Hammock

HAMMOCK

PROBLEM: How will we hang the hammock on the house?

STEP 1  Get a piece of fabric long enough to lay on.

STEP 2   Get strong string and with scissors poke a hole on the short side of the fabric and thread the string through the holes but make sure to have extra string to tie it on.

STEP 3 Put rope on the short side of your hammock.

STEP 4 tie the ropes to something stable.

STEP 5 Have fun relaxing in your homemade  hammock.

Marble Game

MARBLE GAME

How to make a Marble game out  of Zoomtool Kit?

Materials used:

• balls

• sticks
• marbles
• aluminum foil
• container

Steps:

1. Construct the base using 6 long blue sticks and two small blue sticks.
2. Connect the balls to the sticks firmly to make a rectangular base.
3. Keep adding layers by using small and medium sized sticks forming triangular layers until three layers are formed
4. Construct a top layer which is a square and rectangular.
5. These are made in such a way that , when a marble is rolled, it shield to the bottom
6. take aluminum foil and gently slide it inside the top layer in order for the marble to roll down smoothly.
7. place a container close to the bottom .
8. roll from the top and due to the gravitational force, marbles just roll down into the container.

Rules to play the Marble game

1. Two containers are placed at the bottom.

2. They’re two players and each player gets three chances.

3.One container is worth 500 pts and the the other container is worth 1k pts.

4. Whoever gets the most points by rolling the marble through the bridge is the winner.

Building a Foosball Table

BUILDING A FOOSBALL TABLE

BY ERIK BOYDSTON AND CAMERON PHILP

   I DIDN’T HAVE A PROBLEM, BUT OUR TECHNOLOGY TEACHER, MR. ALMON, MENTIONED “FOOSBALL TABLE”. I GOT INSPIRED TO BUILD ONE. I DECIDED TO JUST “WING IT”.

STEP 1: I GOT A 2 FOOT BY 3 FOOT AND 6 INCHES DEEP BOX FROM WEST ELM SINCE WE’RE REDOING MY PARENTS BEDROOM.

STEP 2: I GOT 9 ARMY MEN (THE CROCODILES) AND 9 KNIGHTS (THE ALLIGATORS).

STEP 3: I GOT 2 WOODEN POLES AND 2 ARROWS FROM WHEN MY DAD WAS A KID. *PROBLEM: THE ARROWS WEREN’T LONG ENOUGH SO WE CUT SOME WOOD, AND IT WAS OKAY FOR THE END..* WE CUT ALL THE “POLES” THE SAME LENGTH AS THE ARROWS WITH WOOD.

STEP 4: I PUT 4 OF THE KNIGHTS ON A POLE WITH GORILLA TAPE AND THEN WE DRILLED HOLES FOR THE “POLES” TO GO THROUGH.

STEP 5: WE MEASURED WHERE TO PUT THE POLES AND STUCK THEM IN.

STEP 6: WE GOT LITTLE CARDBOARD BOX CORNER CUTOUTS FOR THE CORNERS SO THE BALL DIDN’T GET STUCK.

STEP 7: I GOT A BOUNCY BALL FOR THE SOCCER BALL BUT IT WAS TOO BOUNCY, SO I GOT A LEGO BALL AND USED IT.

STEP 8: FINISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Gumball Machine

How to Build an Awesome Gumball Machine

Problem: My sister steals my gumballs all the time so if she wants one of my gumballs she must pay for them.

Plan: I looked at google images then I saw a wooden coin operated gumball machine. I thought it looked cool so I clicked on the link and  saw the instructions! My dad helped me make templates for the top and the middle.

Step 1: Cut out a piece of glass with a coin slot in it a little bigger then your coin. The glass should be 9 ⅜ by 8 1/6 . then cut out a hole that is a little bigger than your gumball. Repeat this step on a new piece of glass but with the hole and coin slot a coin length farther forward.

Step 2: get a glass jar and cut a gumball sized hole on the center of the lid and then screw it on to the top glass template with the two gumball holes lined up.

Step 3: get a 2 by 2 piece of wood that is 11 inches long and two 2 by 4 pieces of wood that are 9 ⅜ inches long and set all the wood in between the two glass plates with the 2 by 2 in the middle.

Step 4: line the end of the 2 by 2 up with the first gumball hole and cut another gumball hole where the wood lines up with the first gumball hole. Make sure the holes are the exact same size.

Step 5: get a frame that is 3 inches thick to go at the bottom of the gumball machine then attach the third piece of glass to the bottom of the frame. now you have made the gumball machine.

Improvements: I made the bottom of the coin slot have hinges and a lock so i can get the coins out.

Changes: I would make the slot where the coin drops into the coin slot larger and I would put a funnel where the gumballs come out.

Wooden Maze

   The Fun Way

    -    object: we have to build a table and a marble maze

• brainstorm: Riley’s dad and us - Riley Sofia Ellie

  RIley’s dad found a wood board

  He carved about a finger  wide path to make a maze with a machine.

problem - We could not find the right size marble

We decorated the maze with pipe cleaners and a hot glue gun

2. We made a prize box and got the prizes

3. We made a table out of cardboard then decorated it with duct tape

4. we made a box that would hold the money and the tickets       

5. we made a poster to advertise

Cardboard Foosball Table

MAKING A CARDBOARD FOOSBALL TABLE

by Mirabel Levin, Kate Vezzani, and  Ashely  Wood

We decided to make a cardboard foosball table ‘because we love soccer, here is how to make it.

Some changes we needed to make were to make our fabric taped on better so it won’t fall off. Also, we could have made cardboard people, not just faces.

STEP 1):  Rip two boxes of cardboard so they are unattached. Tape two sides of cardboard together to make a soccer stadium.

STEP 2 ):  Cut circles of cardboard and put faces on the circles. Cut a strip of cardboard about a foot and an inch wide. Tape a circle of cardboard on the end of a strip of cardboard until you don’t have any strips or circles left.

STEP 3):  Poke holes in the middle of the cardboard stadium.           ( poke as many holes as you made for the strips with faces.) Place strips with faces in the holes you poked. Leave the goalies you made and poke one hole on each end side for goalies.

STEP 4):   Make goals for the goalies. Color or duct tape  your stadium, your people with strips, and your goals and add green fabric for grass.

STEP 5 ):   Crumble up white duct tape to make a soccer ball.

STEP 6):    Have fun  with the cardboard foosball table. Now that you know how to make a cardboard foosball table, you can make them whenever, wherever you want.

Foosball Table

How To Build A Foosball Table

Our problem is that we had a lot of cardboard and we didn’t know what to do with it until we look for images of things built out of cardboard and we found a image of a cardboard foosball table and it gave us an idea and we made a cardboard foosball table.

First step: Find a cardboard box with the width of 3 feet and a length of 5  3               and 6 inches.

second step:: Draw what you feel like you put in the center.

                                                           6 ft

third step: get legs for the table

Step four : glue it with a hot glue gun

Step five:make the goals with ten rings

Step six:make a border line on the side of the box

Step seven: poke holes so you can stick the wooden stick in so you can make the players for the game

Step eight: put the players on.

Step nine: make handles

And then you will have an awesome foosball table!!!!!!!!!

Basketball Toss

Noaea Bunch

Problem: My house doesn’t have many games. Can I make a game?

Brainstorm: I started watching videos on the internet to find inspiration.So why not make a basketball game.

Need: lots of cardboard

         2 rolls of duct tape

         2 pipe cleaner

         scissors

         puff balls

         gumballs

         tissue ( a plate will also work.)

Rules: If you make 10 or more points on the first ramp, your bonus round is knocking the gumball of its spot. The gumball must fall down the ramp, onto the plate for someone to have it.

Step 1: tape the bottom of a big box together. That way the box isn’t wobbly.

Step 2: Open the other end and tape the corner of each side together except 1 of them.

Step 3: Cut a 6x6 inch square in the front.( the side with the one flap down is the front)

Step 4: Tape the flap that is down to the other 2 flaps that way it stays in place.

Step 5: Put  2 foot long and 6 inches wide piece of cardboard through the square at a slanted angle.( slanted as in going upward the box.) Of course then tape the top part to the back flap.

The ramp should look like this:

Step 6: Grab 2 pipe cleaners and make a hoop out of them. tape that above the ramp( as close as you can toward the ramp.)

Step 7: On the left side of the box( any side actually works.) cut another 6x6 square.REPEAT STEP 5.

Step 8: Make a tunnel around the middle of the top ramp ( the second ramp you made should be up higher than the first ramp.) IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS:

Step 9: At the top part of the top ramp, bend the top part that way it has a flat surface for the gumball to sit on. You might have to redo the taping at the top of the top ramp.

Step 10: At the floor level of the top ramp, grab tissue to make a plate like platform for the gumball to land on.( A regular plate will work to.)

Step 11: Grab two 10x4 inch cardboard pieces to put on the inside ( next to lower ramp and under higher ramp) to block puff ball from falling into the box.

Step 12: On the front of the box, cut a vertical ½ inch long line through the box for the quarter slot.

Step 13: Under the quarter slot, cut a horizontal 3 inch wide line through the box for the dollar slot.( You don’t have to do steps 12-13 if you don’t want to. Your choice.)

Final Step: Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!

Mouse House

MOUSE HOUSE

Problem: I saw that my mouse was getting a little bored with what was in his cage, so I decided to build her a mouse house!

Materials:

2 shoeboxes, tape, balsa wood, paper towel roll, a tasty mouse treat, and of course a mouse!

1.Take 2 shoebox bottoms.

2.Place one shoebox ontop of the other and slightly push it inside of the other leaving a space inbeetween them.

3.Tape up all of the creases so that the mouse can’t escape.

4.Cut an itty bitty hole so that the mouse can have a back escape.

5.Insert the paper towel roll into the front door that was cut.

6.After cutting a hole from the top compartment to the bottom compartment, put a single piece of balsa wood through the hole to the bottom compartment.The mouse tries to climb up the ramp.

7.The mouse retreats and goes back to the bottom.

8.You add another single piece of balsa wood and put a treat at the top of both of them.

9.The mouse starts to climb up the new ramp.

10.The mouse is on the ramp and climbing it.

11.The mouse is on top of the second floor after climbing the ramp.

12.The mouse thinks about going down the ramp

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13.The mouse goes down the ramp.

14.The mouse exits the house and runs through the tube.

Cardboard Launchpad

 CARDBOARD LAUNCH PAD

STEP 1:

CUT OUT A LONG RECTANGULAR SHAPE OUT OF THE CARDBOARD BOX.

STEP 2:

GET A SMALL CARDBOARD BOX THEN CUT OFF THE TOP TO MAKE THE BALL POCKET.

STEP 3:CUT OUT A SMALL RECTANGLE TO MAKE THE FIRST PART OF THE LAUNCH PAD.

STEP 4:CUT OUT A SQUARE THEN FOLD IT IN HALF AND GLUE IT TO THE PLATFORM BOTTOM TO TOP.

STEP 5:TO MAKE THE WALL CUT OUT A BIG SQUARE AND GLUE TO THE

PLATFORM.

AND THAT IS HOW YOU MAKE A CARDBOARD LAUNCH PAD.

Cardboard Game

How To Make: A Cardboard Game

 PROBLEM: I wanted something to entertain my brother and I.

BRAINSTORM: I knew I had some unused cardboard, so I decided to make a cardboard arcade-like game so me and my brother could have more fun.

MATERIALS: Two cardboard boxes with volumes of one and two cubic feet, scissors, paper (optional) and glue or tape (tape recommended and used).

    STEP 1): I used some cardboard to make the the top.  

Height: One foot

Length: One foot

Width: One foot

Volume: One cubic foot

    STEP 2): I used another cardboard box to make the sides and bottom.

Height: Two feet

Length: One foot

Width: One foot

Volume: Two cubic feet

    STEP 3): I put the first cardboard box (for the top) and cut a hole in the top. The hole was at the bottom of the box. The hole is a circle and is about two inches by one inch. I put duck tape two centimeters away from the hole.

    STEP 4):

You cut a hole in the side of the smaller original box. You don’t move to the box mentioned in step two. Then, you put the smaller box into the large box(mentioned in step two).

    STEP 5): You have to make your “person” whom you drop into the hole.

   

STEP 6):I put my name on my construction.  Then, I cut a 3 inch by 4 inch hole in the side of the larger cardboard box.  I cut the hole right under the smaller cardboard box that is placed inside it.  Finally, I wrote the name of the game on

the side of the box, “Escape… From Prison!”

    STEP 7): I put the second obstacle on the game.  First, I placed some duck tape inside the box(right next to where the figure lands).

    Changes: Next time, I will try to do this project with wood and nails instead of cardboard and duct tape