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In the meantime, we hope you enjoy these projects!
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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