How Do You Make Things With Plastic Straws?
Kids bored? Glued to the TV? Need a rainy day project that will engage their imaginations and help their motor skills? Plastic straws can be your answer! Plastic straws are cheap, easily available, nontoxic and safe. Using some commonly available household items, your kids not only can have hours of fun, but also learn a little about geometry and engineering as well. Start your kids’ plastic straw building adventure by challenging them to make two simple shapes: a square and a triangle. Straws can be joined with masking tape or by inserting bent paper clips or pipe cleaners into the ends of the straws to be joined. Next, challenge the children to turn their square and triangle into a cube and a pyramid. When finished, encourage the kids to squash the shapes between two books to demonstrate the inherent strength of building with triangles. Try to make a tower strong enough to support a golf ball. The tower should be at least three levels high. The tower can be made out of cubes or trian
