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Here’s a super simple toy: a plastic bubble tip for a paper airplane. Dip it in bubble solution and leave a puff of bubbles as the plane darts away!
Toy Inventor’s Notebook: Bubble Plane
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Re-create this trick postage stamp to make pop-up toys and cards.
Toy Inventor’s Notebook: Fun With Pop-Up Stamps
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Experiment with the world’s lowest-flying aircraft.
Make a Mini Ground Effect Vehicle
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Fold and fly the Guinness-record glider “Suzanne”
World’s Best Paper Airplane
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Press down on this origami frog and the LED eyes start to glow. Release it, and the frog will leap across the table (sometimes even flipping in midair).
Fold Up a Jumping Origami Frog with LED Eyes
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These string racers climb up strings by using friction and alternating tension/slack. Make two and race to the top!
Race a Friend with These Traditional String Climbing Toys
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Travel to the demonstration and hold your message high with ease thanks to this collapsible sign.
Use Tent Poles for a Collapsible Demonstration Sign
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This copter launcher both lights up and flies through the air! This is excerpted from Electricity for Young Makers: Fun and Easy Do-It-Yourself Projects.
Build an LED Copter and Slingshot
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Papercraft is a fantastic way to explore model making. With a steady hand, and bit of patience, you can print, fold, and glue your own Makey mascot!
DIY Posable Papercraft Makey Mascot
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Whizz it around your head and hear it roar!
Print, Cut, and Twirl This Whirly Noisemaker
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Pull the string to see Makey dance and do jumping jacks!
Assemble an Easy Jumping Jack Toy
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Create batty luminaries with just some paper, glue, and vellum. Perfect for lighting a spooky pathway or witchy display.
Cut and Glue a Simple, Spooky Lantern for Halloween
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Platonic solids are great mathematical fun. Print, cut, and fold these shapes for homemade gaming dice — or use as templates for larger shapes!
Howtoons: Cut and Fold Platonic Mathematical Shapes
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You can whip up this super-easy edible paper in as little as 15 minutes and use it for secret messages, decorative foods, and more!
Make Edible Paper in 3 Easy Steps
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You can transform a drawing into a distorted coloring book page that reveals the image in a curved mirror.
Draw Distorted Pictures That Reveal Themselves in a Curved Mirror
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If you know me, you know that I LOVE tulle!
Make a Sweet and Simple Tulle Valentine’s Wreath
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One maker's quest to create an RC Imperial Shuttle from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, with servo-controlled retracting wings.
Watch This Imperial Shuttle Drone Hover Ominously Through the Night

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