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Futuristic Construction with The Boy. I'll get directly to it today. Visitors are on their way and my abode needs an overhaul NOW-ish. I'm going for the "illusion" of clean. Wish me luck. Here's what the boy and I got up to yesterday! Tutorial: Kids' Futuristic Construction Set You will need: Cereal boxFoam meat trayEgg cartonPaper bag (or whatever paper you have on hand)Wooden skewersPair of scissorsWax crayonsPencilSharpieHole punchAssortment of round things to use as templatesPVA glue Take your cereal box, open it up and draw out a goodly amount of circles and rings using round things (bowls, cups) as templates. Cut out all the circles. With a paper bag (or whatever paper you happen to have around) and PVA glue, make paper beads by rolling your paper up into long tubes and cutting the resulting tubes into sections like so.

Cut the cups out of an egg carton. Using a foam tray as your base, poke the wooden skewers down into it, pointy end down. Go ahead my little one, build to your heart's content. Look at him. Peace Sign Pillow Craft Kit. 48-6642.

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Use the remaining piece to form a small circle and tape the ends together. Now you have a large circle and a small circle. Tape the straw to the inside of the circles placing the small circle at one end and the large circle at the other end. And you're done! Now is the fun part! The boys had to try and fly a straw without the circles to make sure that it wasn't just the straw that was the good flier. Have fun fllying! P.S.