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!

Nail Structure Solutions

Harrison did a marvelous job with this open-ended challenge. Check out his suspension contraption! Congratulations on your clever solution!


Moomintroll and Snufkin joined us again for this challenge and, as usual, they both did a tremendous job thinking outside of the box! Snufkin concentrated on getting as many straws off the ground as possible. She built a very long platform and pushed the nails through the straws. She then managed to balanced the remainder of 221 straws (4 were used for Daddy's birthday) on top of her construction. Moomintroll made three base tripods using a combination of nails and straws (no tape). Here he is considering his structure so far. He then created a freeform structure on top of his base and reached great heights (and widths). Neither of the children used the tape. Amazing what you can build with a little creativity! See more pics here.

Week Twenty-Eight -- Nails

You will need lots of straws, 5 inches of tape and 15 3-inch nails.

Build a structure with your nails that will hold as many straws as possible and as high off the table as possible. You may not use the tape on the straws!