Price: $19.74
(as of Feb 11, 2025 20:34:54 UTC – Details)
This illuminating guidebook will help young tinkerers and makers find creative ways to use cardboard boxes, sheets, and tubes in easily-engineered projects, including awesome gadgets, toys, games, inventions, and sculptures.
Cardboard is everywhere! For creative kids aged 9 to 14, it’s the perfect eco-friendly building material, and Cardboard Box Engineering is the perfect guide to get them started on inventive tinkering. A working kaleidoscope, a marble roller coaster, a robotic hand, and a wind-powered tractor with cardboard gears are just some of the ingenious projects developed by Jonathan Adolph, author of the best-selling Mason Jar Science. Working with simple household tools, kids can follow the step-by-step photographic instructions to exercise their design smarts, expand their 3-D thinking, and learn the basics of physics and engineering with activities that have real-life applications.
Customers say
Customers find the book provides good ideas and inspiration for building projects with cardboard. They find it fun for kids to create and reuse existing cardboard. The instructions are easy for them to follow, and the blueprints are simple to read. Many customers consider the book a great gift for their grandchildren.
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