Food Creations

Choose 4 items from your pantry, 2 from your refrigerator and and 2 from your yard. You may use either tape, paperclips, or pencils as well. You may use other tools for construction but not in the solution.

Your challenge: make a vehicle.

Create a flower or plant

This challenge is simple, but great for all ages:

Use the following materials to create a new variety of plant:

3 pipe cleaners
1 paper cup
3 paperclips
3 inches of tape
3 pieces of paper
1 marker
3 objects of your choice

The challenge is to use all objects -- when you send in your pictures include the name of your plant!

Cards and Straws Solutions

Once again, Boo and Zee did a marvelous job! Read more about it here.

And check out these super solutions from a 5th grade class!

And, here is Isiah's wonderful solution.

Congratulations everyone for thinking hard!

Pens, Pencils, Paperclips

Can you build a boat from pens, pencils and paperclips? Will it float?

This challenge is to build a boat with pens, pencils, and paperclips or any combination thereof. The challenge is 1) see if it floats, 2) see how much weight it will hold before sinking -- use coins as your weights.

Caution: placing pens in water may affect their ability to write.

Good luck!

Cards and Straws

Build the largest structure you can and send it's measurements in with your pictures. You may use -- one box of paperclips, one bag of straws, and one deck of cards.

Good luck!

Paper Airplanes Solutions

Boo and Zee used their creative minds to figure out how to build a paper airplane without using their hands! Strong work! Read all about it here.

Cantilevers

Using the following materials --build the longest cantilever you can.

One roll of scotch tape
One hundred straws

Good luck! Be sure to include your measurements when you send in your solution.

Paper Airplanes

The challenge -- using 4 pieces of paper, tape, and tongs but NOT your hands build the biggest paper airplane you can. Then, fly it!

Mini boats

Build a boat with water wheel with these materials -- then, see how much weight it will hold before sinking (be sure to send pictures of the boat holding weight -- use whatever you'd like):

a ruler
4 pencils
2 feet of aluminum foil
a cereal box
24 inches of tape
4 spoons
4 index cards
4 paperclips
buttons or brads
string

You must use all of the materials.

Cars

Noah did an amazing job -- He made the car out of a toilet paper roll, tea candles, Q-Tips, Baskin Robbins spoons Mom emptied from her pocket weeks ago, and two of his bath toys -- an action figure and rocket: all items found in two bathrooms.



And here are some other pics:

Orca and Alce also did a brilliant job:

Interesting Link to Share

Thought you all might be interested in this blog:

http://www.mritechnicianschools.org/60-free-science-games-to-excite-inspire-your-kids/

Arches

This challenge calls for you to build an arch with spaghetti noodles. You may use 12 inches of tape. You may use one other item in construction and one in the solution.

Good luck!

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!