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Make it Go

Make your own blimp for about a dollar.

1-2-3: Das Bottle Dive! Dive! Dive!

Make a Mini-Motor Turn electricity into motion with just a couple of safety pins, a battery, a magnet, and some insulated copper wire.

Build a Nocturnal Robot using paper clips, guitar strings, rubber bands, heat-shrink tubing and your imagination.

Fly an Ornithopter Build a rubber-band powered bird-like aircraft with wood, wire, tissue and glue.

Make a Frankenmouse Transform a mild-mannered computer mouse into a rolling robot.
Make it Launch

How Toons: Mini-marshmallow Gun The Make marshmallow shooter. Kids all-time favorite Make project!
Make it Stop

Capture motion with a homemade strobe from a modified disposable camera.
Make it Bright

Make Light Dance Bend light through a water stream using a flashlight, shoe box, soda bottle, and duct tape.
Make it Sing

Make a cup into a speaker and microphone with some insulated wire, a cup, an earphone plug, and a magnet.

Make a turkey baster into a flute just add water (and some rubber bands)

Make a Cigar Box into a Guitar with a cigar box, twine, wood, screws, bolts.
Make it Tall

Build a Tower to the Sky Make a kinetic sculpture using dowels held in place by the tension of plastic cords.
Make it for Lunch

Make your own ice cream in zip-lock bags
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