutions:







Orca and Alce also did a fantastic job. They created a "musical instrument", a boat
and a "Chicken on a spit". I absolutely love these!





Simon from Belgium participated for this first time with this challenge and also did an awesome job with the challenge. Congratulations!


More magnificent solutions! Click here!

Nails and string

Sticking with the theme of few parameters and limited materials -- this weeks challenge is to place a box of nails, a board and string on the table. Then, create something.

A hammer may be used in construction but not the solution.

Good luck!

Cool Coin Solutions

Orca, Alce and the Langdons sent in some magnificent coin creations -- congratulations on your clever creations! See if you can match the following solutions up properly:

Eiffel tower, camel, smiley face, piece of chicken in a frying pan, house







Another awesome solution just arrived -- it is a house with a front porch!



And check out these solutions too!

More great solutions from JD and Jackson -- coin house and coin boy! These are fantabulous!

Just pennies

Along the lines of last week's challenge -- place all of the coins from your house on the table. Then build something.

Good luck.

Solutions from around the world!

Paper and Pencils Solutions

We had marvelous participation this week and some magnificent solutions.

Abundant congratulations to:

Orca, Alce, Zee, Boo, Jonathan

Just Pencils and Paperclips

Put a handful of pencils and paperclips on the table.

The challenge is to make something -- anything. If it has articulated components that is even better!

Good luck.

Hook and Ladder Solutions

Congratulations to the only engineers brave enough to complete our challenge:

Boo and Zee.

You can read more about their solution here.

Here are some awesome pictures of some fantastic hook and ladders!







Ish joined in and did a marvelous job! Read more about his creation here: http://whatlittleboysdo.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/make-a-hook-and-ladder/

Hook and Ladder

The challenge:

Build a hook and ladder using the following materials --

a cereal box
2 toilet paper tubes
a handful of straws
a handful of toothpicks or paperclips (not both)
string
tape
2 pencils
2 index cards
a handful of pushpins

Good luck!

Lots of Clever Self-sufficient Fishermen(women) Out There!

Check out these fantastic fishing rods:

Congratulations to Josh and Jacob. You should be proud:






And here are some great pics from T. You can read about her solution here.







And, as always, Zee did a great job. You can read about his creation here.